201 Meta Platforms is testing a paid consumer subscription tier for WhatsApp, marking a significant shift for a service that has built its global dominance on being free to use. The new…
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John Ternus and the battle for Apple’s soul
184 John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO in September 2026 To understand how Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, will run the company, pay attention to what he refuses to…
NTT Data claims Africa-first 400Gbit/s peering at Jinx
213 NTT Data said on Monday it has become the first network operator in Africa to activate 400Gbit/s peering at the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (Jinx). It described the move as a milestone…
‘The ISP for ISPs’: Vox’s shift to wholesale aggregator
218 Vox’s Andre Eksteen is TechCentral guest on TCS+ Vox, a well-established retail internet service provider is expanding its services to the wholesale market through aggregation. In this episode of TechCentral’s podcast…
South Africa ‘isn’t ready’ for AI-accelerated cyberattacks
192 TrendAI’s Zaheer Ebrahim US artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI model family, officially announced Claude Mythos Preview on 7 April, confirming it as a step-change model that…
Hype or not, Mythos is a wake-up call for South African CISOs
181 Should South African organisations be panicked about Claude Mythos? The answer depends partly on whether the model lives up to its own marketing hype and partly on a set of defensive…
New Wits-built app to warn South Africans of pollution spikes
197 Bruce Mellado Scientists at the University of Witwatersrand have designed South Africa’s first app to warn residents of pollution levels, as Johannesburg suffers a spike in coal emissions in recent weeks,…
Specialists leave mobile operators behind on home internet
363 Vox has taken every fixed broadband award in Opensignal’s latest South African benchmarking exercise, an outcome that puts a specialist internet service provider ahead of the country’s largest mobile operators on…
Humanoid robots are now faster than the world’s best runners
167 The Tiangong Ultra 2026 humanoid robot takes part in the second Beijing E-Town Half Marathon and Humanoid Robot Half Marathon in Beijing, China. Tingshu Wang/Reuters Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed…
DStv drops premium paywall on Fifa World Cup in Canal+-era shift
295 SuperSport CEO Rendani Ramovha SuperSport will broadcast all 104 Fifa World Cup 2026 matches across every DStv package tier from Access through to Premium, the first time a premium global sports…