Rising food prices and declining farm incomes are putting increasing pressure on the global food system, with up to 720 million people facing hunger last year, and billions more struggling to afford healthy diets. These numbers point to an even deeper crisis: in 2024, an estimated 2.3 billion people experienced moderate or severe food insecurity,…
There are 1.3 million civil servants on the state’s payroll. (Image by 123RF) Government has elevated professionalising the public service workforce as a key priority for state capacity, recommendingadequate training for priority technical skills, among others. This was highlighted recently as Maropene Ramokgopa, minister in the Presidency responsible for planning, monitoring and evaluation, detailed government’s…
Following its landmark acquisition of MultiChoice Group, French media giant Canal+ is exploring a major shift in how African viewers access content. The company is considering deploying its all-in-one streaming application to MultiChoice’s vast customer base in Southern and Eastern Africa, potentially bringing global partnerships with Apple TV+ and HBO Max under a single interface….
Apple plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday (paywall). The chatbot, code named Campos, will be embedded deeply into the iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems and will replace the current Siri interface, the report said, citing people…
President Masoud Pezeshkian strikes conciliatory tone in interview broadcast on state TV but accuses US and Israel of fuelling unrest that has killed dozens. Published On 11 Jan 202611 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share President Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged to overhaul Iran’s struggling economy, saying his government is “ready…
Google is rolling out a new wave of artificial intelligence features in Gmail, aiming to turn the e-mail service into what it has described as a more proactive “inbox assistant” as e-mail volumes continue to grow. The updates form part of Google’s broader push to embed Gemini across its consumer products, following similar integrations in…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so optimistic last year about his company’s Llama family of artificial intelligence models that he predicted they would become the…
Deputy Chief of Staff Mr. Eliud Owalo, speaking the 29th Annual National Conference of the Institute of Human Resources Management (IHRM) in Naivasha. PHOTO/UGC. By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT In a powerful address at the 29th Annual National Conference of the Institute of Human Resources Management (IHRM) in Naivasha, Deputy Chief of Staff Mr. Eliud Owalo has…
ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet. As an enterprise buyer, there are occasional windows of opportunity to lay in some IT products and services ahead of drought, or price spikes. We mostly get to see those in retrospect, the way we now know that early 2022 would have been an excellent time to stock up on…
Mark Zuckerberg Meta Platforms is planning its fourth overhaul of artificial intelligence efforts in six months, The Information reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the matter. The company is expected to divide its new AI unit, Superintelligence Labs, into four groups: a new “TBD Lab”, short for “to be determined”; a products team…
