203 While attention was fixed on AI last year, South Africa made its biggest leap in digital identity and payments in more than a decade. These were not isolated upgrades. Together they…
Category: Tech
Google poised to lose ad crown to Meta
173 Meta Platforms is projected to surpass Google in digital advertising revenue globally by the end of 2026, and dethrone the search engine behemoth in the lucrative business, according to Emarketer. The…
Grand Theft Data – hackers hit Rockstar Games
228  Grand Theft Auto is Rockstar Games’ biggest franchise A hacking group with a history of compromising major global corporations said it had stolen nearly 80 million business records from videogame…
Thyspunt emerges as frontrunner for new Eskom nuclear plant
250 Maps showing the location of Thyspunt. Image: OpenStreetMap Further specialist studies on which site to select for Eskom’s proposed 5.2GW nuclear power station should only be for Thyspunt on the Eastern…
AI sabotage in the workplace is real
218 Nearly a third of employees surveyed by a global study admit to deliberately undermining their companies’ AI roll-outs – and while the research did not include South African respondents, a local…
UK PM Keir Starmer declares war on doomscrolling
185 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok need to take action to stop young users wasting hours mindlessly scrolling never-ending videos, British Prime Minister Keir…
Streaming platform bags rights for Fifa World Cup in South Africa
188 SportyTV, an African-focused streaming platform, said on Monday that it has acquired pay-television rights to show all 104 matches of the 2026 Fifa World Cup in South Africa. The deal, which…
The satellite war on terrestrial telecoms has already begun
221 The convergence of several seemingly disparate but interrelated technological advances is bringing mass-market satellite direct-to-device capabilities closer to being an everyday reality. The shift promises to connect the unconnected, especially in…
Citroën Basalt SUV-Coupé: connectivity, comfort and design intelligence
197 Citroën South Africa has officially launched the Basalt SUV-Coupé, moving beyond teaser fragments to reveal a full vehicle that combines intuitive technology, practical usability and design-led thinking in the B-SUV segment….
The end of MultiChoice as we know it
233 Six months on from the Canal+ takeover, the question is: what kind of company is MultiChoice now? The official line is that the DStv parent, now owned by France’s Groupe Canal+,…