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How Cape Town start-up AI Diagnostics is teaching AI to hear the tuberculosis cases human clinicians often miss.
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How Cape Town start-up AI Diagnostics is teaching AI to hear the tuberculosis cases human clinicians often miss.
A Wall Street Journal opinion piece warns of “a troubling trend” in AI’s growth. “Rather than selling software, some AI companies are paying their partners to use it.” It cites OpenAI’s $1.5 billion joint venture with private-equity firms, Anthropic’s $200 million contribution to a private-equity firm joint venture, and Google’s $750 million subsidization of Gemini’s adoption by consulting...

Advances in AI, cloud computing, data integration and analytics are enabling organisations to move toward more integrated approaches.

AI-driven macro shifts are increasingly influencing Bitcoin’s volatility and trading behaviour, says Doto.

The company has launched in SA to address the increasing demand for competitive fibre-optic infrastructure and precision equipment.

Solid8, in collaboration with global vendor partners, will participate at both the Cape Town and Johannesburg events.

A .ZA domain helps your website rank better for local searches, increasing your visibility when customers are looking for services in your area.

CASA Software highlights how the discovery of critical flaws late in the software development life cycle derails project timelines and frustrates developers.

Resilient Innovations builds on the strength of cloud by architecting environments where resilience is deliberately embedded, not assumed.

AI maturity is a journey that remains human‑led, governed and aligned to real business outcomes, says Tertius Zitzke, group CEO of 4Sight.

Companies want to know what it takes to deploy AI properly, says Brandon Singh, head of cloud services at Cloud On Demand.

The bluebuck antelope joins the mammoth, dodo and dire wolf on Colossal Biosciences’ de-extinction list.

Washington has widened curbs on Chinese testing labs, data centres and telecoms carriers in its latest decoupling push.

The videogame retailer and meme-stock star has built a 5% stake and lined up $20-billion in debt to pursue eBay.

Rodent-carried disease is not usually contagious between humans and outbreaks are rare. ‘New world’ variants are the most deadly. What are the symptoms and treatment?
Three passengers on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The outbreak was reported on the polar cruise ship MV Hondius, which was...

Two unnamed officials face precautionary suspension as the fallout from the withdrawn draft AI policy widens further.

Best seen before dawn, the shower will reach its peak on the night of 5–6 May
The Eta Aquariid meteor shower bursts upon the skies this week, reaching its peak on the night of 5–6 May.
Best seen before dawn, the chart shows the view looking east from London at 4am on 6 May. By this time, the shower’s radiant point will have climbed into the south-eastern sky.
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Age verification became mandatory for chat access on Roblox in January — and Friday morning Quartz reported it’s apparently impacted the company’s financials:Roblox cut its full-year 2026 bookings forecast by roughly $900 million at the midpoint on Thursday, blaming stronger-than-expected headwinds from its mandatory age-verification rollout on an audience that skews heavily toward children...
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“Vibe coding just got a whole lot more adorable,” writes Engadget:OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding. These “optional animated companions” don’t do any coding themselves, but serve as a floating overlay that can tell you what Codex is working on, notify you when Codex completes a task or whether it needs your input on something. The new...

On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker
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Astronomers have discovered 27 new potential planets that orbit two stars, like the fictional desert planet Tatooine from the...