April 2 -As the weekend deadline for TikTok to find a buyer approaches, bidders for the short-video social media site are piling up.

Has Apple, the biggest company in the world, bungled its generative artificial intelligence strategy?Has Apple, the biggest company in the world, bungled its generative artificial intelligence strategy?

MTN just tested a new technology in the small agricultural town of Vryburg that could soon bring big improvements to communication in rural areas.

Helena Lersch, the vice president of public policy at TikTok owner Bytedance, said that while the Creator Fund is still only operating in a few countries, the company is constantly working to improve monetisation features for South African creators.

Can a complete tech novice create a website using everyday language on ChatGPT?

Researchers from Stellenbosch University and China teamed up for a pioneering project to test the technology that might be used to protect the world’s data in the coming years.

Afrimat’s CEO says online scams have become so sophisticated that a good friend of his was duped into thinking he was chatting with him on social media – in Afrikaans.

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has filed a lawsuit against the Indian government over its use of takedown orders to request social media content be removed.

Botswana, the world’s largest diamond producer, is betting that selling big gems to rich young Americans will ease its economic woes and it is trying to catch their eye via Instagram and TikTok.

The ‘luxury’ tax on smartphones in South Africa will be removed for devices under R2 500.

Real estate giant Pam Golding Properties announced that it has been hacked.

After claiming that Starlink was not allowed to operate in South Africa because he is not black, Elon Musk reposted a claim that the country had banned Starlink. This is untrue. Starlink owner SpaceX has not applied for a licence to operate in SA.

Microsoft will invest an additional R5.4 billion in South Africa by the end of 2027 to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence capacity in the country.

As the world’s biggest wireless technology fair, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is packed with manufacturers showing off their latest gadgets and inventions.

Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to reach the frontlines of a global moon race.

Skype will ring for the last time on 5 May as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders.

For the tech-savvy, remote workers, gamers, and those sick of a tangle of cables around their workspace, the UGreen 45000 docking station might be their new best friend.

A lunar lander that will send a ‘hopper’ rover and create a mobile network on the moon was launched on a SpaceX rocket early this morning. South Africa’s Space Agency will play a small part in helping it get there.

After a flurry of activity in the last month, interest in DeepSeek has cooled down somewhat in South Africa.

Sony PlayStation’s online services came back online on Saturday, the Japanese group said, after a 24-hour outage frustrated gamers around the world.

OpenAI chief Sam Altman on Friday said his high-profile artificial intelligence company is “on the wrong side of history” when it comes to being open about how its technology works.