Several Chinese rivals have crossed the trillion-parameter mark, but ByteDance’s effort dwarfs all of them.
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M-Net Movies 1, Mzansi Bioskop, Mzansi Music and kykNET Lekker close on 16 September as four sport channels launch.
Generation fell 8.1% in June to the weakest reading in seven years, while Eskom’s fleet ran better than at any point since 2017.
Growth of more than 30% in Eutelsat’s low-Earth orbit satellite business has offset declines in its legacy video operations.
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Nedbank has acquired Durban-based payments fintech iKhokha for R1.65-billion in an all-cash deal.
The Rosebank Mall in Johannesburg has unveiled a gigantic new hybrid energy system. TechCentral toured the facility.
South Africa’s energy and mobility sectors are colliding in transformative ways, writes GoSolr’s Patrick Narbel.
Since TechCentral first published a list of every electric car for sale in South Africa in 2022, it has seen huge changes.
Absa will offer cash back to Shoprite Group customers of up to 60% during a two-month launch phase.
Perplexity AI has made a $34.5-billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Google’s Chrome browser.
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Qualcomm has said its new chip for Windows laptops will be faster at some tasks than Apple’s M-series silicon.
Toyota unveiled a Lexus concept car with a roughly 1 000km range on Wednesday that it aims to roll out by 2026.
Google’s cloud business crawled to its slowest in at least 11 quarters, even as sales at Microsoft’s cloud unit boomed.
A Chinese miner has been accused of violating Namibia’s ban on critical raw mineral exports.
Apple and Google are working together to fight the coronavirus war in a smart and effective way. It may be the first step in turning the tide against the pandemic and moving society back to a more normal life.
The public debate on strategies to tackle Covid-19 often unhelpfully positions health and economic considerations in a diametric fashion – as trade-offs. The two need to be parts of a coherent whole.
