Apple has officially introduced the Apple Watch Series 12, featuring a suite of conversational tracking tools branded as Audio Intelligence, a completely re-engineered health sensor platform, and the long-awaited return of a premium ceramic case option. Designed to offer deeper contextual awareness and elevated personal health tracking, the new smartwatch directly targets high-performance rivals across…
South African security provider CAP is expanding the role of CCTV beyond traditional surveillance, using artificial intelligence to turn existing camera networks into business intelligence tools. Its SmartGuard division, which provides CCTV solutions to more than 400 clients across residential estates, corporate campuses and commercial and industrial properties, currently monitors almost 5,000 cameras. The division…
For most operations leaders, a point-of-sale system is where a transaction ends. A customer taps a card, a receipt prints, the sale closes. Fatima Khota, business unit manager for Rectron’s Automation and Data Capturing division. Image supplied Facilities management sits somewhere else entirely, in a different department, often a different budget line, dealing with a…
Nairobi — Artificial intelligence has captured the world’s imagination. Every week brings another breakthrough model, AI assistant or prediction that technology will fundamentally reshape howwe live and work. Yet beneath the excitement lies a more important question: what makesartifi cial intelligence valuable at scale? The answer is not simply better algorithms or more powerful models….
Huawei hosted the Huawei eKit Forum as a breakaway session at Huawei South Africa Connect 2026, bringing distribution partners together under the theme “Grow with Huawei eKit: Distribution Solutions & Partner Program”. The forum introduced the HUAWEI eKit 4+10+N SME Intelligence Solutions, an extensive portfolio of over 400 products built for South Africa’s SME market,…
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…
Yenayena Ngidi, Product Manager, Workspace at Canon South Africa. Canon South Africa today announces that it has been recognised by Keypoint Intelligence with the 2026-2028 Most Energy Efficient Toner-Based A3 Brand Award and the 2026-2028 Most Energy Efficient Toner-Based A4 Brand Award. These accolades are based on Keypoint Intelligence’s rigorous testing methodology, which measures energy…
Novastar Ventures and Google launched an Applied AI Lab for African startups and researchers building artificial intelligence tools in healthcare, agriculture and education. Applications opened on July 1. The lab is backed by Google’s AI Futures Fund and supported by Google DeepMind and Google Research. The first cohort will select between 5 and 10 startups…
One of South Africa’s most senior police officers has survived an attempted assassination in Johannesburg, police say. Suspended deputy crime intelligence boss Maj-Gen Feroz Khan was shot on Sunday evening as he was driving home and has since been rushed to hospital for emergency surgery, local media say. The shooting comes just days before Khan…
A former high-ranking Ukrainian intelligence official has been sentenced to life in prison for spying for Russia’s FSB security service. Col Dmytro Kozyura was found guilty of high treason under martial law, Ukraine’s prosecutor general said. He was previously chief of staff of the Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) anti-terrorism centre. An operation codenamed “rat”…
