South Africa’s banks are taking divergent paths on AI, with Investec insisting people, not machines, define the institution.

Africa Finance Corporation has committed up to $100-million to tech fund managers to deepen local venture capital.

Participants who got single dose of psilocybin were more likely to abstain from cocaine than those who got placebo

Results from a new clinical trial show that a single dose of psilocybin could be an effective treatment for cocaine addiction.

The study, published in Jama Network Open this month, showed that 19 participants who received a single dose of psilocybin were more likely to abstain from...

Africa Bitcoin Corporation, formerly Altvest Capital, is moving its JSE listing from AltX to the main board.

Paddy Rodgers said the Observatory’s rich history showed the power of human knowledge and the need to avoid “dependence” on AI.

As a business grows, keeping track of every conversation, commitment, and follow-up becomes increasingly difficult. Many small teams rely on memory, personal inboxes, or loosely maintained spreadsheets — an approach that works well enough, until it doesn’t. Contacts slip through the cracks, follow-ups get missed, and customer trust quietly erodes. Teams often start by tracking […]

Campaigners want a major Cape Town data centre plan blocked until its water and power impact is disclosed.

Microsoft estimates 23.1% of working-age South Africans use generative AI – well ahead of the rest of the continent.

State-aligned Iranian media is floating a plan to charge the world’s tech giants rent on subsea cables in the Strait of Hormuz.

Kaspersky GM for sub-Saharan Africa Chris Norton explains why SOCs are becoming a boardroom priority.

Netstar has opened an inner-city learning centre as Altron’s Jozi My Jozi partnership moves to measurable youth impact.

Anthropic will brief central bankers around the world on cyber vulnerabilities its new Mythos model has uncovered.

Starlink now operates in two dozen African countries, with Uganda becoming the latest to licence the satellite service.

Samsung Electronics and a trade union are holding last-ditch talks to avert a strike threatening global supply chains.

The slim arc of a two-day-old moon will pass Venus shining brightly

Keep an eye on the western sky after sunset this week to watch a beautiful sequence unfold over several evenings. A young crescent moon moves first past Venus and then Jupiter, creating a chance to track the moon’s movement through its orbit around the Earth.

The chart shows the view on 18 May looking west from London at 22.00....