173 Anton Fatti, chief technology officer of HealthBridge, says the doctor-patient relationship must remain at the centre of digital transformation in healthcare, even as AI reshapes how medical practices operate. Speaking on…
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high-performance remote access built for the modern enterprise
123 As organisations across Africa accelerate digital transformation, remote access has shifted from a support tool to a core business enabler. Hybrid work, distributed teams, multi-site operations and cloud infrastructure demand secure,…
Back to court for Zimbabwean permit holders seeking to stay in SA
111 Operation Dudula challenges decision by Minister of Home Affairs to extend the ZEP expiry deadline. Anti-immigration group Operation Dudula announced on Friday that it is taking Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber…
Open banking is growing in South Africa
150 A new paper by the Reserve Bank argues that South Africa’s market-driven approach to open banking is limited in its reach. In fact, it risks entrenching the same socioeconomic barriers that…
Perfect storm for South African tech buyers
131 The rand began the week at its lowest level in four months as escalating hostilities in the Middle East kept oil prices high, stoking inflation worries ahead of a much-anticipated interest…
Stellantis South Africa plant on hold but “we have not cancelled”
130Three products are now planned for the plant, but sharing with another manufacture will take place. Stellantis has reportedly halted production of its long-delayed local vehicle assembly plant in the Eastern Cape…
Cape Town BNPL start-up Happy Pay raises R86-million in seed funding
122 The Happy Pay team. Image: Supplied Cape Town-based “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) start-up Happy Pay has raised US$5-million (R86-million) in a seed funding round led by Paris-headquartered venture capital firm…
How AI is transforming the machinery of war
125AI tools are making war faster than ever. The Iran conflict shows why that should alarm us all.
How Elon Musk’s Hyperloop sucked up billions and delivered nothing
146 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…
SA start-up HyperDev wants to turn your AI-built app into a real company
150 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…