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Amazon ups the ante in SA video streaming
Amazon Prime Video subscribers paying R79/month will be auto-migrated onto the cheaper R59 Prime bundle.
The doctor who mends broken brains: why there is room for hope after a stroke or head injury
The neurologist Orlando Swayne doesn’t suggest everyone can recover. But he does argue that early, targeted and intense therapy can sometimes bring about life-changing improvements – and we have a moral obligation to provide it
Claire was in bad shape. She had been brought to the ward on a stretcher and hoisted on to a bed where she lay curled up in a ball. She was unable to speak, her eyes...
Data centre summit returns to Sandton this June
It’s just three weeks until the doors open at the Pan African DataCentres Exhibition & Conference.
Aions Ventures Launches R100M Seed Fund For SA Tech Startups
Aions Ventures has launched Aions Seed Fund I, a R100 million seed fund to back early-stage South African technology startups and help bridge the country’s gap between early traction and Series A. The fund includes R60 million allocated through the High Impact Seed Fund of Funds (HISFoF), a R300 million fund-of-funds initiative managed by the […]
How telematics keeps fleets safe, efficient and compliant
Tracker on how telematics gives fleet managers real-time visibility to meet growing safety and compliance demands.
Canal+ lists on the JSE in first for a French company
The Johannesburg listing comes barely six months after Canal+ delisted MultiChoice, the pay-TV group it now owns.
Microsoft moves to remake computing around AI
Microsoft has announced a sweeping set of new initiatives in a push to move beyond apps and remake computing around AI.
Lottery Olympics Scammers Must Pay Back The Money
The Special Tribunal has ordered the South African Sports Confederation and Olympics Committee (SASCOC) and entities linked to former NLC officials to repay nearly R25-million in lottery funds. The funds were used for a Rio Olympics roadshow, with most of the money diverted to entities linked to former National Lotteries Commission chief operating officer Philemon […]
Amazon’s long game in South Africa
Priced at R59/month or R399/year, Prime now undercuts Amazon’s standalone Prime Video, signalling a fight for market share.
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Science Foundation’s $368 million Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of more than 900 deep-sea instruments used to monitor ocean currents, marine ecosystems, carbon absorption, heat waves, fisheries, coastal flooding, and climate change. The NSF said it would send ships in June to begin the removal of the instruments anchored...
BREAKING | Amazon Prime launched in South Africa
Amazon’s Prime membership has gone live locally at R59/month, bundling free delivery, video and cloud gaming.
ChatGPT smashes through a billion monthly users
ChatGPT hit a billion monthly users in May, faster than any app yet that milestone, Sensor Tower estimates.
Publishers in UK can opt out of Google AI search results
The Competition and Markets Authority says it would put publishers “in a stronger position to negotiate content deals with Google”.
Specieswatch: Scientists trace haunting sea thrums to humpback whales
Understanding whale sounds could help prevent strikes from ships and even aid in search for extraterrestrial life
If you stand on certain shorelines and listen carefully you might just hear deep rumbling noises. Sharp-eared fishers, lighthouse keepers and sea kayakers have been haunted by these late-night sounds for centuries and now, for the first time, scientists have recorded these thrums...
Microsoft’s Project Solara Is an OS For Devices That Run AI Agents Instead of Apps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows, with two working hardware designs so far, and an initial set of big-name companies lined up to run pilots. The platform, dubbed “Project Solara,” is Microsoft’s bet that AI will open up entirely new...
Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.
Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers.
Do you find yourself aimlessly scrolling? You’re not alone
A Virgin Media O2 report suggests an average of 36% of time spent on phones is without a clear purpose.
Mathematicians Warn of AI Threats to Profession As Industry Encroaches
A new Leiden Declaration, endorsed by the International Mathematical Union and published on June 2, 2026, warns that AI could undermine mathematics by flooding the field with plausible but flawed proofs, weakening attribution, shifting incentives, and giving tech companies too much influence over research priorities. “Mathematicians should find it quite striking that tech companies are suddenly...
European Parliament Ditches Google For French Search Firm
The European Parliament is replacing Google with French search engine Qwant as the default on in-house computers, citing digital sovereignty and privacy concerns. Politico reports: As of Thursday June 4, “Qwant will replace Google as default search engine on European Parliament computers,” officials told lawmakers in an email seen by POLITICO. The change is being made “in line with the...
Microsoft testing wearable AI gadget aimed at office workers
The company said its own workers are testing a “wearable access badge” and a desktop device.