The AI extinction risk may be real, but the cure on offer looks more like the leading labs building a competitive moat.
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The finance minister says workshops and road maps have replaced delivery on technology policy.
JSE-listed fintech Optasia’s own full-year target implies second-half revenue could come in well below the first half.
A stronger rand has absorbed almost all of Apple’s US price increase – but only at the cheaper storage tiers.
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South Africa wants to spend billions of dollars fostering an electric vehicle industry, complicating efforts to finalise an $8.5-billion climate aid package.
The solution to environmental damage is to bring a halt to debt-fuelled consumption, not to point a finger of blame at bitcoin, writes Rob Price.
Eskom said it expects to reduce the intensity of load shedding by midnight, after which a mix of stage-2 and stage-3 cuts will be implemented.
Sasol is partnering steelmaker ArcelorMittal South Africa to explore carbon capture technology and steel production using green hydrogen.
Fast-growing Chinese smartphone and consumer electronics brand Xiaomi has opened its first retail store in South Africa.
South Africa, the world’s 13th biggest source of climate-warming greenhouse gases, will unveil details on how it plans to cut emissions next month.
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Tesla’s market value briefly topped $100-billion for the first time, a threshold that will trigger a huge payout for Elon Musk if he can sustain the feat for months.
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has said the US is “over-concerned” about the Chinese company and its rise in the world of technology.
Naspers affiliate Tencent is planning a major update to its ubiquitous WeChat messaging app to stave off up-and-comer ByteDance and counter the start-up’s growing dominance of short-form video.
Uber Technologies will sell Uber Eats in India to local rival Zomato in a $172-million deal, underscoring the ride-hailing giant’s effort to cut back on loss-making operations.
Cabinet’s decision this month to mandate the use of a control system in the set-top boxes government will subsidise for poorer households has led to a great deal of confusion in South Africa’s broadcasting industry. The decision largely went in favour of e.tv, which has
Here they are, TechCentral’s South African Newsmakers of 2013. These are the individuals, in ascending order from five to one, who we believe were the most newsworthy in the technology and telecommunications space this year, for good reasons and bad
