South Africa ranks second globally for education spending but near the bottom for digital skills and outcomes.
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Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.
The modern Edge is a genuinely good web browser. Microsoft’s heavy-handed tactics are squandering this advantage.
Researcher BMIT forecasts 5G will account for two-thirds of all residential wireless broadband connections by 2029.
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AI-generated content is flooding YouTube, boosting views and ad revenue, but blurring lines between reality and fiction.
Intel is going to end the year with a workforce that is over a fifth smaller than last year.
Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when a software failure knocked users offline.
South African satellite and space innovators in the Western Cape university town stand out in a recent Nasa report.
The security, warehousing and logistics sectors in South Africa are already making extensive use of in-camera AI.
South Africa’s national treasury is investigating a link to the global attacks on Microsoft’s SharePoint software.
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Meta Platforms issued its first dividend days ahead of flagship social network Facebook’s 20th anniversary.
Elon Musk suffered one of the biggest legal losses in US history this week in a case brought by an unlikely opponent.
Meta Platforms plans to deploy a new version of a custom chip aimed at supporting its AI push and reducing its reliance on Nvidia.
President Nayib Bukele is pressing ahead with his plan to make his country a cryptocurrency haven.
Elon Musk’s decision to invest US$1.5-billion of Tesla’s cash in bitcoin is financial dynamite that unites two speculative bubbles. There’s plenty to suggest the move is inadvisable
Twitter is building a subscription product as a way to ease its dependence on advertising – a plan that has taken on a heightened priority given the pandemic and pressure from activist investors to accelerate growth.
