85 Hyperloop Transportation Technologies test facility in 2019 in Toulouse, France. Photo: Wikipedia user Ryn88668, 19 June 2019, under CC BY-SA 4.0 International licence In 2013, PayPal mafia don and head of…
Category: Tech
SA start-up HyperDev wants to turn your AI-built app into a real company
82 HyperDev’s Anton Moulder Vibe coding tools have made it trivially easy to build an app. But almost nobody is turning those apps into actual businesses — and a South African start-up…
Amazon set to take another shot at the smartphone market
75 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Remo Casilli/Reuters In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone, overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos, was…
MTN and Vodacom dwarf South Africa’s listed tech sector
112 MTN Group and Vodacom Group, the two giants of South Africa’s telecommunications sector, each clock up more than R1-billion in revenue in just two and three days, respectively. TechCentral analysed companies…
How South African executives can crack the AI ROI code
109 The author, Workday’s Jannie Malan Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from boardroom curiosity to boardroom mandate. Across South Africa — from Sandton’s financial district to Cape Town’s technology hubs — executives…
SA firm opens Africa’s largest space hardware factory
87 Image: NewSpace Systems Somerset West-based spacecraft component maker NewSpace Systems has opened a 5 200sq m manufacturing facility that it claims is the largest commercial space hardware manufacturing plant in Africa. The…
OpenClaw fever grips China
94 Participants hold their laptops as they line up to install and set up OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, outside the Baidu offices in Beijing. Florence Lo/Reuters Fan Xinquan, a retired electronics…
OpenAI plans desktop ‘super app’
90 OpenAI has confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that it plans to fold its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a single desktop “super app” to simplify user experience. OpenAI…
GWM eyes plant options in South Africa
98 Nqobile Dludla/Reuters Chinese car maker Great Wall Motor (GWM) is weighing whether to share a manufacturing facility with another car maker in South Africa or acquire an existing plant if available…
Eskom must build renewables or face extinction: Mteto Nyati
77 Eskom chairman Mteto Nyati Eskom chairman Mteto Nyati has said the establishment of a fourth entity within the utility’s unbundling plan — a dedicated renewables business called Eskom Green — is…