European regulators have warned that Temu and Shein are selling hazardous products, including shoes, lingerie, and nail polish containing carcinogens, flammable children’s pyjamas, toxic slime ...

Midstream Estate in Gauteng is generating roughly one gigawatt-hour or a million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity through solar panels every month. The solar power is sufficient to meet roughly ...

Hangzhou-based AI startup DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, recently shook up the artificial intelligence space with the launch of its DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 large language ...

The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) new leadership is seeking a service provider to revive its brand image and “restore trust among its audiences.” This is according to a ...

My colleagues and I at Purdue University have uncovered a significant imbalance in the human values embedded in AI systems. The systems were predominantly oriented toward information and utility ...

After operating in South Africa for over eleven years, Uber is collapsing, with customers reporting problems with driver behaviour, poorly maintained cars, and torpid customer support. When Uber ...

South African ride-hailing platform Twytch uses blockchain technology to improve passenger and driver safety by verifying both users’ identities while ensuring that this private data is not ...

Public safety tool Community Wolf plans to use artificial intelligence to inform law enforcement and security companies about how to allocate their resources more effectively. Speaking to the SABC ...

Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has said he is in the process of reforming South Africa’s electricity pricing policy to protect the poor from price hikes, according to ...

MyBroadband recently got a tour of Freedom Won’s impressive factory in Edenvale, one of the three biggest battery assembly plants in South Africa. Freedom Won was founded by Lizette Kriel and ...

Eskom’s reliance on load reduction as a cover for load-shedding, instead of fixing overloaded substations and incentivising alternative energy solutions, is prolonging South Africa’s power crisis.

South Africans increasingly use digital channels to conduct transactions, with a significant rise in the use of debit and credit cards to purchase groceries and clothing. Data from Standard Bank ...