London & Dar es Salaam — Shifra Ainomugisha from Uganda is the 2026 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year. Her award was announced at the 2026 Commonwealth Youth Awards ceremony in London, where she was also named the Africa Regional Winner. Before anyone called her an innovator, before artificial intelligence entered the conversation, before solar-powered…
Visa’s Lineshree Moodley South Africa’s consumers have spent the past few years ditching cash for taps, virtual cards and even payment rings. The country’s businesses, by and large, have not. That is the gap Visa is now targeting, announcing the local launch of Visa Commercial Pay in partnership with First National Bank and Rand Merchant…
Arctic Wolf’s Jason Oehley Arctic Wolf, a global cybersecurity leader, has announced the launch of its new Aurora Attack Surface Management (ASM) offering in South Africa, giving local organisations unprecedented visibility into their technology environments at a time when unmanaged assets, shadow IT and sprawling digital estates are driving significant cyber risk. The introduction of…
Image: Jernej Furman OpenAI introduced three audio models for its developer platform on Thursday, aiming to make voice-based software agents more conversational and capable of completing tasks in real time. The launch of the application programming interface (API) moves the ChatGPT maker beyond transcription and chat towards agents that can listen, translate and act during…
1m ago Iran claims “large volume” of attack drones “hitting U.S. positions” in Kuwait The Iranian Army claimed Friday to be unleashing “a large volume of Army attack drones” that it said were “hitting U.S. positions” in Kuwait. “Over the past hours, various types of attack drones from the Ground Forces carried out concentrated…
Starlink is preparing to launch its second generation of satellites, V2, with the ambitious goal of matching the speeds and responsiveness of traditional terrestrial networks. During a keynote at Mobile World Congress, Michael Nicolls, SpaceX’s senior vice president of Starlink engineering, explained that the ultimate objective for Starlink Mobile is to provide a connectivity experience…
The entry of China’s Haier into South Africa looks set to sharpen competition in the local home appliance market, raising pressure on established brands such as Samsung, LG and Hisense. The Chinese multinational launched its products at an event in Sandton on Monday, with a key focus on how a global player of Haier’s size…
BYD has officially launched the Sealion 5 in South Africa, introducing the country’s most affordable plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) to date. Priced at R499 900, the Sealion 5 signals BYD’s intention to aggressively pursue market share and go head-to-head with South Africa’s top-selling hybrid, the Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid. Speaking at the launch in Johannesburg,…
Valve’s new Linux-powered gaming console Valve on Wednesday laid out its most ambitious hardware push ever: a living-room “Steam Machine” console, a new Steam controller and a “Steam Frame” VR headset – all running SteamOS, Valve’s Linux-based platform. Crucially, Valve isn’t naming a price yet, but it did reveal the launch window: early 2026. At…
Global Voices Advox This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 1 August 2025. ‘Technology-facilitated gender-based violence isn’t a side effect of digital growth. It’s the price women pay for being online.’ In early 2025, researchers tracking African elections uncovered a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos targeting women journalists and female candidates in Ghana, Senegal,…
