A person walks past a Peloton store in New York, Jan. 25, 2022. Carlo Allegri | Reuters Peloton is betting that revamped treadmills, AI and new distribution channels can bring it back to sustained growth. The connected fitness company on Tuesday unveiled three new treadmills and new features for its Peloton IQ artificial intelligence platform…
The region accounts for about one-fifth of global road fatalities despite having only three per cent of the world’s registered vehicles The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have begun developing Africa’s first road safety media guidelines, aimed at improving how newsrooms across the continent report road crashes…
Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes has bought R20.8-million of shares in the company he runs, in two on-market purchases four days apart. According to a Sens announcement on Tuesday, Mendes bought 52 187 ordinary shares at R23 each on 17 September, a R1.2-million transaction, and a further 740 000 shares at R26.50…
Monrovia — South Africa Pushes for Permanent African Seat on UN Security Council South Africa is leveraging ongoing intergovernmental negotiations on UN reform to advance the African Union’s demand for permanent representation. Speaking at the 81st UN General Assembly, South Africa’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Mxolisi Sizo Nkosi, highlighted Security Council reform as…
The new report, published in the journals Earth’s Future and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, was produced by 175 independent climate scientists, including many who had taken part in previous national climate assessments. The document outlines areas of climate research that the authors think deserve more focus, like the risks of compounding events…
President Bola Tinubu has called for a fresh continental push to end the exploitation of Africa’s critical mineral resources. Tinubu, represented by Vice-President Kashim Shettima, made the call at the third Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG) High-level Roundtable on Critical Minerals Development in Africa. The roundtable was held on the sidelines of the ongoing 81st…
iStore expects the iPhone Duo to attract premium buyers. The iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable iPhone, is expected to appeal to consumers at the upper end of the smartphone market when it launches locally in a few weeks. The device is expected to cost more than R50 000 in SA, although iStore has yet to…
Dar es Salaam — UNIVERSITIES across Africa are seeking closer cooperation in research and innovation so that graduates can work in an economy, which is being reshaped by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Professor Nelson Boniface said the annual meeting of the Alliance for…
Germany – a fellow Nato ally – pledged to permanently station a combat-ready brigade in Lithuania in 2023 as a response to the changing security situation in Europe. It is expected to be operational by 2027 and to number about 5,000 soldiers and civilian employees, though it has failed to recruit enough personnel voluntarily and…
Conflict coltan from the DRC is already finding its way into our electronic devices, and rising AI and data centre demand could accelerate harms and add pressure to creaking regulation Global Witness has worked for many years to expose how conflict minerals from the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continue to fuel…
