World oil demand is set to fall further than previously expected this year, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, as the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz deepens. The IEA forecast demand will drop by 1.6 million barrels a day in 2026. That’s 510,000 barrels a day more than its last monthly…
[Daily Maverick] Falling EU fertility, an ageing workforce and cautious regulation threaten Europe’s competitiveness; policymakers must balance family policy, skilled immigration and AI-led automation to sustain prosperity.
Shoprite’s Neil Schreuder Sixty60 grew sales 34.5% to R25.5-billion in the year to 28 June, according to a voluntary operational update Shoprite Holdings published on Wednesday morning – and on TechCentral’s calculations the delivery platform accounted for more than a third of everything the group grew. Shoprite added R18.1-billion in merchandise sales from continuing operations…
Mombasa, Kenya — As funding shrinks, civic space narrows and opposition to sexual and reproductive rights grows across Africa, advocates are gathering in Mombasa with a simple message: progress cannot be taken for granted. More than 250 advocates, policymakers, youth leaders, healthcare providers, researchers, civil society organisations and community leaders from across the continent have…
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Alongside upcoming Siri AI capabilities, Apple appears to be developing a photo authentication feature to verify real-world photos. Code uncovered in the latest iOS 27 beta by 9to5Mac reveals references to Apple Reference Image, a system designed to confirm whether an image was genuinely captured using an iPhone camera. Read: AI models design viable synthetic…
Technically “Air Force One” is the call sign for any aircraft carrying the US president. But on this occasion, the C-32A used the call sign “Reach 18”, while the aircraft carrying the journalists continued to use “AF1” in order to keep up the ruse. Remaining on the original aircraft were members of Trump’s cabinet, according…
Emmanuel Tzingakis, technical manager for Africa and venture markets at TrendAI. (Photo: Supplied) Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the economics of cyber crime, lowering the technical barrier to sophisticated attacks while creating new security and governance challenges for companies. This was a central message from speakers at TrendAI’s Spark 2026 event in Sun City last…
Shortly before Air Force One took off from Turkey at the end of last month’s NATO summit, President Trump secretly slipped away from the presidential jet and was whisked to another plane with the help of an airport catering truck, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the matter. The ruse was employed…
Herotel CEO Van Zyl Botha Herotel intends to sell Amazon’s low-Earth orbit satellite broadband at prices that closely track its existing fibre packages, and will carry the currency risk on terminals landed in South Africa, CEO Van Zyl Botha has told the TechCentral Show podcast. It is the clearest signal yet on what Evry will…
