142 For Cape Town-based filmmaker Kate D’hotman, connecting with movie audiences comes naturally. Far more daunting is speaking with others. “I’ve never understood how people decipher social cues,” the 40-year-old director of…
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Tan’s tough turnaround: Intel cuts deep to regain focus
119 Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Laure Andrillon/Reuters Intel is going to end the year with a workforce that is over a fifth smaller than last year, it said on Thursday, and new…
Announcing Watts & Wheels – an exciting new motoring show
123 This Monday, TechCentral will launch the first episode of an exciting new motoring show called Watts & Wheels. The show, hosted by motoring journalist and “buzzhead” William Kelly and TechCentral editor…
AI slop goes mainstream as YouTube cashes in
113 There’s a prevailing wisdom that AI-generated content, or “slop” as it’s colloquially known, should make our skin crawl. AI models tend to generate uncanny faces, mangled hands and fantastical scenarios. Take…
The test facing new Capitec CEO Graham Lee
162 Newly appointed Capitec CEO Graham Lee. Image: Capitec The newly appointed CEO of South Africa’s biggest bank by customers has a unique problem on his hands. Since Capitec Bank — South…
Starlink suffers rare global outage
260 SpaceX’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk’s powerful satellite internet system. Users in…
From Stellenbosch to the stars
233 South Africa’s space innovators have been recognised by US space agency Nasa for their cutting-edge developments in satellite technology. According to Nasa’s Small Spacecraft Technology State-of-the-Art Report for 2024, released recently,…
Trump’s gift to Silicon Valley
218 The world’s best known artificial intelligence accelerationists have been in Silicon Valley. Now there’s one sitting in the White House. President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan, launched on Wednesday, represents a…
Tesla faces ‘rough quarters’ as sales plunge
115 Patrick Pleul/Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that US government cuts in support for electric vehicle makers could lead to a “few rough quarters” for the company before a…
Netflix is hiring in South Africa
116 Netflix has launched an on-the-job training initiative in South Africa aimed at nurturing talent in the country’s television and film production industry. The US streaming giant said the ScreenCraft Pathway programme…