The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Sam Hall | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple on Friday sued OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, alleging trade secret theft, saying that the artificial intelligence lab took the iPhone maker’s intellectual property in order…
The author, the CSIR’s Dithoto Modungwa Somewhere in South Africa today, a family will get a phone call no one wants to receive. Around 12 000 people die on our roads every year – on the N3, on rural district roads, in taxis, on the way to school. We have grown so used to these numbers…
Cases of cyclosporiasis — an illness caused by a microscopic parasite often linked to contaminated fresh produce like strawberries — are climbing across the U.S. this summer, with outbreaks reported in multiple states and Michigan alone logging hundreds of cases in recent weeks. Currently, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is investigating this multistate surge…
Gridwise 10X wins the Youth Tech Expo G13 Hackathon. Gridwise 10X from Johannesburg has been named the overall winner of the 2026 Youth Tech Expo (YTE) G13 Hackathon, run by the Gauteng Department of e-Government in partnership with Microsoft South Africa The hackathon began in June with regional competitions held across Gauteng in partnership with…
Demand for SK Hynix’s offering was reportedly over seven times more than the number of shares available, highlighting the strong investor appetite for a key company in the AI supply chain. Each American depositary share is equivalent to a tenth of a Seoul-traded common share, SK Hynix said. The offering gives US investors a way…
China on Friday successfully tested an experimental rocket retrieval system using a net attached to a sea platform, state media reported, in the hope of breaking US dominance in reusable rockets. The Long March 10B rocket lifted off from the Hainan commercial space launch site in southern China at 6.15am SAST and, about six minutes…
The U.S. Navy continues to encourage commercial ships to use the so-called southern route through the Strait of Hormuz, despite attacks by Iran this week targeting vessels trying to use that route and repeated warnings from Tehran for ships to only use a northern passage close to its coast. An advisory released Friday by the…
City Power says people are stealing electricity by bypassing smart meters. (Picture: Moritz R | Unsplash) Joburg’s power utility, City Power, has paused converting postpaid to prepaid meters as it admits to billing issues, stating it needs to audit its customer database to identify customers who are getting free power. In a statement issued by…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that legislative elections will be held in late November, the first in 20 years. As Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports, the Palestinian Authority has been under international pressure to demonstrate its legitimacy. Published On 10 Jul 202610 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd…
More than half of online shoppers in sub-Saharan Africa – 56%, the highest share of any region in the world – say they are likely to let AI make shopping decisions or even purchases on their behalf within the next five years, according to the DHL E-Commerce Trends Report 2026, whose South Africa-specific findings were…
