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A $10 Plastic Speaker is the Most Durable Revenue Line in Indian Digital Payments

Yesterday at 12:20 PM, via Slashdot

India’s digital payment platforms process trillions of dollars a year through UPI, the government-built real-time payments rail that handles more than 90% of all payment transactions in the country, but one of their largest net revenue line items is not a payment product at all: it’s a cheap plastic speaker that sits on a shopkeeper’s counter and reads out incoming payments aloud. The roughly...

AI powers the future of finance

Yesterday at 12:19 PM, via ITWeb

The Sage Intacct cloud-based accounting system incorporates AI agents to automate accounting processes and gives users real-time visibility, automation and scalable control.

South Africa’s Developers Step Up in Huawei’s Code4Mzansi Competition

Yesterday at 12:16 PM, via Tech Financials

The Huawei Developer Competition, Code4Mzanzi, has kicked off in partnership with the Department of Small Business Development and various academic institutions, including the University of Cape Town, the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, and the University of the Witwatersrand. The competition, which is part of a larger international initiative, brings together South...

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via Wired

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

Claims That AI Can Help Fix Climate Dismissed As Greenwashing

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the...

Bitcoin to Bread: How Crypto Spending is Changing South Africa

Yesterday at 11:10 AM, via Tech Financials

On a busy afternoon in Cape Town, a customer taps her crypto card at a café counter. The transaction clears in seconds. The barista hands over the receipt and moves on to the next order. What makes the exchange different is not visible to anyone in the queue. The payment was made using crypto. Until […]

Synthetic trust: The psychology behind deepfake attacks

Yesterday at 11:04 AM, via ITWeb

Synthetic identities are becoming a quick and easy way to establish trust, bypassing business processes by exploiting those who hold the keys, says Antonios Christodoulou, founder and CEO of Cyber Dexterity.

Why is edtech failing in South Africa?

Yesterday at 11:01 AM, via ITWeb

While edtech solutions promise to address long-standing challenges in the education system, a lack of contextual awareness and support means that many fail to deliver.

UJ centre advances practical EV innovation

Yesterday at 10:27 AM, via ITWeb

The university’s Centre for Automotive and Electric Vehicle Innovation turns academic research into road‑ready electric mobility solutions.

Trump Has Prepared Speech On Extraterrestrial Life

Yesterday at 09:00 AM, via Slashdot

According to Lara Trump, Donald Trump has prepared but not yet delivered a speech about extraterrestrial life, though the White House says such a speech would be “news to me.” White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt continued: “I’ll have to check in with our speech writing team. Uh, and that would be of great interest to me personally, and I’m sure all of you in this room and apparently...

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