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From game theory to game shows
15+ hour, 57+ min ago (400+ words) By Barry Buck (with Claude) " Somewhere along the line, tech companies became wartime targets. Iran's Revolutionary Guards published a list of 18 US tech firms " Apple, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir " and threatened to destroy their "relevant units" if more Iranian leaders…...
How much do data centres matter in your day-to-day life?
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (623+ words) Behind every app, payment, and streaming moment in South Africa lies one of the most important and least understood places in the modern world: the data centre. By Christina Reddy, head of data centre operations at Amazon Web Services South…...
IBM debuts blueprint for quantum-centric supercomputing
2+ week, 5+ day ago (283+ words) The architecture shows how quantum processors (QPUs) can work alongside GPUs and CPUs " across on'premises systems, research centers, and the cloud " in order to tackle scientific challenges that no single computing approach can solve on its own. Designed for today's…...
Full Stack Senior Developer
3+ week, 6+ day ago (302+ words) Role Overview An established technology-driven organization is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer to design, build, and deploy scalable applications using Microsoft technologies and Azure cloud services. This role involves hands-on development across both front-end and back-end layers while collaborating…...
SA-founded Parent Sense chosen for global healthtech fellowship
1+ week, 6+ day ago (413+ words) Parent Sense, the parenting technology platform founded by South African parenting expert'Meg Faure, has been selected to participate in the'2026 Innovation Hub Fellowship at the Thrive Centre at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Faure and Parent Sense chief operating officer'Tov" de…...
Samsung, AMD tighten ties on AI collaboration
1+ week, 6+ day ago (344+ words) Samsung and AMD have signed an MOU to expand their strategic collaboration on next-generation AI memory and computing technologies. Under the MOU, Samsung and AMD will align on primary HBM4 supply for the next-generation AMD AI accelerator " the AMD Instinct MI455X GPU…...
Nvidia founder unpacks the five-layer AI stack
2+ week, 2+ day ago (828+ words) Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, describes the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape as a five-layer stack, with each layer vital to the successful operation of the whole. AI is one of the most powerful forces shaping the world today. It is…...
Africa can build sovereign AI without slowing innovation
3+ week, 18+ hour ago (967+ words) AI is forcing tough decisions across Africa. Conversations about the technology are becoming more concrete and more consequential as ambition meets the realities of data control and national capability. By President Ntuli, MD of HPE South Africa What was once…...
Quantum computing helps to create never-before-seen molecule
3+ week, 1+ day ago (644+ words) An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterised a molecule unlike any previously known " one whose electrons travel through its structure in a…...
Capitec aims to smooth client support with realtime AI system
3+ week, 5+ day ago (455+ words) Capitec has announced Pulse, an artificial intelligence (AI) capability that changes how clients experience support through its contact centre. For the first time, clients are assisted by contact centre agents who already know what issues to address at every interaction....