Silicon is transforming battery and charging technology, leading to thinner devices, larger capacities and faster charging.
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Apple led the market with a 20% share, the largest among the top five brands, according to Counterpoint Research.
South Africa’s electricity supply has entered 2026 in its strongest position in at least five years, Eskom has said.
China’s AI sector is gaining confidence and risk appetite, but chip-making constraints still blunt ambitions to rival the US.
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Showmax has partnered with South African consumer electronics manufacturer QVWi to launch new streaming hardware.
Cloud migration projects are making way in South African banks’ IT budgets for AI and cybersecurity.
A software bug in CrowdStrike’s quality control system led to the update that crashed computers globally last week.
Interest in hybrid and electric cars is skyrocketing in South Africa, driven by the steady decline in prices.
Meta has debuted a new AI model that CEO Mark Zuckerberg said rivals similar offerings from OpenAI and Google.
Eskom plans to compete with private power developers by replacing coal with cleaner technologies over the next decade.
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Spotify is planning layoffs as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the plans.
US technology stocks are about to hit their next hurdle when earnings season gets under way in the coming week: vanishing profits.
Google parent Alphabet is eliminating about 12 000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, the company said on Friday.
The lending unit of crypto firm Genesis filed on Thursday for US bankruptcy protection from creditors, toppled by a market rout.
While most missions are designed to look at the surface or atmosphere of planetary bodies, InSight’s goal is to look deep beneath the surface.
For more than 30 years, Intel has dominated chip-making, producing the most important component in the bulk of the world’s computers. That run is now under threat.
