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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Capitec’s mobile virtual network operator, Capitec Connect, has soared past the one million customer mark.
A new, R300-million fund has been launched to invest seed capital in promising tech start-ups in South Africa.
Telkom has argued that data rollover and time-based bundles are key to its ability to compete.
MTN has argued that competitive market forces are already doing what Icasa aims to achieve through regulation.
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A disastrous app update in May torpedoed customer trust in Sonos and caused the company to cut staff.
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Hackers stole the e-mail addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said.
Sim Wong Hoo, who founded Creative Technology in Singapore before sparring with Apple, has died at the age of 67.
Amazon.com is laying off more than 18 000 employees, a significantly bigger number than previously planned.
Tencent’s performance reflects optimism that China’s economic growth can find its way back to where it was before lockdowns.
More than a decade into the era of prevalent social networks and smartphones, people still have no way to make informed choices about how to safely conduct their lives online.
Telecommunications carriers have long grumbled that they spend a fortune building the world’s data networks only to watch the US technology giants reap most of the benefits. Now they fear Silicon Valley will take away their customers, too.
