Traditionally, a university education was considered a safe bet for career success – but with today’s rapid pace of change, school leavers now have more options than previously. Image source: DC Studio from Freepik In fact, depending on your career path, choosing an alternative training provider which allows for on-the-job learning could actually give you…
After seven years since its initial announcement, Meta has finally started rolling out advertisements on WhatsApp, visible exclusively within the “Updates” tab. The company assures users who primarily use the app for personal chats with family and friends that their experience will remain unchanged. This also applies to two other new features: channel subscriptions and…
Barry Neethling, Chief Technology Officer for First Technology Group. (Image: Supplied) Humans – long acknowledged as the weakest link in cyber security – are now weaker than ever before in the face of advanced AI phishing and hacking techniques. This risk is increasing as the end of Windows 10 support looms. This is according to…
Number 1519 Connecticut Avenue lies just north of Dupont Circle, just over a 20-minute walk from the White House in Washington, DC. In 1921, the inventor Charles Francis Jenkins set up his laboratory and offices there, upstairs from a car dealership. Today there are no obvious external indications of this famous resident, nor of his…
YouTube Shorts will soon incorporate Veo 3, YouTube’s advanced AI video generation model, later this year. This announcement came from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan during a keynote at Cannes Lions. Read: iPadOS 26 unleashes Mac-like productivity Currently, Shorts creators can utilize the previous-generation Veo 2 model for features like generating backgrounds with Dream Screen and…
There is a need for 6 600 legal e-hailing and metered taxi operators in the Cape Town metropolitan area. Cape Town’s urban mobility directorate, in collaboration with the Western Cape government’s provincial regulatory entity (PRE), has initiated a two-phased process to support e-hailing and metered taxi operators. This, says the city, is to meet the…
It’s hard to think of a more extraordinary business deal than Facebook’s US$19-billion acquisition of WhatsApp in February 2014. Its creators were outliers. With a lean staff of just a few dozen people, they had no marketing department, no sign on the door and had spent zero cents from their sole investor, Sequoia Capital. But…
Late Wednesday night, around 11 PM CT, a massive explosion occurred at SpaceX’s Massey’s Testing Center in Starbase, Texas. The incident happened as Ship 36 was preparing for a static fire test, a crucial step before its planned 10th Starship flight. Read: iPadOS 26 unleashes Mac-like productivity SpaceX quickly issued a statement, confirming that “A…
As AI replaces human roles, the tech sector could lose as many as 235 000 positions this year. Amazon has warned that artificial intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI (GenAI), will trim its workforce as the technology will “change the way our work is done”. The company, the world’s fourth most valuable in terms of market…
The number of MVNOs in the South African market continues to grow quickly, but other aspects of the market – including the number of participating mobile network operators and network enablement platforms – have also expanded since TechCentral last updated this list in 2024. The three newest MVNOs in South Africa are Old Mutual Connect,…
