UN human rights chief Volker Türk says advanced AI could pose an existential risk to humanity, and is calling for agreed red lines.
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Huawei and Xiaomi have launched new flagship foldable smartphones, stepping up competition in the premium handset market.
M-Net and KykNet are leaving the confines of Premium, cricket is dropping to R399 and Compact Plus is disappearing altogether.
Mncane Mthunzi takes the role in an industry whose US exports have collapsed 74% and whose NEV transition is stalling.
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With the move out of academia into industry, the AI genie is out of the bottle, writes Anchor Capital’s David Gibb.
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, the first good candidates to be “dark stars” have been identified.
Africa’s biggest harbour will be partly owned and operated by the Philippines’ International Container Terminal Services.
Jan Oberholzer has quit the state-owned utility and will leave at the end of the month.
Around a decade after Siri and Alexa burst onto the scene, a new wave of AI helpers with greater autonomy is raising the stakes.
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Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has called on employees of its departing Honor subbrand to strive to surpass its parent in a farewell speech as the tech giant sells the budget brand to keep its sanction-hobbled supply chains alive.
Amazon.com’s widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services was back up on Thursday following an outage that affected several users ranging from websites to software providers.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. News leaks that enterprise software giant Salesforce.com is interested in acquiring a trendy tech company. Then its stock falls 5%, erasing billions of market value. Ring any bells?
Shares in Tesla have surged 40% since 16 November, when it was announced the electric car maker would join the S&P 500 in December.
Phones are all around us. When we look up from our own, we see that everyone else is looking down at theirs. Our phones are with us wherever we go, in our pockets, our bags, in our hands. A recent Pew research report outlines the ways that phones have
The UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal has found that South Africa’s Legal Resources Centre’s communications were subjected to unlawful interference by the British government, the































