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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Mobile games publisher, Cape Town-based Carry1st, has raised more than R300-million in a series-A “extension” round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Ethiopian Airlines Group will ramp up investment in cargo services and infrastructure and is looking to become a logistics hub for Africa’s growing e-commerce market.
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Standard Bank Group said 99% of its transaction volumes in South Africa are now cashless, a trend that has helped it to cut costs.
South Africa must embark on a “just energy transition” to stimulate greater investment as a way to to overcome electricity shortages, said President Cyril Ramaphosa.
South Africa’s upstart lenders are leveraging their low-cost advantage to challenge the dominance of bigger and more established rivals, according to a report.
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The US government is weighing new limits on sales of chips and other vital components to China’s Huawei Technologies, sparking another furious round of lobbying by technology companies.
Intel has bought Habana Labs, an Israeli start-up that develops chips for artificial intelligence applications, for about $2-billion to bolster its efforts in the fast-growing market for AI silicon.
China’s ambassador threatened Germany with retaliation if it excludes Huawei Technologies as a supplier of 5G wireless equipment, citing the millions of vehicles German car makers sell in China.
US President Donald Trump signed off on a phase-one trade deal with China, averting the 15 December introduction of a new wave of US tariffs on about $160-billion of consumer goods from the Asian nation.
South Africans could soon find themselves having to wrestle with a new type of electrical plug following the adoption of an apparently much safer standard for plugs and sockets. SANS 164-2 was introduced as the “preferred standard” for electrical plugs and sockets by the South
HTC, Sony, Samsung, LG, Apple, Nokia, Huawei. The world’s big smartphone makers are all expected to unveil new flagship devices in 2014, many of them in the next few months. But what can consumers look forward to?
