America’s technology giants will not face heavy-handed regulations in Europe’s digital rule overhaul, sources said.
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Silicon is transforming battery and charging technology, leading to thinner devices, larger capacities and faster charging.
Physical AI dominated CES this week, yet questions persist over affordability, usefulness and mass market demand.
Google is rolling out a wave of AI features in Gmail, aiming to turn the e-mail service into a proactive “inbox assistant”.
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Online shopping in South Africa will reach R55-billion in 2022, a 30% increase from the R42.3-billion the previous year, according to new research.
Through another auction, Icasa plans to license additional spectrum that’s suitable for 4G, 5G and future mobile broadband technologies.
The change, long resisted by Apple but now being forced on it, could be a boon not only for iPhone users but for the company, too.
South Africa will have a robust electric-power supply system only once its electricity generation, transmission, distribution and control functions are separated and independently run.
The top industry executive has warned that extreme load shedding is having a severe impact the telecommunications sector and on consumers.
Bitcoin ends the year slumped in an alleyway, robbed of its cocktail of cheap money and leveraged bets, and shunned by the establishment.
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The European Union and the UK are preparing to launch “in-depth” investigations into Nvidia’s proposed US$40-billion acquisition of chip designer ARM from SoftBank Group, the Financial Times reported.
US President Joe Biden’s nominee for commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, said she knows of “no reason” why Huawei Technologies and other Chinese companies shouldn’t remain on a restricted trade list.
A surprise chat between tech billionaire Elon Musk and Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on new audio-based social network Clubhouse has helped propel the app to the top of the start-up charts.
Kia Motors jumped as much as 14.5% after a local media report that Apple will invest the equivalent of $3.6-billion as part of a collaboration with the Korean car maker on making electric vehicles.
South Africa’s highly successful programme to procure renewable energy from independent power producers skidded to a halt after the Eskom board decided to stop issuing so-called budget quotes, required for financial close on these projects
From satellites, to autonomous solar-powered drones, or balloons, there have been plenty of ideas recently on how to connect up the world. Facebook, Google, large international organisations, national governments, even Bono, have laid out ideas of a near future in which we are all hooked into the network
