
Samsung supports mobile device, electronic repairs SMEs
The company invites black-owned SMEs in the service centre market to participate in its Equity Equivalent Investment Programme.
TUESDAY, 21 APRIL 2026, 08:28

The company invites black-owned SMEs in the service centre market to participate in its Equity Equivalent Investment Programme.

With 144m daily users, the gaming company is extending its tech to introduce two age‑specific accounts.

The State IT Agency’s request covers the outright purchase of personal devices, peripherals, consumables and related services.

We send the voice of the dead across space as an act of continuity and care, while on Earth we tally the bodies. Which do we choose to become?
Four people are sleeping 19,000 miles from the moon when the voice of Apollo 13’s commander arrives.
“Hello, Artemis II. This is Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. Welcome to my old neighborhood.”
Flynn Coleman is an international human rights lawyer,...

Experts say natural kratom may offer benefits and blame synthetic derivatives for surge in poisonings noted by CDC
A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report shows that kratom poisonings have soared in the US, but experts say this is probably due to synthetic derivatives like 7-OH, and that blanket kratom bans could harm people using natural kratom to aid pain management...

A draft environmental scoping report has recommended Thyspunt, between Oyster Bay and Cape St Francis, as the preferred site for Eskom’s proposed 5,200MW nuclear plant. Thyspunt is already owned by Eskom and has better access to the power grid than rival site Bantamsklip, partly because wind farms have already brought new powerlines to the area. […]
Will some programmers become “AI babysitters”? asks long-time Slashdot readertheodp. They share some thoughts from a founding member of Code.org and former Director of Education at Google: “AI may allow anyone to generate code, but only a computer scientist can maintain a system,” explained Google.org Global Head Maggie Johnson in a LinkedIn post. So “As AI-generated code becomes more accurate...

Social media platforms need to stop young users wasting hours doomscrolling, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.

Fear of job loss is driving some employees quietly to sabotage AI projects, a global study has found.

The challenge with agentic AI is no longer choosing a model and building agents, but the complexity of managing the infrastructure to run thousands of agents securely.

Introduction The digital world is growing at an unprecedented pace, and so are the threats that target it. Every day, organizations face new risks from increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. Traditional security approaches, while helpful in the past, now struggle to keep up with the speed and complexity of modern attacks. As a result, many businesses are […]

SportyTV said on Monday that it has acquired pay rights to broadcast all 104 matches of the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for them
A new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that was recently introduced by the NHS has been announced.
Researchers at London’s Institute of Cancer Research and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin have developed the...

Direct-to-device technology threatens to pit satellite and mobile operators against each other in the years ahead.

HOSTAFRICA has unveiled its dedicated NVIDIA RTX PRO GPU servers at Digital Parks Africa’s (DPA) Samrand data centre, launching its fully localised GPU‑as‑a‑Service offering. The launch brought together industry leaders, tech partners and customers for a first-hand look at the platform in action, including live demonstrations of the high-performance infrastructure now available locally....
Anthropic recently “hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and the business world” for a two-day summit , reports the Washington Post:Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said. The wide-ranging discussions also covered how...

Picture a rainy Wednesday morning in Sandton, sometime in the near future. A claims handler opens their laptop, and right away, things move much faster than they used to. For every new email, the company’s artificial intelligence system (AI) has already drafted a suggested reply. The inbox is lighter too, because a public chatbot, which […]

The Basalt SUV-Coupé blends intuitive tech, practical usability and design-led thinking for South African drivers.

A trio of tricky teasers
Tanya Khovanova is a luminary of the recreational mathematics scene. She is one of its foremost bloggers and also runs Number Gossip, a site where you can sumbit a number and she “will tell you everything you want to know about it but were afraid to ask.”
Tanya has now written her first book, Mathematical Puzzles and Curiosities, in collaboration with two other puzzle...

Six months on from the Canal+ takeover, the question is: what kind of company is MultiChoice now?

The new moon will be particularly beautiful – at just 2.6 days old, only about 7.5% of its visible surface will be illuminated
The brilliant beacon of planet Venus is now unmistakeable in the evening sky, appearing to the naked eye well before the twilight has fully faded into night.
This week, the planet will be joined by a young crescent moon on the nights of 18 and 19 April. The chart shows...