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Google is rolling out a wave of AI features in Gmail, aiming to turn the e-mail service into a proactive “inbox assistant”.
Silicon is transforming battery and charging technology, leading to thinner devices, larger capacities and faster charging.
America’s technology giants will not face heavy-handed regulations in Europe’s digital rule overhaul, sources said.
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Eskom will implement stage-4 power cuts until at least Thursday, 14 July. Sunday’s load shedding will also be worse than previously communicated.
Hundreds of workers at Takealot’s Montague Gardens warehouse embarked on an unprotected strike on Friday.
Eskom expects to downgrade load shedding over the next few days with generation units set to return to service.
A court in Kenya has frozen more than $40-million in accounts belonging to Africa-focused payments giant Flutterwave.
The Kusile power station in Mpumalanga will burn as much as 15 million tons of coal a year until it is eventually shut down in 2073.
Exclusive | The SABC has accused SuperSport, SA Rugby and the Premier Soccer League of anticompetitive and exclusionary behaviour.
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Huawei Technologies overtook Samsung Electronics in global smartphone shipments in the second quarter after Chinese consumer spending bounced back from a Covid-19 trough, according to Canalys.
At Wednesday’s antitrust hearing, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to tell the US congress his company is an American success story crucial in winning an Internet arms race against China. TikTok’s CEO is already striking back.
Google and Samsung Electronics are negotiating a major deal that would give Google products more prominence on the South Korean company’s smartphones.
Spotify said on Wednesday that music streaming demand had rebounded from the coronavirus-related weakness it saw at the start of the quarter and its paid subscribers reached 138 million.
A new arrival into an extremely competitive market, the first Ubuntu-powered phone has finally gone on sale in Europe — two years after a failed attempt to generate crowdfunding nevertheless raised US$12m. A sleek, polished rectangle, it appears much like other
The rise of taxi service Uber in South Africa has its competitors crying foul and alleging a number of violations of the law. These include allegations that the company may be flouting foreign exchange

































