South African edutech and youth development organisation, Ukiyo has officially launched the Global Student Support Platform (GSSP), a mobile application designed to centralise education, funding, career opportunities, and student support services into a single digital ecosystem. Nozuko Mzamo, founder of Ukiyo The platform, available for download via Google Play Store and the Apple App Store,…
“Project Aura” and now simply branded as Aura, will go on sale later this year. Unveiled at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) in Long Beach, California, the device represents an ambitious step forward for Google’s homegrown augmented reality platform. Read: Siri AI: A deep dive into Apple’s new intelligent assistant The Aura glasses are engineered…
i2c Inc., a global financial technology innovator, today announced it has won the “Best AI-Powered Fraud Detection Solution by a Vendor” award at The Digital Banker Middle East & Africa Innovation Awards 2026. The award recognizes i2c’s innovative use of artificial intelligence to help financial institutions and fintechs strengthen fraud prevention, improve authorization performance, and…
South African investors poured R179-million in just two days into SpaceX when it hit the public markets last week, with EasyEquities data revealing a frenzy of activity that has already made the stock the platform’s second-largest US dollar holding after Tesla. Retail investors moved fast when SpaceX began trading. On the first day, Friday, 12…
As quantum computing edges closer to practical reality and artificial intelligence continues to accelerate, Singularity South Africa has announced another wave of influential speakers for the 2026 Summit, taking place in collaboration with Old Mutual and metaverse partner UBU, at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October 2026. Building…
Virtual priority court has processed 80 deportation orders in Durban. (Image source: 123RF) The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJCD) is seeing gains in its newly-established virtual priority court, with 80 deportation orders processed in Durban so far. This, as the South African government seeks to enforce immigration laws and ensure the orderly deportation…
A typical migration environment looks manageable on paper. An established organisation, a predominantly on-premises setup, a directive to move to the cloud. What the scoping work usually reveals is something more layered: servers provisioned years ago and never decommissioned, data that was never classified, access controls set up once and never reviewed. Not unusual individually…
South African Elon Musk is the first person to be worth more than $1 trillion. (Graphic by Nicola Mawson, with images from Daniel Oberhaus and SpaceX) Pretoria-born Elon Musk has become the first person in the world to be worth more than $1 trillion after SpaceX’s share price gained 25.38% almost overnight to hit a…
Large enterprises face a cybersecurity mismatch: rising AI-powered attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) outpace understaffed teams. Fragmented tools create visibility gaps and alert fatigue. To build resilience, organisations should consolidate platforms, automate responses and embed AI-driven detection, shifting from reactive firefighting to intelligence-led protection at scale. In the space of a few short years,…
Despite growing enforcement actions, most Gen Z consumers still trust finfluencers more than official financial guidance. (Image created via Gemini) While a growing number of young people are turning to social media for financial guidance, new research suggests much of the advice they consume may be inaccurate, misleading or potentially harmful. A global report by…
