THURSDAY, 22 JANUARY 2026, 02:32
SIRBAI today announced the official launch of the Middle East’s first AI-powered autonomous drone swarm technology at UMEX 2026 – a global exhibition platform for unmanned systems and autonomous capabilities – marking the company’s entry into the defense technology sector.
Dreams of a new smart city along the Wild Coast has given way to a harsh reality.
Sony plans to spin off its TV hardware business to a new joint venture controlled by Chinese electronics giant TCL, the two said Tuesday, a significant retreat for the Japanese giant whose Bravia line has long occupied the premium end of the television market. TCL would hold a 51% stake in the venture and Sony would retain 49% under a nonbinding agreement the two companies signed. They aim to...
CSC, an enterprise-class domain registrar and world leader in mitigating brand, fraud, domain, and domain name system (DNS) threats, today released its Domain Security Report 2026, which found that unicorns—privately owned start-ups or relatively new innovative companies with a valuation of over $1 billion—have a higher score than the Forbes Global 2000 companies in five out of eight domain...
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced thousands of organizations have benefited from the Rimini Smart Path™, a proven, three-step methodology to Support, Optimize and Innovate across the enterprise software portfolio, helping leaders achieve...
Vodacom Business and KnowBe4 discuss why cybersecurity is shifting from a cost centre to a strategic business enabler.
British Museum hails record-breaking year for archaeological discoveries – thanks largely to metal detectorists
A hoard of pennies linked to Harold II and most likely buried on the eve of battle in 1066, a rare Roman vehicle fitting, and a group of early medieval objects are among the archaeological finds and treasure discovered in Britain in 2024.
It was a record-breaking year for...
BBC technology editor Zoe Kleinman explains.
In an opinion piece for The Register, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that while “vibe coding” can be fun and occasionally useful for small, throwaway projects, it produces brittle, low-quality code that doesn’t scale and ultimately burdens real developers with cleanup and maintenance. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt: Vibe coding got a big boost when everyone’s favorite open source...
Today, Colgate-Palmolive announced a new multi-year collaboration with the WHO Foundation to support the World Health Organization’s work on oral health.
Vumatel believes three factors will give it an edge as competition heats up on the next frontier of FTTH in South Africa.
“Q-Day” may be a years away, but there’s an urgent need to get serious about quantum security today, experts have warned.
Nearly a quarter-century after its release, I finally got to watch the first Lord of the Rings movie in a cinema — and it was fantastic.
Founded by researchers from Anthropic, Google and xAI, the new company, Humans&, is already valued at $4.48 billion.
Unathi Thosago takes on the role of Parliament’s chief information officer, effective early January.
On this week’s episode of The Big Interview podcast, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talks about maintaining neutrality in an online ecosystem increasingly hostile to facts.
The Andaman coast was one of very few places in the world with a viable population but then dead dugongs began washing up. Now half have gone
A solitary figure stands on the shore of Thailand’s Tang Khen Bay. The tide is slowly rising over the expanse of sandy beach, but the man does not seem to notice. His eyes are not fixed on the sea, but on the small screen clutched between his...
KnowBe4, the world-renowned platform that comprehensively addresses human and agentic AI risk management, today announced it has earned several prestigious workplace awards in Q4 2025.
There has been no formal announcement about the finalisation of South Africa’s National Rail Masterplan, which was touted for the end of 2025.
More and more Chinese adoptees in the US are trying to reunite with their birth parents. For Youxue, it took more than a decade, and a remarkable coincidence.
Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.”