Second cyclone slams into Madagascar
NASA captured images of the second powerful tropical cyclone in two weeks to strike Madagascar. On 31 January, Fytia battered the remote northwestern coast of the island with destructive winds and torrential rains that displaced thousands of people. Less than two...
Meta builds AI infrastructure with Nvidia
Nvidia has announced a multiyear, multigenerational strategic partnership with Meta spanning on-premises, cloud and AI infrastructure. Meta will build hyperscale data centers optimized for both training and inference in support of the company’s long-term AI...
Checkers Sixty60 breaks delivery records in Early Black Friday
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SA schools shine at Inspired Builds robotics competition
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Africa unites to save lives on Red Saturday
The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) and the Western Cape Blood Service (WCBS) will join blood services across Africa for a ground-breaking blood donation event, Red Saturday, scheduled for Saturday 29 November 2025. The event aims to engage thousands of...
Biology model IDs more than 1m species, and counting
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COP30 delivers benefits for Africa
The COP30 conference in Belem, Brazil showed that climate cooperation is producing results that matter for people’s lives, with real benefits across African nations. One hundred and ninety-four countries, representing billions of people, concluded that the Paris...
IBM and Cisco aim for network-distributed quantum computing
IBM and Cisco have announced their intention to collaborate on the groundwork for networked distributed quantum computing, to be realized as soon as the early 2030s. By combining IBM's leadership in building useful quantum computers with Cisco's quantum networking...
Intel, Cisco partner to put AI workloads on the edge
The edge is quickly taking hold as a new frontier for compute, especially as the demand for agentic and physical AI workloads increases. Enterprises now require more adaptable infrastructures that can scale across multiple industries – like retail, manufacturing and...
FNB braces for more than R3,3bn in Black Friday spend
FNB anticipates another strong day of spend on Black Friday this year, with continued growth expected in digital payments, online shopping and overall transactions expected to exceed R3,3-billion. Early signals across 2025 show consistent customer spending and...
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4Sight moves from AltX to JSE Main Board
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Times 3 Technologies awarded Sage Platinum Elite status
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Network Specialist – Wireless – Gauteng Midrand
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