AI rivals will be allowed on WhatsApp for a year, Meta said, aiming to head off a possible order from EU antitrust regulators.
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Increases range from 6% to 10% depending on the service, with uncapped LTE and 5G plans spared.
Geopolitics, rising infrastructure costs and growing incidents of cyber fraud are top of the GSMA’s agenda.
Apple retailer iStore has opened pre-orders for Apple’s new MacBook Neo at R11 999 for the 256GB model.
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The Special Investigating Unit is poised to launch an investigation into the State IT Agency.
South Africa plans to offer Elon Musk a workaround of BEE laws ahead of a high-pressure meeting with US President Donald Trump.
High subscription rates are undermining South Africans’ propensity to save for a rainy day, says Standard Bank.
South Africa has a big problem with the overproduction of plastic Sim cards.
Microsoft is expanding its AI offerings by partnering with xAI, Meta and others.
Capitec Connect, South Africa’s largest MVNO, is working to launch a post-paid offering by the end of the year.
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Apple added nearly $1-trillion in market value this year. Such gains in 2024 will be harder to come by.
Social media platform X and X Pro suffered outages globally early on Thursday, according to Downdetector.com.
Sony is seeing strong momentum for its PlayStation 5 console, with lifetime sales exceeding 50 million units.
Electrified vehicles accounted for over 47.6% of all new passenger car registrations in the EU as of November.
Deepfakes are here to stay. Managing disinformation and protecting the public will be more challenging than ever as artificial intelligence gets more powerful.
As the threat of a Covid-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt a sense of apprehension about what would happen when it reached Africa. However, the apocalyptic predictions were simply wrong.
