
Negotiations over ‘historic’ US-UK tech deal stall
When the partnership was unveiled in September the UK government said it would “shape the futures of millions of people”
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When the partnership was unveiled in September the UK government said it would “shape the futures of millions of people”

Rubicon’s head of e-mobility Hilton Musk believes that paying to charge an EV in public should be as simple as paying for fuel.
Three Democrats are seeking information from tech firms about the growing energy use of data centers and the utility bills of individuals and other businesses.

2025 has been a year of upheaval at South Africa’s biggest pay-TV service, DStv, whose parent company was taken over by a foreign broadcasting giant.

The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out
• Mia Mottley is the prime minister of Barbados
The timing is brutal. Just as the world celebrates the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Paris climate agreement this month, new evidence shows that the world is crashing through the main defence that was...

The Mojaloop Foundation and the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), in collaboration with Singapore-based ThitsaWorks and The AfricaNenda Foundation, today announces the launch of the Liberian Inclusive Instant Payments System (IIPS), a modern real-time interoperable payments platform powered by Mojaloop, the open-source payments infrastructure built to advance digital financial inclusion.

In today’s newsletter: As species across the world struggle to keep pace with global warming, how do we report the rare glimmers of hope without downplaying the accelerating ecological crisis?
Good morning. Amid the constant drumbeat of bleak news about the planet’s environment and the accelerating climate emergency, the occasional bright spot still emerges. One example came last week,...

South Africa’s electricity ministry selected seven groups of companies as pre-qualified bidders for the country’s R440 billion transmission-grid expansion program.

The call screening app is having a dismal 2025.

Here are some of the best early festive season Christmas deals available to South African shoppers.

First new treatments for sexually transmitted disease in decades approved by US Food and Drug Administration as number of cases worldwide surge to 82m
The first new treatments for gonorrhoea in decades could be a “huge turning point” in efforts to combat the rise of superbug strains of the bacteria, researchers have said.
Gonorrhoea is on the rise around the world, with more than 82m infections...

We all know eating too much sugar is bad for our health – but would we be better off replacing it with artificial sweetener? It’s a question Science Weekly listener Marion posed recently and, as Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample, the answer is complicated. She explains what the science says about sugar v sweeteners with the help of Prof Havovi Chichger, from Anglia Ruskin University, and...

MyBroadband homepage takeovers give brands unmatched exposure across South Africa’s leading ICT news platform.
Ford Motor said the costs come from its decision to make fewer electric vehicles than it had planned and more hybrids that use both gasoline engines and batteries.
The U.S. Tech Force is aiming to hire about 1,000 top-level technical employees and supervisors to join federal agencies and work on projects related to artificial intelligence and modernization.

SAN FRANCISCO – December 15, 2025 (PinionNewswire) — Gen Z thrives on sharing holiday deals, gifts, and moments online. But this year, many are finding it harder to manage money across traditional and digital worlds amid rising costs and life transitions. Bluwhale, the AI-powered financial platform, delivers a solution embraced by Gen Z in particular: […]
The data centers used for work on artificial intelligence can cost tens of billions to build. Tech giants are finding ways to avoid being on the hook for some of those costs.

We often hear that money makes the world go round. While the stock market gets all the glory, there is a much quieter, yet significantly larger giant operating in the shadows. This is the Foreign Exchange, or FX, market. It is the place where national economies are constantly weighed against each other. It goes far […]
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.

A young engineer who would one day become CEO of SAA and one of the fathers of the Internet installed South Africa’s first link to the ARPANET more than 50 years ago.

The child’s was trying to watch Diary of a Wimpy Kid – but a film with “strong sex and sex references” played instead.