Patrick Pleul/Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that US government cuts in support for electric vehicle makers could lead to a “few rough quarters” for the company before a wave of revenue from self-driving software and services begins late next year. Shares fell nearly 5% after Musk responded on a quarterly results conference…
The Kuunda STEAM hackathon targets under-resourced schools to ensure no learner is left behind. Standard Bank Group, in partnership with the Kuunda Disrupt Programme and Gordon Road Girls’ School, has launched the science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) coding challenge in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). According to a statement, the initiative brings together 21 quintile level…
Netflix has launched an on-the-job training initiative in South Africa aimed at nurturing talent in the country’s television and film production industry. The US streaming giant said the ScreenCraft Pathway programme has been developed in partnership with the Gauteng Film Commission and the KwaZulu-Natal Tourism and Film Authority. It will be administered by Tshikululu Social…
Create websites to sell. (Image: Domains) Thinking of selling online? With the number of online shoppers in South Africa expected to grow from 11.7 million to over 21.5 million by 2029, there’s never been a better time to take your products to the internet. And with Site Builder, Domains.co.za’s website builder solution, you can create…
SpaceX’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk’s powerful satellite internet system. Users in the US and Europe began experiencing the outage at around 9pm SAST, according to Downdetector, a crowdsourced outage tracker. Starlink, which has more than…
MoData helps clients digitise manual processes. (Image: MoData) South Africa is poised for a digital currency shift, and technology innovator MoData states that it is positioned to play a key role in underpinning the next generation of money. As South Africa accelerates its digital currency ambitions, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is laying the…
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Laure Andrillon/Reuters Intel is going to end the year with a workforce that is over a fifth smaller than last year, it said on Thursday, and new CEO Lip-Bu Tan presented a blueprint for a more cost-disciplined, streamlined chip maker that would issue “no more blank cheques”. The job cuts —…
Nicolas Callegari, founder and CXO, Decapod Customer Experience. The desire to differentiate the business and enhance the customer experience leads companies to “throw AI” at processes, but this does not work, said Nicolas Callegari, founder and CXO at Decapod Customer Experience. This approach leads to the business using resources to try solving problems that don’t…
Obsidian Systems chief marketing officer Angela Ho On 30 June 2025, more than 100 professionals from across South Africa’s leading finance, telecommunications, retail and IT sectors tuned in to the highly anticipated webinar “Automation in Jira: Do More with Less”. This collaborative event was hosted by Obsidian Systems and Atlassian, and powered by TechCentral. In…
Fraudsters sometimes create entirely fake taxpayer profiles using stolen ID numbers. As tax season kicks off with manual filing now open, cyber criminals are ramping up phishing scams and leaked credentials to get access to South African Revenue Service (SARS) taxpayer profiles and steal refunds. In most cases, scammers break into a taxpayer’s SARS account…
