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Huawei South Africa’s annual Girls in ICT Day gave young women practical skills in areas such as artificial intelligence, coding, and digital entrepreneurship. The day also celebrated their role in the digital economy, not only as future participants but as young innovators who can help shape what comes next. Hosted by Huawei South Africa in […]
Smaller operators are struggling to find tenants while hyperscale operators pull further ahead, according to a new study.
What’s more important in developing effective cyber security strategies – prevention or making sure the cure is in place, in the event of a breach?
Many South Africans have viewed offshore investment as an informal insurance policy to protect their wealth, so they would move their money abroad, buy into the S&P 500 or a global tech fund, and wait for market returns plus a weakening rand to do the rest. For a long time, that delivered easy wins. Today, […]
The Trump administration says it will reimburse energy companies $885 million to cancel two planned offshore wind farms, with the firms in turn agreeing to put money into oil and gas projects instead. “The deals are modeled after a similar agreement last month with the French energy giant TotalEnergies,” notes the New York Times. “TotalEnergies forfeited its leases for two wind projects planned...
The combined platform establishes a unified, compliance-enforced execution layer for digital trade between Malaysia, Singapore, and adjacent trade corridors – connecting a national blockchain backbone with pre-execution policy governance. ZenithBlox Inc. and My Blockchain Infrastructure Sdn. Bhd. (MBISB), the entity behind Malaysia’s national blockchain initiative, today announced the...
Prague, Czech Republic — Littlebit, a Bitcoin-powered micro-saving platform, today announced the official launch of its app, enabling users to automatically accumulate Bitcoin through everyday spending. The app connects directly to the BitDCA ecosystem, where Bitcoin rewards generated from real usage are shared with BDCA token stakers. In just three months, more than 2,500 users have […]
New York, USA As the global housing market shifts toward multi-functional spaces, TERRALUX is officially redefining the “home” from a passive shelter into a high-performance asset. Led by visionary CEO Mayan Metzler, the company has launched its Healing Homes ecosystem—a modular platform designed to optimize human health while simultaneously generating passive income for property owners. […]
Today’s retailers must look to advanced location intelligence and a wealth of data sources to adapt, grow and compete more effectively, says Esri South Africa.
AI and integrated HR systems are becoming essential to cut compliance risk and unlock workforce value, business leaders said.
In a market defined by relentless change, the financial institutions with a clear AI strategy will outdo the competition.
OpenAI has fallen short of its goals for new users and revenue in recent months, according to a new report.
Taylor Swift’s filings are aimed at testing whether trademark law can do what copyright cannot in the AI era.
Positions ‘terminated, effective immediately’, says email to scientists sent on president’s behalf, in move labelled ‘dangerous attack’ on US innovation
The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office “on behalf...
Social media is awash with content about food intolerances and the symptoms to look out for. But figuring out whether you actually have one, and what’s triggering it, is surprisingly difficult. One avenue people are gravitating towards is at-home testing. Madeleine Finlay sits down with health and lifestyle journalist Rebecca Seal to unpick the science behind these tests. Rebecca explains how...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Technology tycoons Elon Musk and Sam Altman are poised to face off in a high-stakes trial revolving around the alleged betrayal, deceit and unbridled ambition that blurred the bickering billionaires’ once-shared vision for the development of artificial intelligence. The trial, which started Monday with jury selection, centers on the...
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers — which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive — published their findings online in a paper titled “The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In January, the European Commission began an initial investigation, known as a specification proceeding, into how Google has implemented AI in the Android operating system. The results are in, and the EU says Android needs to be more open, which is not surprising. Meanwhile, Google says this amounts to “unwarranted intervention,” which is...
BrianFagioli writes: Notepad++ has finally made its way to macOS, and this time it is not through a compatibility layer. A new community-driven port brings the long-standing Windows text editor over as a fully native Mac application, built with Cocoa and compiled for both Apple Silicon and Intel systems. Instead of relying on Wine or similar tools, the project replaces the Windows-specific...
China has blocked Meta’s planned $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, ordering the deal withdrawn after months of scrutiny from both Beijing and Washington. “The decision to prohibit foreign investment in Manus was made in accordance with laws and regulations,” reports CNBC, citing the National Development and Reform Commission. “It added that it has asked the parties involved to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: When the Call Federal Credit Union outside Richmond, Va., was robbed at gunpoint in 2019, the suspect took $195,000 from the bank’s vault and fled before the police arrived. A detective interviewed witnesses and reviewed the bank’s security footage. But with no leads, the officer relied on a so-called geofence warrant to sweep up...