
Radical rethink for South Africa’s national AI policy
Government will provide guidelines and leave individual sectors to write their own artificial intelligence strategies.
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Government will provide guidelines and leave individual sectors to write their own artificial intelligence strategies.

If your router is short on ports, you can add more with one of the best Ethernet switches. These are my top picks from what I’ve tested.

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

Veteran medical adviser likely to face questions over disputed ‘lab leak’ theory in investigation seen by scientists as ‘vilification and harassment’ of 85-year-old
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Senators are expected to question Anthony Fauci, the former veteran director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid),...
The charges against Pavel Durov reflected an ongoing fight over one of the most popular messaging and media apps in the country.

It’s the biggest liability on the South African tech balance sheet – and it keeps compounding.

Startup Zanskar has created one of the most productive geothermal wells in the US at a power plant that had been in decline for years.

The regulator said a fee of between £237,500 to £712,500 per megawatt should be charged for upcoming projects.

Geneva – FIFA’s announcement on Tuesday of a plan to create a $20 billion commercial subsidiary and sell minority stakes to private investors, including a firm linked to the family of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has ignited a fierce controversy in the world of football. The move, aimed at unlocking billions more for global […]

A second company is drawn into the rogue AI attack on Hugging Face, with Modal clarifying its cloud platform was used as a launchpad, not breached.

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet.

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

South Africa’s startup ecosystem is vibrant, but global recognition remains the exception rather than the rule. That is why the recent inclusion of Teach Me 2 in TIME’s World’s Top EdTech Companies 2026 is about more than one business’s success. It demonstrates that a technology company built in South Africa can compete alongside some of […]

In2IT helps companies deploy next-generation network infrastructure that enhances connectivity, operational efficiency and long-term business resilience.

KHIPU Networks is hosting a private executive roundtable on the ‘Journey to the SOC’ in Cape Town on 3 September.

Turning streams of events into immediate business decisions should be accessible to the people closest to the business, says cloudandthings.io.

The solution enables users to build automated workflows, integrate applications and deploy AI-powered processes on dedicated infrastructure hosted in South Africa.
The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: [I]n a new study published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center in the U.S. have revealed that we can put certain tasks on autopilot in a way that enables something closer to true multitasking. Driving is the perfect example: When you take your test, your entire mental and physical...

One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.

Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global end-to-end IoT solutions provider, today announces the launch of the FCM665D, a high-performance Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth module with edge AI processing capabilities, designed for smart home, smart building and industrial IoT devices.