A single-minded focus despite prior injuries allowed Czechia’s Karolina Muchova to end Coco Gauff’s incredible run in their Wimbledon semifinal with a thrilling three-set tie-break win over the American tennis player. Gauff, who is yet to progress past the last four at Wimbledon, lived dangerously at the year’s third Grand Slam, but 10th-seeded Muchova came…
Buried in the Public Service Commission’s investigation report into the State IT Agency (Sita), which has been provided to TechCentral, is a finding whose implications neither communications minister Solly Malatsi nor PSC chairman Somadoda Fikeni drew on when they released it in Pretoria on Monday: the instability that hollowed out the agency did not start…
Fidji Simo, chief executive officer of Instacart Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Studio 1.0 interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 3, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s product and business chief, on Thursday announced she is stepping down from her role at the artificial intelligence company to focus…
South Africa bucked a trend seen across Africa, with a three-fold increase in iGaming fraud. (Image created by GenAI) South Africa’s know-your-client (KYC) and anti-money-laundering (AML) tools are seen as fragmented, as the country experiences a three-fold surge in iGaming fraud. This, even though the country was taken off a global financial watchdog’s greylist last…
A man lost his hand after an explosive device detonated while he was cleaning up Fourth of July firework debris on a Northern California beach. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Jason Turner and his girlfriend were walking along Point St. George Beach in Del Norte…
Capitec built its position on a bet most of the banking industry declined to make: that a customer who is poor today will be valuable in five to seven years, if their financial life develops normally. By then their income will have grown, they will have a credit history – and they will trust the…
Former US Olympian David ‘Davey’ Hearn has pleaded not guilty to vandalising the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool at a court appearance in Washington DC. Hearn is accused of causing $1,000 (£750) of damages to the pool. He faces a felony charge of destruction of property. President Donald Trump has blamed vandals for damage to newly…
South African card-linked instalment platform Float has expanded to the UK. South African card-linked instalment platform Float has launched its service in the UK, backed by the UK government’s global entrepreneur programme. Launched in SA in 2021, Float enables consumers to split any purchase into up to 24 interest-free and fee-free monthly instalments, using the…
The recovery of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz appeared to have stalled Thursday, with just six tankers making the transit through the gateway to the Persian Gulf, according to data from the Kpler trade intelligence group. Wednesday saw 21 such vessels transit the waterway, but it also saw a sharp escalation in tit-for-tat attacks…
Mobile customer engagement is undergoing its most significant shift since the rise of smartphones. For years, businesses relied on SMS, e-mail and call centres to manage customer interactions. Then came apps, mobile websites and push notifications – each adding value, but also complexity. Today a new frontier is emerging, driven not by new devices but…
