Former Dimension Data executive chairman Jeremy Ord Four former Dimension Data executives fingered by Jason Goodall in his admission of wrongdoing over the 2019 Campus sale have hit back. They say he was not authorised to speak for them, that his statement contradicts what he said under oath and that its wording was dictated by…
There’s something strange about seeing the products we use every day being made. Walking into Hisense’s Atlantis factory, you’re met with the machinery, production lines and equipment you would expect, but it’s the people, the hands and the minds behind those products that give you a different perspective on what eventually ends up in our…
The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo (2026) pairs a stacked dual-screen chassis with a pair of 16-inch 3K 120Hz OLED displays, a 90Whr battery, and Intel’s Core Ultra 9 processor architecture paired with Nvidia’s RTX 5090 GPU. Positioned as an uncompromising dual-screen flagship, it competes directly with other high-performance portables. Given its enthusiast-grade underpinnings, the laptop…
The robotaxi market is expanding rapidly, but regulation, consumer acceptance and commercially-viable operating models remain key challenges. (Image created via Gemini) The global robotaxi fleet is forecast to grow from 6 500 vehicles at the end of 2025, to 1.53 million units by 2036, as driverless services expand into more markets. According to a new…
Paratus Namibia has launched Eutelsat’s OneWeb low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite service in Namibia. The new service, designed to appeal countrywide to both the residential and commercial market, combines high-speed, low-latency satellite connectivity with competitive pricing and the Paratus customer management solution, which gives users greater visibility and control over their data usage. The Namibia launch…
Billy Mashele, lecturer in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town. Every artificial intelligence (AI) conversation in South African business right now starts in the same place: what can it do? Vendors demo capabilities, conferences rank models and boards ask for “an AI strategy” as if the technology were…
Francis Halzen in 2018. Image: Reuters Belgian-American scientist Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating an observatory in Antarctic ice that detects high-energy neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles that can reveal otherwise inaccessible information about the cosmos. Halzen, 82, realised that pristine ice at the South Pole could be used to…
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita. MTN Group president and CEO Ralph Mupita has been re-elected to the GSM Association (GSMA) board of directors, for the 2027–2028 term. This, after joining the board last year as deputy chairperson. “It is a privilege to continue serving on the GSMA board,” says Mupita. “This term comes as AI…
Anyone at your next board meeting could already be recording it on a phone left face down on the table. Smart glasses add video, shot at eye level, of everything the wearer looks at, including the slides and the screens. And nobody asks a colleague to take off their glasses. Meta and EssilorLuxottica said last…
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg South Africa’s Information Regulator met Meta Platforms in September, when the company demonstrated its camera-equipped smart glasses to the privacy watchdog. “We did meet with Meta last month, where they were demonstrating the camera-recording smart glasses,” the regulator told TechCentral. The meeting took place in the same month that Meta…
