127 The author, President Cyril Ramaphosa. Image: GCIS South Africa has a well-established car manufacturing industry that’s more than a century old. It has proven to be one of the most resilient…
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Watts & Wheels Ep 1: ‘BYD Shark 6 and the electric bakkie revolution’
128 Welcome to the machine (with apologies to Pink Floyd). This is Watts & Wheels, a new motoring show hosted by motoring journalist (and “buzzhead” – or is that “electronhead”?) William Kelly…
Huawei unleashes AI beast to take on Nvidia
148 People visit a Huawei booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China. Go Nakamura/Reuters China’s Huawei Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that one industry expert…
Taukobong cashes in after strong Telkom performance
115 Telkom Group CEO Serame Taukobong Telkom Group CEO Serame Taukobong nearly tripled his earnings in the 2025 financial year compared to 2024, with the company’s improved performance helping bolster his remuneration….
Autistic and neurodivergent – and empowered by ChatGPT
144 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…
Tan’s tough turnaround: Intel cuts deep to regain focus
121 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
125 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
115 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
164 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
262 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…