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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Absa Group’s new CEO, Kenny Fihla, is aiming to turn the bank’s retail unit into the biggest in South Africa.
South Africa should embrace its own technological solutions before begging abroad, writes Sipho Dikweni.
South Africa has asked for more time to negotiate a trade deal with US President Donald Trump’s administration.
US President Donald Trump has accused Elon Musk of benefiting excessively from government EV subsidies.
Myriad factors have contributed to the “slow” adoption of digital payment rails in South Africa.
On 18 June, something remarkable happened on the bitcoin blockchain. And the messaging left little to interpretation.
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A glitch has cast a US start-up’s plan to land the spacecraft on the moon at the end of February into doubt.
HPE is in talks to buy Juniper Networks in a deal worth about $13-billion, a source said.
The iPhone, which was sucked out of a Boeing 737 Max jet’s cabin, remained in functioning condition.
Elon Musk’s reported drug use has Tesla board members facing a familiar quandary.
Just as the US government starts looking to rein in, or even break up, big technology companies in the belief they have too much power, China is going in the opposite direction.
The cure for bad information is good information. If people are sometimes persuaded by the false, that’s a risk attendant upon the proper practice of democracy. By Stephen L Carter.
