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TechAfrica News ·
Consumer Finance – Souhoola announced that it has received approval from the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) to conduct consumer finance activities using financial technology through V-Lens, marking a new step in the company’s...
iAfrica.com ·
Common Sense Media, a US-based independent nonprofit that provides age-based ratings, reviews, and advice on media and technology for kids and families, recently rated OpenAI’s recent release, ChatGPT for Teens at “unacceptable risk”...
iAfrica.com ·
Johannesburg-based BioInformatiCo takes second-place in an international AI challenge with African technology designed to accelerate clinical trial database preparation, improve data quality and help research teams make limited funding...
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Revenue declines 3% in the first nine months of 2026, as new owner Canal+ works to turn around the African pay-TV group.
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
Organizations are rapidly implementing AI, but employees often feel left behind about how AI is changing their roles. While AI can help get work done faster, it won’t necessarily help produce better quality work if employees aren’t...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
Earlier this year, I wrote about how vibe coding an AI governance platform forced me to rethink governance itself . Building agents took the problem much further. When I built the platform, I was the operator.
iAfrica.com ·
Vodacom Group and law firm Bowmans have published a policy paper arguing that African AI regulation should be built around the continent’s own economic and social conditions rather than imported wholesale from elsewhere — and introduced...
iAfrica.com ·
Software development has entered a new phase, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) coding assistants able to generate functions, suggest fixes, create APIs, and accelerate application development in a fraction of the usual time. For teams...
TechCentral ·
Rand stablecoin issuers want treasury's revised crypto rules to treat their tokens as payments, not capital.
iAfrica.com ·
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation are changing how work is done across industries. From warehouses and manufacturing environments to recruitment, administration and customer service, technology is increasingly becoming part of...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
For the past two years, the conversation around AI has focused on which industries it will disrupt. But AI’s rapid growth is also creating a major infrastructure challenge. As investment pours into data centres and supporting...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
As AI becomes increasingly embedded across the workplace, organisations need solutions that not only deliver strong performance but support the way their employees work. Lenovo unveiled its latest commercial portfolio, advancing Hybrid...
CIO Africa ·
Public-sector and international organisations report the highest share of any group whose cyber resilience exceeds requirements, at 24 per cent....
DefenceWeb ·
Embraer is continuing to pursue opportunities to supply its C-390 Millennium multi-mission military transport aircraft to the South African Air [...]
TechAfrica News ·
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being deployed across Africa faster than some countries can introduce the regulatory frameworks needed to manage its risks and fully realise its benefits. According to Vodacom Group , AI governance must...
TechAfrica News ·
Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.P.C. ( “Zain Group ”; ticker: ZAIN) and Ooredoo Q.P.S.C. (“Ooredoo”; ticker: ORDS) announced the first closing of their regional tower transaction, bringing together the initial tower portfolios...
TechCentral ·
A new policy direction asks Icasa to define essential facilities and sets out a dispute process that could pause roll-outs.
TechAfrica News ·
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), in partnership with Cisco , convened the English West and Central Africa Instructor Safari Conference 2026 at the UBEC Digital Resource Centre in Abuja, Nigeria, to...
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Picsart, the AI media production and distribution platform, where 100M+ creators and businesses worldwide make, market and monetize content, today launched Marketing Studio, bringing content creation, advertising strategy, creative...
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TOURISE, the world’s premier platform for shaping the future of global tourism, today released IDEAS That Travel, a new report developed in collaboration with LIONS Advisory.
TechCentral · · Medium severity
Arctic Wolf's Jason Oehley and Andre Den Hond explain why South African boards underestimate what a cyberattack really costs, and what to do about it.
Semiconductor Engineering ·
Key Takeaways: Foundries have been doing backend work for advanced packages. OSATs are now taking that on. This particularly affects 2.5D and panel assembly with new equipment and materials. Hybrid bonding is mostly a foundry activity...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
Key Takeaways: Moving advanced packaging from wafer to panel changes more than available area. Processes developed around wafer geometry, handling, and equipment have to be reconsidered at panel scale. Larger panels amplify dimensional...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
By Kaladhar Radhakrishnan, Nicolas Butzen, and Vishal Javvaji The semiconductor industry has embraced multi-chip and stacked-die architectures as the primary path for continued performance scaling. As monolithic designs become more...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
As their dimensions continue to shrink, conventional gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistors may face growing challenges, such as leakage, mobility, resistance, and manufacturing variability. A proposed self-aligned complementary...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
Key Takeaways: The semiconductor industry reached $1 trillion years early, but keeping pace with demand now depends on systems integration as much as transistor scaling. Packaging, photonics, power, and test are converging into one...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
For decades, silicon characterization has been built around Process, Voltage, and Temperature, or PVT. We characterize devices across process variation, sweep voltage and frequency, control temperature, generate SHMOO plots, and...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
At the recent SPIE Photomask Technology + Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography conference, an expert panel discussed the growing importance of edge placement error (EPE). I had the pleasure of joining moderator Jed Rankin of IBM and fellow...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
At NVIDIA GTC Berlin, Vertiv and NVIDIA introduced an AI factory approach that combines rapid configuration and virtual validation of pre-engineered reference architectures with factory-built deployment. The approach is designed to move...
TechAfrica News ·
Airtel Uganda has welcomed Buremba Senior Secondary School in Kazo District to the Airtel Africa Foundation ’s Adopt A School Programme, extending support to 719 learners and 23 teachers. Under the programme, the school received a...
Tech In Africa ·
Ghana is working swiftly to implement formal cryptocurrency regulations by the end of December, underscoring a wider effort across Africa to manage a rapidly expanding digital asset market that currently lacks clear oversight. However,...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
SANS Institute has announced the 2026 edition of SANS Gulf Region. The event every year brings together cybersecurity professionals for an extensive programme of hands-on training designed to address the Middle East’s threat landscape....
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Schneider Electric , AVEVA , Nscale , and Start Campus , announced one of the first pilots of an end-to-end digital twin developed using the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint , part of NVIDIA DSX Sim. The Immersive Twin pilot marks a...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Nutanix announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Netris to deliver new AI solutions that aim to simplify the infrastructure required for production AI and help organisations bring new capabilities online faster. By...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Apple has introduced a radically unique design language and logo for Apple Music, abandoning its traditional aesthetic in favor of a dynamic, physics-based approach. The new visual identity features a musical note floating beneath...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Following its transition to a private company and the assumption of $20 billion in debt, Electronic Arts (EA) has initiated a sweeping corporate restructuring. The overhaul includes a 3% reduction in its global workforce, impacting...
TechCentral ·
MultiChoice revenue fell 3% like for like in the first nine months, though the decline eased in the third quarter.
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Airbnb is introducing clearer guidelines on what hosts can reasonably ask guests to do before checking out, addressing one of the most common frustrations among travelers using the platform. Under the updated policy , hosts may still...
TechCabal · · Unconfirmed
Nigeria reportedly bleeds millions of dollars annually due to its reliance on cloud infrastructure controlled by a handful of foreign big tech firms, according to Melanie Hui, Chief Executive Officer of Luminate, a global organisation...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), operating through its MOBILIST programme, has officially subscribed for approximately $15 million in shares of Quickmart’s impending initial public offering (IPO) ....
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