Groupe Canal+ is gearing up to introduce its flagship streaming application across MultiChoice territories, including South Africa, following the recent registration of local digital infrastructure. Recent network visibility of a regional landing page indicates that the rollout is imminent, bringing a unified over-the-top (OTT) service designed to integrate third-party platforms like Netflix directly into the…
Anna Collard South Africans who have been scammed, hacked, extorted or harassed online now have a free place to turn for help. The Cyber Helpline, a UK charity, has launched a 12-month pilot in South Africa with local social impact organisation MiDO Academy, funded by Amazon Web Services. The service covers a wide range of…
Gehard Moolman LDV South Africa isn’t courting buyers whose fathers and grandfathers drove the same bakkie brand. CEO Gerhard Moolman wants the fleet owner replacing five vehicles who will try one LDV. Moolman, who took over in March after 23 years with Land Rover dealer groups, told Watts & Wheels‘ William Kelly that the brand’s…
South Africa’s Competition Commission has issued a formal warning to manufacturers of smartphones, home appliances, and consumer electronics, cautioning that restricting independent repairers could violate the Competition Act. The directive is detailed in the commission’s newly finalized Guidelines on Repair, Service and Maintenance Aftermarkets. Read: ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo Review: Two-screen titan The guidelines encompass…
South African owners of Hisense smart TVs have gained access to a dedicated 24/7 free-to-air sports channel, SportsCast Africa, integrated directly into the manufacturer’s proprietary VIDAA operating system. Available natively via the platform’s TV Channels feature, the service provides continuous sports coverage without requiring a paid subscription, user registration, or additional app downloads. Read: ASUS…
South Africans plagued by spam calls will have to wait another seven months to use the government’s new National Opt-Out Registry, despite its launch in Pretoria on Wednesday. The marketing industry’s own do-not-contact list, which the regulator says it won’t recognise, isn’t going anywhere. The National Consumer Commission (NCC), which runs the free registry, said…
Francis Halzen in 2018. Image: Reuters Belgian-American scientist Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating an observatory in Antarctic ice that detects high-energy neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles that can reveal otherwise inaccessible information about the cosmos. Halzen, 82, realised that pristine ice at the South Pole could be used to…
The local AI conversation has moved from job displacement panic towards autonomous AI agents, unmanaged ‘Shadow AI’, and emerging cybersecurity vulnerabilities that threaten corporate governance, data sovereignty and Popia compliance. There’s something happening here, and what it is may not be exactly clear. You know the stat that gets fired off often well: out of…
Anyone at your next board meeting could already be recording it on a phone left face down on the table. Smart glasses add video, shot at eye level, of everything the wearer looks at, including the slides and the screens. And nobody asks a colleague to take off their glasses. Meta and EssilorLuxottica said last…
Four years after Milkor earmarked five of its 380 drones for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), South Africa has still not bought one. The Cape Town-built aircraft is flying for a customer in the Middle East instead, Milkor says. “South Africa is not a direct customer in the sense that they have bought,”…
