Prakriti Singh, regional executive vice president for core payments at Mastercard Mastercard will not disclose what it earns when a transaction settles in stablecoins rather than over its card rails, and it will not predict whether AI shopping agents will grow or shrink the volumes moving across its network. What it will say – repeatedly…
A charging port is seen on a Mercedes Benz EQC 400 4Matic electric vehicle at the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 13, 2019. Mark Blinch | Reuters The automotive industry’s increasing use of over-the-air technology to update vehicle systems makes it more susceptible to cyberattacks, analysts say, urging more intervention in the…
Climate tech’s part in the venture funding became dramatically pronounced in 2025, when it alone contributed 40 per cent or $1.5 billion, compared to other years in the near-decade period under review, the study said. That was up from 13 per cent or $206 million in 2016. Climate tech, the field of technologies and solutions…
Altron Digital Business MD Craig Stewart Altron Digital Business (ADB) has concluded a first-of-its-kind benchmark study focused on how employees experience technology across eight major institutions in the financial services industry. The Employee Technology Experience Index (TEXI) measured employee sentiment across eight core technology categories using a standardised scoring methodology. The findings reveal the scale…
Brain-computer interfaces, a nascent technology, establishes a direct link between human minds and devices. BrainCo Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which uses implants in people’s heads to compensate for disabilities, has become the poster child for so-called brain-computer interfaces (BCI). But some companies are betting that mass-market neural tech won’t require opening the skull at all. BCI…
The author, the CSIR’s Dithoto Modungwa Somewhere in South Africa today, a family will get a phone call no one wants to receive. Around 12 000 people die on our roads every year – on the N3, on rural district roads, in taxis, on the way to school. We have grown so used to these numbers…
Gridwise 10X wins the Youth Tech Expo G13 Hackathon. Gridwise 10X from Johannesburg has been named the overall winner of the 2026 Youth Tech Expo (YTE) G13 Hackathon, run by the Gauteng Department of e-Government in partnership with Microsoft South Africa The hackathon began in June with regional competitions held across Gauteng in partnership with…
A study conducted by Altron Digital Business (ADB) found that a staggering 88% of South African employees agree that technology enables them to do their best work. ADB concluded the benchmark study, focusing on how employees experience technology across eight major institutions in the financial services industry. The Employee Technology Experience Index (TEXI) measured employee…
BMW Group South Africa’s regional distribution centre in Waterfall, Midrand, supplies BMW, MINI and BMW Motorrad parts to retailers across southern Africa. (Photo: Supplied) BMW Group South Africa has established a storage and handling area for sixth-generation battery components at its regional distribution centre (RDC) in Midrand, preparing its local after-sales network for the Neue…
Lady Mariéme Jamme, SA’s special envoy for technology and AI. (Image supplied) Government has appointed technology leader and digital education advocate Lady Mariéme Jamme as the country’s special envoy for technology and artificial intelligence (AI). This is according to the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, which says the appointment was announced at…
