Meta’s pick of an Indian fintech founder signals the scale of the company’s payment ambitions for WhatsApp.

IBM says it has created the world’s first known chip tech below 1 nanometre – but it will be some time before it’s ready for production.

Kaspersky outlines the elements of a high-performing security operations centre.

Gartner predicts AI coding costs will rival developer salaries by 2028. It may come sooner in South Africa.

Stocks & Strauss has announced the final close of the University Technology Fund II at R400 million, taking total capital across its university-linked early-stage investment platform to more than R700 million and deepening a dedicated pathway for commercialising innovation emerging from tertiary institutions. Investors in UTF II include the SA SME Fund, Stellenbosch University, Allan […]

Prosus today announces a €400 million (US$460 million) investment into the European health and insurance tech leader, Alan, valuing it at €5.5 billion (US$6.3 billion). The investment will consist of both primary and secondary equity. Prosus is joined in this round by existing investors Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG) and Index Ventures, and new investor Dara […]

South Africans should be netting at least R20,000 per month for a 40-hour work week if they wish to achieve a decent, albeit humble, standard of living and level of dignity. This latest living wage figure was announced by the Living Wage South Africa Network (LWSAN), a registered non-profit organisation, that champions the drive to […]

Datatec CEO Jens Montanana has reset the floor and ceiling on a 2.4-million-share collar as the company’s share price surges.

JSE-listed mining group Wesizwe Platinum  has provided an update to shareholders, detailing significant progress on its SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system re-implementation . The announcements, following a series of JSE News Service releases since March 2026, highlight the company’s strategic efforts to fortify its internal controls and address operational challenges. SAP...

The Department of Social Development spent R4.8-billion less than expected on social grants in the 2025/26 financial year. Of the department’s R285.9-billion budget for social grants, R281.1-billion was spent. Officials told Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Social Development on Wednesday that the shortfall was mainly due to stricter grant verification measures, lower-than-expected...

In a chilling new book, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli says we’re back on the brink – and this time, leaders chronically lack the nous of Kennedy and Khrushchev. So why is he against rearming?

Should European members of Nato be rearming in the face of the Russian threat? And if not, I ask Carlo Rovelli, why not? The Italian theoretical physicist seems a good person to answer these...

How much do our genes determine about our lives, and could they influence traits like risk-taking, antisocial behaviour or even violence? Ian Sample talks to Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioural geneticist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies how genetic factors shape human behaviour. In her book Original Sin she explores how nature and nurture combine to...

Jenny Kleeman investigates ‘Biotech Barbie’ Cathy Tie, the controversial entrepreneur hoping to revolutionise human reproduction by letting parents edit their embryos

Meet Cathy Tie: serial entrepreneur, self-described “Biotech Barbie”, and the woman aiming to revolutionise reproduction by using Crispr to edit human embryos.

Beneath the tech-startup polish lies a provocative mission: to take...

The company has just a few hundred satellites in low Earth orbit but has state backing and is already reportedly negotiating with dozens of countries

Elon Musk’s Starlink has long dominated the satellite internet industry, but a Chinese government-backed project is aiming to challenge its position.

SpaceSail has just a few hundred satellites in low Earth orbit compared with Starlink’s...

Perseverance identifies organic carbon molecules in rocks on riverbed that carried water billions of years ago

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has detected complex carbon molecules in Martian rocks that are already in the spotlight for bearing potential signatures of ancient microbial life.

Measurements taken by the rover’s Sherloc instrument identified organic carbon in mudstones from the Bright...

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour

The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago has been virtually unwrapped and read with help from artificial intelligence.

Researchers uncovered 20 columns of previously hidden text covering more than a...

The tech giant has consistently stood by its Majorana chip research despite scepticism from some experts in the field.

Rockstar has said physical copies of the game will contain a code for a digital download for the game.

The glittering image, taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, heralds a new age of planetary discovery

The dazzling sight of more than 60m stars at the heart of Earth’s galaxy has been captured by a space telescope designed to reveal the mysterious dark forces that shape the universe.

Astronomers used the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope to capture the largest, most...