211 South Africa’s direct marketing industry faces a significant new compliance regime after trade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau gazetted amendments to the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) that require all direct…
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Fibre: the backbone of South Africa’s digital health ecosystem
162 For millions of South Africans, access to healthcare does not begin in a clinic or hospital. It begins online. The internet has quietly become one of the most powerful tools for…
Stafford Masie: South Africa risks regulating away its AI future
166 Stafford Masie. Tadek Szutowicz/TechCentral Prominent technology investor Stafford Masie has launched a stinging public critique of South Africa’s draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy, warning that the document risks “regulating away” the…
Adobe bets on AI agents to fend off cheaper rivals
161 Kylie Cooper/Reuters Adobe is releasing a new AI assistant designed to help users carry out tasks across its suite of software for editing photos, videos and other digital content. The Firefly…
BYD shuns price war in South Africa
154 The BYD Dolphin Surf Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is deliberately avoiding a price war in South Africa as competition ramps up in the continent’s second biggest car market, its local…
R85-million for SA start-up reinventing the stethoscope with AI
156 Cape Town-based medtech start-up AI Diagnostics has raised R85-million in a pre-series-A funding round to scale the deployment of an AI-powered digital stethoscope, which is designed to detect tuberculosis through lung-sound…
Werner Lindemann on how AI is rewriting the infosec rulebook
146 The pace at which artificial intelligence is reshaping the threat landscape is outstripping the ability of most organisations to defend themselves, with shadow AI, synthetic identity attacks and a looming quantum…
Draft AI policy: South Africa ‘too dependent’ on US, China
170 South Africa’s draft AI policy document – gazetted last week by the department of communications & digital technologies – contains a candid acknowledgement that the country’s reliance on US and Chinese…
The cameras behind Artemis II’s stunning lunar images
222 Two professional photography instructors trained Artemis II astronauts to take pictures of the moon and Earth during their historic lunar flyby and said they were as impressed as the public by…
New man to accelerate wholesale connectivity in the DRC
159 Gaetan Soltesz, GM of FAST Congo With more than 25 years of international telecommunications experience, Gaetan Soltesz is the new GM of FAST Congo, the joint venture formed in the Democratic…