WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new feature that lets users translate messages inside the app – part of an effort to make cross-language communication easier for its more than three billion users worldwide. Users who receive a message in a language they don’t understand can now long-press and select “Translate”. The app will then…
The transport department began holding workshops on new e-hailing rules last week as government gears up to improve safety for passengers and drivers using ride-hailing transport platforms like Uber. The first workshops were held with the nine provincial regulatory bodies and the National Public Transport Regulator, according to department spokesman Collen Msibi. “Dates for the…
Google will integrate Gemini into its Chrome web browser for users in the US starting on Thursday, just weeks after a federal judge spared the company from a forced breakup in an antitrust case. The company won’t have to sell the browser, a judge in Washington said earlier this month, handing a rare win to…
New York — Education funding faces US$3.2 billion decline by 2026, placing millions of children’s futures at risk As global education funding faces steep cuts, an estimated 6 million additional children could be out of school by the end of 2026, around one-third of them in humanitarian settings, UNICEF warned in a new analysis released…
Bruce Busansky, app platform specialist for sub-Saharan Africa at Red Hat. Quantum computing, open source, agentic AI and innovation are key to strategies being developed to future-proof organisations, according to Bruce Busansky, app platform specialist for sub-Saharan Africa at Red Hat. Speaking at the Red Hat Technology Innovation event hosted in Johannesburg this week, Busansky…
David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Don’t mess with DJ D-Sol — Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon’s stage name when he’s rocking the clubs in his other life as a DJ. U.S. President Donald…
New York — On July 1st, USAID officially shuts down and transfers operations to the U.S. State Department. Amid growing uncertainty about the future of U.S. foreign assistance structures and funding, supply chains that deliver life-saving treatment to malnourished children worldwide have broken down, triggering a global nutrition crisis. We are witnessing the dismantling of…
