Icasa must rule out private companies storing fingerprints and let operators compete to stop fraud.
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Higher turnout suggests ANC voters showed up but backed other parties, says Oxford Economics Africa.
Gene editing and AI are behind several of this year’s medical advances, but not all.
EXSA, already licensed to trade locally, now wants to move electricity across Southern African borders.
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OpenAI’s Sora is finally here, and it’s mind-blowing, according to reports. This and more in today’s edition of Bookmarks.
Google has claimed it can now solve a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe.
US President-elect Donald Trump must decide which bothers him more: Europe or Big Tech.
Primetime viewership statistics show that soapies, news and sports are why South Africans watch TV.
WhatsApp is evolving from a messaging app into an “everything app” under Meta. This and more in today’s Bookmarks.
To execute vital structural changes, we need to address the three real constraints to South Africa’s growth.
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Apple will appeal a Brazilian order banning it from selling iPhones without a charger, pushing back on claims it provides an incomplete product.
Google will on 6 October launch the Pixel 7 and its first smartwatch as the company prepares to take on a new line of rival products from Apple.
Nigeria suspended the implementation of a new telecommunications tax meant to help reduce the nation’s budget deficit.
Data centre operators may not deserve the premium valuations attached to them given mounting cost pressure and intense competition.
For centuries, humans have wondered about the possibility of other Earths orbiting distant stars. Perhaps some of these alien worlds would harbour strange forms of life or have unique and telling histories or futures
If you are one of 2.2bn Facebook users worldwide, you have probably been alarmed by the recent coverage of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a story that began when The Guardian revealed 50m (now thought to be 87m) user
