Absa CEO Kenny Fihla with home affairs minister Leon Schreiber Absa and the department of home affairs have launched South Africa’s first bank-based mobile unit for smart ID renewals — a vehicle that will take identity services directly into remote, peri-urban and underserved communities, starting in Gauteng. The unit, unveiled at Absa’s Tembisa branch on…
Canal+ is aggressively moving to embed MultiChoice’s streaming ecosystem directly into African living rooms. In the clearest sign yet of a post-satellite strategy, the newly enlarged media giant is rebuilding its entire distribution model around connected televisions rather than traditional satellite decoders. Read: Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Review: Brilliant brains, flawed physics Effective 1 June,…
Just twenty-four hours after Wired exposed dormant facial recognition code inside Meta’s smart glasses companion app, the tech giant quietly pushed a software update to purge the software. Discovered on June 4, the internal code, dubbed “Name Tag”, was embedded within the core Meta AI application required to pair the wearable hardware to smartphones over…
Want to be a young retiree – or just have more financial freedom? Here’s 5 steps to set you on the right path. At some point, you’ve probably thought about it. How good it would feel to start your mornings unhurried, enjoying your perfectly brewed flat white in peace, without the crushing pressure to open…
From AI-powered transit systems to digital twins and flood-proof parks, cities are embracing technology at an unprecedented scale. But as innovation accelerates, experts warn that inclusion, trust and security will determine who truly benefits. At a sprawling urban expo in Baku, visitors paused before giant digital screens flickering with flood simulations, subway control systems and…
The department of home affairs plans to expand its smart ID rollout to 750 bank branches by year-end – including self-service terminals at Capitec branches – citing the early success of an eight-week pilot that has processed more than 118 000 applications. Speaking during his department’s budget vote in parliament on Friday, home affairs minister Leon…
Home Affairs minister Dr Leon Schreiber. (Photograph: Supplied) The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has, in eight weeks, processed 118 434 smart IDs through its digital partnership with banks. It aims to offer this service at 750 bank branches by the end of the year. This is according to minister Dr Leon Schreiber, who today…
Habib Mahakian, Vice-President for Southern and Sub-Saharan Africa, Dell Technologies. The conventional case for storage modernisation often focuses on the benefits of upgrading to a new environment. A stronger case starts with understanding the cost of staying in the current one. That cost is growing fast and is less visible in day-to-day operations. Making it…
Washington, DC — As we’re all being painfully reminded, cutting off for any length of time the fifth of the world’s oil supply that passes through the Strait of Hormuz has an extraordinarily negative impact on commerce and lives here and everywhere. But what if we could get even half of that oil another way?…
In a massive warehouse in Shanghai, dozens of humanoid robots are being trained to do simple, repetitive tasks. Controlled remotely, these robots work around 17 hours a day, folding T-shirts, making sandwiches, and opening and closing a door. The goal is to generate large amounts of data, use it to train machines, and eventually introduce…
