
Tech at centre of SA’s border control over Easter
Tech-driven border management curbs illegal crossings and leads to arrest of more facilitators aiding illegal migration.
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Tech-driven border management curbs illegal crossings and leads to arrest of more facilitators aiding illegal migration.

Stafford Masie steps down as African Bitcoin Company chairman, but stays on as executive director amid a broader board reshuffle.

SportyTV said on Monday that it has acquired pay rights to broadcast all 104 matches of the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

AgileSP operates multiple points of presence inside Teraco’s data centres – JB1, JB3, DB1, CT1 and CT2.

PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for them
A new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that was recently introduced by the NHS has been announced.
Researchers at London’s Institute of Cancer Research and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin have developed the...

Direct-to-device technology threatens to pit satellite and mobile operators against each other in the years ahead.

HOSTAFRICA has unveiled its dedicated NVIDIA RTX PRO GPU servers at Digital Parks Africa’s (DPA) Samrand data centre, launching its fully localised GPU‑as‑a‑Service offering. The launch brought together industry leaders, tech partners and customers for a first-hand look at the platform in action, including live demonstrations of the high-performance infrastructure now available locally....

UNIVEN is using its CyberSecureTech Hackathon to equip students with practical cyber security skills while driving innovation in SA’s digital economy.
Anthropic recently “hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and the business world” for a two-day summit , reports the Washington Post:Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said. The wide-ranging discussions also covered how...

When implemented effectively, modern digital identity creates aligned benefits across society, providing easier access to services.

Picture a rainy Wednesday morning in Sandton, sometime in the near future. A claims handler opens their laptop, and right away, things move much faster than they used to. For every new email, the company’s artificial intelligence system (AI) has already drafted a suggested reply. The inbox is lighter too, because a public chatbot, which […]

The Basalt SUV-Coupé blends intuitive tech, practical usability and design-led thinking for South African drivers.

The integration of digital record systems is a legal imperative, says Mohammed Vachiat, chief commercial officer at Konica Minolta South Africa.

ERP systems have become intelligent platforms that not only manage business processes but actively optimise them, says Adinga.

The GIGS mobile offering allows the primary account holder to activate and manage multiple SIM cards from one central profile.

A trio of tricky teasers
Tanya Khovanova is a luminary of the recreational mathematics scene. She is one of its foremost bloggers and also runs Number Gossip, a site where you can sumbit a number and she “will tell you everything you want to know about it but were afraid to ask.”
Tanya has now written her first book, Mathematical Puzzles and Curiosities, in collaboration with two other puzzle...

Six months on from the Canal+ takeover, the question is: what kind of company is MultiChoice now?

The new moon will be particularly beautiful – at just 2.6 days old, only about 7.5% of its visible surface will be illuminated
The brilliant beacon of planet Venus is now unmistakeable in the evening sky, appearing to the naked eye well before the twilight has fully faded into night.
This week, the planet will be joined by a young crescent moon on the nights of 18 and 19 April. The chart shows...
“Early Sunday morning, a car stopped and appears to have fired a gun at the Russian Hill home of OpenAI’s CEO,” reportsThe San Francisco Standard, citing reports from the local police department: The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrest of two suspects, Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, who were booked for negligent discharge… [The person in the passenger seat] put...
“Robotic bird decoys are being deployed at Grand Teton National Park,” reports Interesting Engineering, “to influence the behavior of real sage grouse and help restore a declining population.”. Robotics mentor Gary Duquette describes the machines as “kind of a Frankenbird.” (SFGate shows one of the robot birds charging up with a solar panel… “Recorded breeding calls are played at the scene,...
A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.