The safety feature reaches South Africa before year-end amid lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny over AI chatbots.

Acting CEO Fathima Gany tells TechCentral the Post Office can survive – but only if government honours its funding promise.

Chip-and-Pin, contactless and digital wallet payments are rolling out to 610 Post Office branches by September.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has cast Beijing as champion of a new AI order built on open-source technology.

The bakkie wars just got another jolt of electricity: BYD has launched the Shark 6 Performance in South Africa.

The cost of South African internet domains is going up by 6.2% from 1 October – an increase well above inflation.

BBC Philharmonic/Havlat/Kaziboni/Piatti Quartet(NMC)Einstein’s field equations, Newton’s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow’s ambitious orchestral works

Robert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently...

Mackerel skies and mare’s tails signal arrival of warm fronts that push moisture to high altitudes and creates distinctive clouds

“Mare’s tails and mackerel scales make lofty ships to carry low sails,” runs an old English saying about summer skies.

Mackerel skies are cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds in regular but patchy rows, resembling the light and dark-scale pattern on a mackerel. The...

Scientists discover the first confirmed atmosphere in habitable zone outside our solar system on LHS 1140b

The search for life outside our solar system has taken another twist as researchers revealed they have discovered an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet 49 light years away that could have liquid water on its surface.

Atmospheres have previously been found around gas giant exoplanets as...

Keith Thomas can move arms and hands, and feel sensation of touch after ‘double neural bypass’ and months of training

A man who was paralysed from the chest down in a swimming accident six years ago has been able to feed himself and drink from a cup thanks to a brain implant that bypasses his spinal cord injury.

Keith Thomas of Massapequa, New York, could not lift his arms off his wheelchair...

Frontier labs have backed Demis Hassabis’s call for a self-regulator, but critics warn it hands Washington the off-switch.

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.

It follows a review by the regulator in May that criticised the platform for not being “safe enough” for children.

The first person has been treated with a highly anticipated new gene therapy that aims to turn back the clock on ageing cells. The trial is aimed at retinal cells, with the hope that encouraging them to behave as if they were young again could improve sight in the affected patients. If it proves to be safe, it could open the door to a whole raft of therapies based on the emerging field of...

Shares fall below $135 price after firm completed biggest ever IPO and made Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire

SpaceX shares dropped below their initial public offering price for the first time on Wednesday, just over a ⁠month after the rockets-to-AI firm completed ⁠the biggest IPO ever and ​made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

The shares slid 1.5% to $134, falling below the $135...