Tech billionaires promise AI abundance underwritten by a basic income. Run South Africa’s budget and the thesis unravels.
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Permits are secured but the project has yet to break ground, with finer details of the plan still undisclosed.
Palo Alto CIO Meerah Rajavel tells TechCentral why going slow on AI is no longer an option for security teams.
Emile Burger is stepping down as CEO of Tarsus Distribution. He had been in the role for just 14 months.
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Icasa has slammed companies that have reportedly been selling Starlink satellite internet terminals in South Africa.
eMedia has blamed the impact of load shedding and other external factors for a weaker financial performance.
Takealot Group produced a resilient half-year performance, only dampened by parent Naspers’s reporting in US dollars.
Naspers has reported a jump in half-year profit, boosted by its e-commerce businesses and China’s Tencent.
Troubled state-owned electricity monopoly Eskom was on Wednesday forced to ramp up daytime load shedding.
The Cybertruck hasn’t even hit the market yet, and Elon Musk already is lamenting that Tesla has dug its own grave.
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Bill Gates raised more than $1-billion in corporate funding for Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, drawing on fellow billionaires to rally support for some of the world’s most demanding clean-energy projects.
Apple burnished its streaming TV credentials on Sunday as Ted Lasso scored the Emmy award for best comedy, and Netflix landed its biggest television award to date with a best drama win for The Crown.
The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts splashed down in the Atlantic on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit.
Vodacom affiliate Safaricom has submitted a proposal to Kenya Power for the installation of a $300-million smart meter system at the utility.
Telkom has signalled it’s ready for a serious fight with its bigger rivals, this week taking the wraps off aggressively priced, 4G/LTE data-led mobile packages for both prepaid and contract customers that look set to have its bigger rivals
Let’s accept the point of departure: mobile contract packages are broken. There are too many bundled voice minutes hardly anyone depletes and an infinitely higher number of completely useless SMSes. Data bundles are almost an after-thought
