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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China’s AI sector is gaining confidence and risk appetite, but chip-making constraints still blunt ambitions to rival the US.
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.
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French President Emmanuel Macron said in February that it was a “matter of sovereignty” to create a satellite offering that could rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX. He could now be getting his wish.
The global push to develop lab-grown meat is taking an exotic twist in South Africa, where slaughter-free cuts of springbok, wildebeest and impala could soon be on the menu.
Eskom will suspend scheduled power cuts for the first time in five weeks after the generation system recovered sufficiently.
South Africans are increasingly choosing streaming over satellite TV, Ellies Holdings said on Friday, blaming this in large part for the group swinging to a full-year loss.
RT, the Kremlin-backed television network, is setting up its first Africa bureau as President Vladimir Putin seeks to entrench support on the continent.
The online classifieds website has been acquired by Impresa Capital, the majority shareholder in the Durban-based Ignition Group.
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Tencent, one of Asia’s biggest companies, is little known beyond the tech world. But its WeChat super app has more than a billion users worldwide.
Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth passed $100-billion for the first time on Thursday after Facebook hit a record on optimism about the release of its TikTok competitor Reels.
Washington’s plan to ban certain technologies of Chinese origin is a sign of “madness” in US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, China’s state-backed tabloid Global Times wrote in an editorial on Thursday.
The Trump administration’s move to ban US residents from doing business with Tencent’s WeChat app rippled through Chinese markets, erasing $46-billion from the Internet giant’s market value.
Technology group Pinnacle Holdings will focus on bedding down its African expansion and focusing on company operations as a strategy to rebuild shareholder confidence. Pinnacle CEO Arnold Fourie says
Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and BlackBerry were all victims of disruption. During the 1990s and 2000s, they shepherded the cellphone during its period of take-off into ubiquity. Then in the last five years, they all lost their leadership positions and are now on the
