TechCentral’s sums suggest a driverless Tesla Cybercab would struggle to pay its way in Sandton.
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The Reserve Bank wants every ATM unbranded and shared. Banks say they’re working with it but won’t discuss detail.
Datatec shareholders took two-thirds of a R7.05-billion special dividend in new shares instead of cash.
Five questions every business should answer before putting AI to work, from a veteran South African AI researcher.
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MTN South Africa is beefing up security at customer touchpoints in an effort to fight fraud and make its services more efficient.
WhatsApp is introducing a range of upgrades designed to fight criminal scammers and other forms of fraud on the platform.
OpenAI has released two open-weight language models optimised to run on laptops.
Mobile data and fibre services are booming at Telkom, though its IT services business, BCX, is struggling.
Ghana has demanded that the local unit of MultiChoice Group to reduce subscription fees by 30% by 7 August.
Capitec is muscling in on the remittance market through a partnership with the fintech Mama Money.
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The US views China through an angry red mist, operating under misconceptions that makes it harder to get policy right.
Huawei’s cloud services business and a resurgent smartphone unit have helped mitigate the fallout from US sanctions.
An experiment is making scientists suspect they are missing something big in their understanding of physics.
Bitcoin may be closer to bursting out of a period of unusually low volatility if chart patterns and the token’s history are any guide.
The growing compensation packages are a dramatic shift for a group of workers who were once confined to obscurity in the IT department, little more than an afterthought to senior management.
In the wake of the El Paso, Texas mass shooting on 3 August that left 22 dead and dozens injured, a familiar trope has re-emerged: often, when a young man is the shooter, people try to blame the tragedy on violent videogames.
