Mohammed Amin, Senior Vice President, CEEMETA, Dell Technologies. Across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Türkiye and Africa (CEEMETA), the public sector AI conversation has changed dramatically. Just two years ago, the government was focused on developing AI strategies, identifying use cases and launching pilot projects. Today, many public sector organisations are already deploying…
Humanoid, a UK-based AI and robotics company building industrial humanoid robots, announced a $152 million Series A financing at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation. This funding brings the total amount raised to date to $270 million. The round was led by Prime Movers Lab, a venture capital firm focused on investments in breakthrough scientific startups…
South Africa has, for the first time, formally earmarked the entire upper 6GHz band for mobile networks, handing operators a potential 700MHz of prime mid-band spectrum and settling – at least directionally – a global tug of war between the cellular industry and Wi-Fi advocates over the most valuable unassigned frequencies in telecommunications. The decision…
Vaal University of Technology students in one of the newly-revamped specialist teaching labs. (Image: supplied) To mark its diamond jubilee, the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) has announced a R5 million investment in revamped science laboratories and a postgraduate learning space. The investment, funded through a Department of Higher Education and Training grant, has modernised…
MTN and Vodacom have launched separate legal challenges against communications regulator Icasa over new consumer protection rules – including mandatory rollover of unused data bundles – that are due to come into force in January 2027. News24 first reported that MTN served court papers on 22 July asking for the End-User and Subscriber Service Charter…
Mobix Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOBX) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vision Aerial, Inc., a U.S.-based designer and manufacturer of American-built, National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)-compliant unmanned aerial systems. The definitive agreement moves the transaction beyond the previously announced letter of intent and represents a major step toward closing an…
Solly Malatsi, minister of communications and digital technologies. South Africa is at a “leapfrog” stage in AI adoption, and Huawei South Africa has called on organisations, policymakers, technology companies and government to act proactively to take advantage of emerging opportunities. The call came at the annual Huawei South Africa Connect 2026 event hosted this week…
Ali Yilmaz, Senior Manager of Solution Architects for Turkey and MEA at Picus Security. Modern cyber security has to move at machine speed to outperform automated attacks, which can exploit vulnerabilities at scale in a matter of minutes. This is according to Ali Yilmaz, Senior Manager of Solution Architects for Turkey and MEA at Picus…
Google’s new selfie verification system adds another layer of identity confirmation for eligible consumer Google accounts. (Image created via ChatGPT) Google has introduced a new account recovery feature that allows users to use a short selfie video as a backup method to regain access to their Google accounts when they are locked out, or unable…
South Africa’s headline consumer inflation accelerated faster than expected to 5% year on year in June, from 4.5% in May, data from Stats SA showed on Wednesday. The June print marks the fourth consecutive month of accelerating inflation — the rate has climbed steadily from 3% in February, when it briefly touched the Reserve Bank’s…
