Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
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An 18-person Cape Town shop has helped engineer the largest crowdfunded gaming campaign in Kickstarter history.
Home affairs has suspended two senior officials after AI ‘hallucinations’ were found in its new immigration white paper.
South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on 4 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
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The electricity utility lost 10 generating units at the weekend but has said it is making good progress in restoring them to service.
Eskom implemented stage-6 load shedding on Sunday after multiple generating units at Camden tripped.
AI tools like GitHub Copilot are empowering non-programmers to write code, solve real-world problems and enhance productivity across professions.
After a lull of a almost three weeks, load shedding has once again made an unwelcome return.
Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that stores information in an exotic state of matter.
The move by Altvest, which emulates US company MicroStrategy, will “fully comply with relevant financial regulations”.
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Elon Musk said he thinks China is interested in a cooperative international framework on AI.
Bitcoin missed out on a rally in global markets sparked by cooling US inflation, triggering caution about its outlook.
The Federal Trade Commission will appeal a ruling that Microsoft can go forward with its Activision Blizzard deal.
India’s space agency is readying to launch a rocket as soon as Friday that will attempt to land a rover on the moon.
Advocates and opponents of breaking up big technology firms are falling prey to some serious misconceptions
The smartphone era is only just over a decade old, but the pocket-sized computers at the heart of that societal transformation are only really possible because of another technology: lithium-ion batteries.
