Several Chinese rivals have crossed the trillion-parameter mark, but ByteDance’s effort dwarfs all of them.
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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.
M-Net Movies 1, Mzansi Bioskop, Mzansi Music and KykNet Lekker close on 16 September as four sport channels launch.
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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For Cape Town filmmaker Kate D’hotman, connecting with audiences comes naturally. Far more daunting is speaking with others.
The newly appointed CEO of South Africa’s biggest bank by customers has a unique problem on his hands.
AI-generated content is flooding YouTube, boosting views and ad revenue, but blurring lines between reality and fiction.
Intel is going to end the year with a workforce that is over a fifth smaller than last year.
Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when a software failure knocked users offline.
South African satellite and space innovators in the Western Cape university town stand out in a recent Nasa report.
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Chip maker Intel plans an initial public offering for its programmable chip unit in the next two to three years.
Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for quantum dot technology.
Jony Ive, the legendary Apple veteran, is turning his attention to a different kind of device: a mobile blender for fruit smoothies.
Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The skills crisis in the cybersecurity field in South Africa is so severe that the major banks have reached a “gentleman’s agreement” not to poach each other’s staff for fear of exacerbating the situation.
The largest decline in reliable electricity supply in recent years occurred in South Africa, but much of the rest of the continent is in far worse shape as electrification projects have stalled.

































