The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, Nasa will this week present the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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.
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Intel’s decision to consider outsourcing manufacturing heralds the end of an era in which the company, and the US, dominated the semiconductor industry.
Shares of Intel slumped and its rivals surged on Friday after the US chip maker signalled it may give up manufacturing its own components after falling far behind schedule developing its newest technology.
Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in talks to raise new capital at a valuation of US$44-billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Garmin has entered a second day of wide-ranging outages in a possible ransomware attack. The issue affected the firm’s website and call centres, including its ability to receive calls, e-mails and online chats.
Things used to be simple: a life with MultiChoice or a life without it. But South African television viewers will soon be spoilt for choice, even if some options are more appealing than others — and some a lot more
In 2014, 1 215 rhinos were killed in South Africa for their horns, which end up in Asia as supposed cures for a variety of ailments. An estimated 30 000 African elephants were slaughtered last year for their tusks to be turned into trinkets. The world loses three rhinos a
