65 Home affairs minister Leon Schreiber South Africa has a new draft white paper on immigration, citizenship and refugees. This, the fourth in three decades, represents a step change from the previous…
Category: Tech
SpaceX IPO may be largest in history
70 SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas. Gabriel V Cardenas/Reuters Elon Musk’s SpaceX is weighing a mid-June initial public offering, aiming to raise as much as US$50-billion at a valuation of roughly $1.5-trillion,…
Nvidia throws AI at weather forecasting
71 Nvidia has released three open-source AI models aimed at helping create better weather forecasts, faster. The models, which the AI chip firm announced at the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting in…
Investors can’t get enough of ASML
76 ASML employees pose in front of the partially completed frame of the company’s ‘High NA EUV’ tool in 2022 As artificial intelligence firms jostle for the Nvidia chips needed to power…
WhatsApp boosts defences for high-risk users
78 WhatsApp has begun offering users an advanced security mode, joining a growing number of US tech firms that are letting users opt into stronger protections against hackers in exchange for a…
DStv cuts decoder prices and adds cost-sharing feature
69 DStv has lowered the upfront cost of its decoders, added channels to its entry-level package and introduced a new payment-splitting feature as it looks to retain price-sensitive customers in a fiercely…
Outa warns homeowners against rushing to register rooftop solar
66 The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has urged South African households with rooftop solar installations not to rush into registering their systems with Eskom or local municipalities, warning that the current…
Amazon brings image-based shopping to South Africa
81 Amazon’s Robert Koen. Esa Alexander/Reuters Amazon has rolled out an image-based shopping feature called Amazon Lens to South African customers, allowing users to search for products using photos, screenshots or barcodes…
EU accelerates Iris2 launch to counter Starlink dominance
83 EU commissioner for defence and space Andrius Kubilius. Lehtikuva/Markku Ulander The EU’s multi-orbit array of 290 satellites known as Iris2 should be able to start initial communication services in 2029, marking…
Human behaviour, not AI, will determine who wins in 2026
72 As global organisations race to embed AI, redesign operating models and introduce new digital capabilities, South African enterprises are confronting a more complex reality. The technology exists, the ambition is high,…