South Africa ranks second globally for education spending but near the bottom for digital skills and outcomes.
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Government’s draft AI policy has proposed the creation of seven new institutions to govern AI in South Africa.
Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.
Researcher BMIT forecasts 5G will account for two-thirds of all residential wireless broadband connections by 2029.
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The EFF has said that it will “never allow” Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service to be launched in South Africa.
Apple is planning an ambitious pipeline of new products for release during the first half of 2026.
Nissan is still committed to growing in Africa, with plans to introduce new SUVs and new variants of existing models.
Real-time monitoring of spam calls is not practical, but international experience suggests more can be done.
Ten years after buying control of software house Britehouse, NTT Data has sold a chunk of the business.
Experts believe the nascent satellite market will be shaped by a variety of forces as it develops and expands.
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Netflix isn’t planning to launch an app for Apple’s Vision Pro headset, marking a high-profile snub of the new technology.
Samsung is introducing a range of AI features in its premium Galaxy S24 models as part of its strategy to attract buyers.
The last time many of the countries that have elections this year went to the polls, there was no ChatGPT.
China regulators are reportedly conducting a cybersecurity review of Shein’s data handling and sharing practices.
Salesforce.com’s US$27.7-billion takeover of Slack Technologies represents co-founder Marc Benioff’s most aggressive effort yet to challenge reigning software marker Microsoft.
This month, an intercontinental ballistic missile was fired in the general direction of Hawaii. During its descent a few minutes later, still outside the Earth’s atmosphere, it was struck by another missile that destroyed it.
