For years, cloud sovereignty was shorthand for data residency. Keep it local, keep it compliant, so the thinking went, and you’ll keep regulators happy. But as AI rewires what organisations actually need from their infrastructure, sovereignty is now more than simply where a server sits. Ashesh Badani, senior vice president and chief product officer, Red…
Former President Donald Trump and moderator Kristen Welker appear in a pre taped interview on “Meet the Press” at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, in Bedminster, NJ, Sep. 14, 2023. William B. Plowman | NBCU | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Sunday lashed out at NBC News “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker,…
Local cotton manufacturing moves into surgical textiles as Africa seeks import alternatives and channels more fibre into homegrown factories. African manufacturers are increasingly turning locally grown cotton into high-value medical textiles, offering a domestic alternative to raw exports and expensive imports. The shift is still small compared with the size of the continent’s cotton industry….
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia Nvidia’s reported move to acquire Hugging Face for about US$12.9-billion (R207-billion) looks, at first glance, like a strange bet. The target is a 10-year-old start-up with roughly $150-million in annual revenue that was last formally valued at $4.5-billion in a 2023 funding round. A near-triple markup for a company only…
Summer might be winding down, but that’s exactly why now is one of the smartest times to shop for outdoor furniture and patio accessories. As retailers clear out seasonal inventory to make room for fall stock, prices on everything from lounge chairs to fire pits tend to drop. Walmart is leaning into the moment with…
Eugene Perumal, founder and principal of Valutivity. Some 95% of executives say their organisations have already experienced negative consequences from enterprise AI use, with direct financial loss as the most common outcome. Agentic AI compounds that risk dramatically. Agents that can read, write, trigger workflows and initiate transactions under a single broadly permissioned identity are…
The Alliance of Sahel States – composed of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso – said the attempted coup was “a betrayal by a group of soldiers involved in an attempt at destabilisation”. The authorities have not said how many soldiers were involved in the attempted coup, nor how many casualties there were. Niger’s military ruler,…
A man looks inside the Changan Deepal S05 REEV during a press conference for the unveiling of the Chinese model at the WesBank Festival of Motoring. Nqobile Dludla/Reuters Chinese car makers launched a raft of electric, hybrid and bakkie models at South Africa’s biggest motor show last week, betting on growing demand for electrified vehicles…
The Osher Map Library, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, is home to half a million rare maps, globes and atlases, dating as far back as the 15th century. Correspondent Martha Teichner explores the world as depicted by cartographers, through maps that are whimsical, political, or intentionally distorted, and examines why – in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=7SYogg8ILAD3tUG3&v=AxAgeglgSeA&feature=youtu.be Electronic Arts Inc. and Bit Reactor, in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, announced today that Star Wars Zero Company™, a single-player turn-based tactics game set in the twilight of the Clone Wars™, is now available for PC via the EA app, Steam, and Epic Games Store, and PlayStation®5 and XBOX Series consoles. In Star Wars…
