Graduate unemployment in South Africa has risen to 12.2%. The problem is a skills mismatch, not qualifications.
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South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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After years of massive cost overruns, Eskom has announced that the final unit at Kusile has entered commercial operation.
Smartphone buyers eyeing this year’s upgrades may want to pause. A quiet but profound shift is looming in chip manufacturing.
Generative AI threatens music’s legal foundations, demanding urgent new copyright and licensing frameworks.
As cyberattacks and AI risks grow, the digital economy’s fragility has echoes in the 2008 financial crash.
Canal+ has announced sweeping changes to its African operations, just days after finalising its takeover of MultiChoice.
Television in three dimensions is a century-old idea whose time may never come.
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For years, investors have bid up megacap tech shares on the theory that AI will usher in a new era of growth. Now the companies need to prove it.
The new images from the Webb telescope offer new clues on star formation as well as galactic structure and evolution.
Neuralink’s first human patient received an implant from brain-chip start-up Neuralink on Sunday.
Microsoft’s early lead in AI has the company’s stock market value poised to pull decisively ahead of Apple’s in the coming years.
Late on Monday, Uber Technologies announced plans to sell its self-driving unit to start-up Aurora Innovation. It was the right move.
In 2021, hundreds of millions of people will be vaccinated against Covid-19. But the success of that vaccination campaign will depend heavily on public trust that the vaccines are not only effective, but also safe.
