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A new survey finds 89% of organisations have curbed AI use cases as running costs keep climbing.
The Information Regulator has fined FNB R1-million after its app exposed 88 home loan applications.
South Africa outscores Germany, the US and the UK in a new electrification index. But the country is doing poorly in EV adoption.
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Icasa has cleared the sale of Telkom’s masts and towers business, Swiftnet, to a private equity consortium led by Actis.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Apple of using conflict minerals in its supply chain.
A new call centre facility in Paarl, built by Sigma Connected Group, will serve energy and financial services clients in the UK.
Mysterious “drones” over the US are fuelling conspiracies faster than they fly. This and more in today’s Bookmarks.
Takealot, has hired thousands of personal shoppers to help it penetrate townships and rural areas.
Among 37 countries studied in a new report, South Africa ranks as one of the worst countries for digital readiness.
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Sony plans to make two million units of the PlayStation VR2 headset by March next year, setting an ambitious outlook.
Pope Francis, who has often said people should limit their use of cellphones, granted a private audience on Monday to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Tesla’s famously focused chief executive, Elon Musk, faced one question at the company’s AI Day event on Friday that momentarily stumped him.
Tencent has lost its title as China’s biggest company, the latest sign of how far regulatory risk and dimming growth prospects have set back the country’s tech industry.
This month, the European Union will embark on an expansive effort to give people more control over their data online. Known as the General Data Protection Regulation, it’s ambitious, well-intentioned and largely wrongheaded
In late April, the top federal cybersecurity agency, US-Cert, announced that Russian hackers had attacked Internet-connected devices throughout the US, including network routers in private homes. Most

































