
My Blissful Week as a ‘Do Not Disturb’ Maximalist
I turned off my phone notifications for an entire week. It made me a less disturbed person, but the people closest to me got annoyed.
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL 2026, 18:07

I turned off my phone notifications for an entire week. It made me a less disturbed person, but the people closest to me got annoyed.

The countries commit to innovation-led development, skills exchange and global cooperation.

New research shows routine jobs face the highest automation risk, while hands-on roles remain resilient.

Issam Hijazi launched UpScrolled after users alleged censorship on other platforms. Nine months later, its user base is soaring—while Hijazi tries to catch up with his own success.

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested multiroom mesh systems will get you online in no time.

Investor Bill Ackman plans to merge Sparc Holdings with Universal Music and list the combined entity in New York.

Nearly two years after its launch, FNB Connect’s eSIM offering now makes up 10% of the mobile virtual network operator’s sales volumes.

Trying to scale AI on outdated digital foundations is like playing Jenga on a wobbly table: early wins stack up quickly, but as ambition grows, every underlying weakness is magnified. South African organisations are reaching this point with AI. Adoption is accelerating, experimentation is widespread, and productivity gains are visible, yet many are trying to […]

Even before the headset’s release, the workforce at Apple Stores was under duress. Trying to get customers interested in the Vision Pro made it worse.

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I’ve nothing against astronauts or scientific innovation. But what’s the point of Artemis II?
It is absolutely self-evident to me that space exploration is pointless, and the more urgent the crises besetting this planet we live on, the more pointless it becomes. I can see why people got excited about it in the 1960s, back when the world was young and we still thought there might be little green...

The astronauts of Artemis II flew further from Earth than any human beings before them, breaking Apollo 13’s distance record at 1.57pm ET on Monday.
Across a six-hour flyby, on the sixth day of a lunar mission that has reinvigorated Nasa’s space exploration programme, the crew of the Orion spacecraft captured views of the moon’s far side that have never been seen before
Blackouts, broken...

The department’s digitisation project will cover civil services, immigration and other departmental records.

Endeavor South Africa has announced the close of Harvest Fund III at R230 million. This venture fund brings together both entrepreneurs and institutional investors focused on backing and scaling the next generation of high-growth technology businesses across South Africa – and paying their successes forward. Harvest Fund III is a rules-based co-investment fund that invests […]

The bulk of capital is earmarked for later-stage rounds, where South African venture funding has long been thinnest.

Research consistently shows that only around 10% to 20% of training content is transferred into on-the-job behaviour, says Antonios Christodoulou, founder and CEO of Cyber Dexterity.

The summit will engage 1 500 students, more than 200 educators, 75 schools and 15 districts across Gauteng, says Seseko.
The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.

Americans flocked to prediction markets last year. Now, it’s time to pay taxes on winnings. How do you do that? Great question.

Acclaimed South Africa movie director Donovan Marsh tells the TechCentral Show that AI will fundamentally transform the way films are made.

The global energy crisis caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is only the beginning of the economic cost of the war with Iran. I study how institutions affect businesses and supply chains, and I expect food prices to rise next, with high prices lasting even after whatever point hostilities end. Along with […]