Nominations for the Channel Achiever of the Year must be in by 8 February.

To prevent platform failures, financial services firms must shift testing focus from the vendor core to their customisaptions, says Tristan Brown, senior solutions consultant at Inspired Testing.

Agentic AI introduces reasoning and autonomy and can carry out multi-step tasks with minimal human input, says IBA Group South Africa.

In 2026, success hinges on maturing data/AI efforts with scalable architectures, augmented analytics and robust governance, says Andreas Bartsch, head of innovation and services at PBT Group.

Public sector organisations are moving from experimental to operational cloud use, and the transition is bringing new risks with it, says Muzi Langa, MD of ManTK IT Solutions.

Entries for the Rising Stars, as part of the Wired4Women Awards 2026, must be in by 8 February.

The video sharing app has unveiled a majority US-owned joint venture to secure its US operation.

We visited the Modderfontein smart city site that was once touted to be the “New York of South Africa”.

Nvidia has released three open-source AI models aimed at helping create better weather forecasts, faster.

Ethereum is seeing a structural shift in how institutional exposure is built, with staking moving from a secondary feature into a core component of market design. Fully staked exchange-traded products are now live in Europe, and similar structures are expected in the U.S., as asset managers push for yield-generating exposure rather than passive price tracking. […]

Eskom’s electricity sales are plunging as many of its most valuable customers are increasingly relying on self-generation.

For years, the dominant mindset among Bitcoin and XRP investors was simple: buy, hold, and wait for the next major market cycle. That approach worked well during periods of rapid expansion. But as markets have matured, and consolidation phases have grown longer, a different behavior is beginning to surface. Rather than waiting indefinitely for price […]

Last week, a UN report declared that the world has entered an era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ with many human water systems past the point at which they can be restored to former levels. To find out what this could look like, Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, who has been reporting on Iran’s severe water crisis. And Mohammad Shamsudduha,...

London, UK (PinionNewswire) — UK Financial Ltd today officially announced the listing of MayaFund (MFUND) as an ERC 20 token on CATEX Exchange, effective January 27, 2026. This listing marks an important development in the company’s strategy to integrate regulated digital assets and tokenized real-world assets into the broader financial ecosystem. The listing also precedes […]

As AI companionship platforms gain mainstream attention, user expectations are rapidly evolving beyond scripted chats and surface-level interaction. Today’s audience is actively seeking deeper personalization, emotional continuity, and greater autonomy over how AI companions behave and respond. Within this growing ecosystem, Swipey AI is positioning itself as a platform focused on...

Vetted Prop Firms, the independent trading industry review platform known for analysing and vetting proprietary trading firms, has announced the launch of its sister website, Vetted FX Brokers. The new platform expands the brand’s established review methodology into the forex and crypto brokerage space, where traders are increasingly seeking clarity, transparency, and trustworthy information....

Researchers say artificial intelligence system matches human expert classification about 90% of the time

Experts have created an app that uses artificial intelligence to identify dinosaurs from the footprints left behind after they stomped across the land tens of millions of years ago.

“When we find a dinosaur footprint, we try to do the Cinderella thing and find the foot that matches the...

AIWNN has launched a fully autonomous, AI powered news radio station that broadcasts spoken versions of press releases around the clock, offering continuous access to publicly distributed news content. The platform operates without human hosts or editors. Instead, AIWNN uses automated systems to identify press releases published online and convert them into audio for live […]