For African governments, the significance of China’s humanoid-robotics programme is not that robots may one day appear on African battlefields. It is a diagnostic case of how a dual-use technology can move from commercial deployment to military relevance faster than the institutions responsible for assessing and governing it can adapt. Africa’s stake is therefore not…
Kigali, Rwanda — Africa is emerging as the world’s fastest-growing technology market, with its innovation ecosystem attracting increasing global investment. The European Investment Bank’s recent €40 million commitment to the sector underscores this growing confidence. However, this surge in technological innovation has yet to address some of the continent’s most persistent challenges – hunger, food…
Sitting in her Vienna office ahead of a pivotal UN gathering in Abu Dhabi, Monica Juma is focused on a simple reality: crime has evolved faster than many of the institutions designed to combat it. Criminal networks now move money, goods and information across borders at lightning speed, exploiting everything from new technologies to global…
Voice assistants, smart-speakers, and voice-assisted systems are becoming increasingly popular in the modern workplace. However, this increasingly popular wave of voice-activated accessibility is creating a whole new privacy vulnerability for the organisation. A 2025 review on Privacy in Speech Technology found that voice interfaces can hear conversations occurring in the same acoustic space and can…
Matthew Farquhar, CFP, Executive Director at SureStart. (Picture: Supplied) Most insurance distribution models scale the traditional way; more customers mean more staff – more brokers, more back-office support staff and a larger claims team. SureStart, an authorised financial services provider (FSP 47233), an independent digital insurance broker and embedded insurance expert, has taken a different…
DCX and Liteon Announcing a Strategic Partnership LITEON Technology (2301.TW) today announced a strategic investment in DCX POLSKA Sp. z o.o. (“DCX Liquid Cooling Systems”), a Warsaw, Poland-based provider of advanced liquid cooling systems for AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) data centers. Upon closing of the transaction, LITEON will hold approximately 25% equity ownership in…
Across Africa, assisted reproductive technology (ART) is expanding at an unprecedented pace. Fertility clinics are opening in countries where, until recently, couples had little choice but to travel abroad, often to Europe, India, or within the continent South Africa–to access in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and related treatments. The costs of travel alone made this a…
Praesignis CEO, Anja Kruger, with Busisiwe Ndaba, Head of International Certification Programmes at Praesignis, and Ayanda Dhlamini, a Praesignis alumnus of whom the company is incredibly proud. Praesignis was honoured to be part of AWS Summit 2026, an event that brought together technology professionals, businesses, students, cloud enthusiasts and industry leaders to explore the latest…
Image: Nasa The design for Africa2Moon, the African radio telescope selected to fly to the lunar south pole aboard China’s Chang’e-8 mission in 2029, has been published in Nature Astronomy. The paper sets out how the instrument is meant to work – and the mechanism is stranger than the mission summary suggested. The three Bounced…
A total solar eclipse took place in Iceland and Spain as crowds gathered to watch. The eclipse is sweeping across Europe with a 290-300 km-wide path of totality. Europe is experiencing its first total solar eclipse in 27 years. Published On 12 Aug 202612 Aug 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share…
