Absa says customers who hand banking credentials to an AI agent may be held liable, as local banks keep outside agents out.
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MediaTek will be able to sell the desktop CPU chip it has developed with Nvidia.
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The global smartphone market had its worst third quarter since 2014 as economic headwinds pushed consumers to delay discretionary purchases.
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BMW’s commitment to prioritising hydrogen has become an increasingly outlier position in the automotive world.
Adobe is tweaking its most famous product to work more like the design tool it committed $20-billion to acquire.
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The South African Revenue Service has issued a media release for South African resident travellers returning to South Africa with personal effects such as laptops, iPads, cellphones, golf clubs, cameras and

































