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The cloud as commodity: So what’s the secret sauce?

Cloud adoption is becoming ubiquitous. How do cloud service providers ensure they stand apart?

The idea factory

Figma is a collaborative design platform that has gained momentum and designer loyalty since its launch in 2012.

Business
Tamsin Mackay

Data without diversity is dangerous

Women technologists pool their collective wisdom about how best to derive value from AI.

Roundtables
Matthew Burbidge

Hungry Lion’s appetite for innovation

With bold expansion plans on the cards for Hungry Lion, efficiency is a non-negotiable for the fast food brand.

Innovation
Joanne Carew

The final frontier

The space rockets that are filling up our orbits.

Innovation
James Francis

Come back to the office, they said

An issue with your work machine can be just the beginning of a bad day. What follows is usually a lengthy wait before a grumpy staffer from the IT department appears. But what if an issue could be fixed before it even occurs?

Roundtable
Matthew Burbidge

In the CISO we trust

A bank CISO will need to build on their cyber practices of the past, while focusing on emerging risks.

Business
Matthew Burbidge

At your service

How can organisations adapt their strategies to ensure they buy the right technologies so they deliver quality experiences for their employees?

Roundtables
Tamsin Mackay

What are you doing with your seat at the table?

Women continue to orchestrate transformation and growth across South African industries, and, at the Vodacom Women’s Day Breakfast, they opened up about connections, shared insights and discussed the future of women in business.

Event Archive
Staff Writer

You will meet a tall, dark stranger...

Can astrology help AI secure its future?

Innovation
James Francis

If the door is locked, make your own

Some of South Africa’s leading women in technology, business and innovation joined a conversation about the role of AI and the value of women.

Event Archive
Tamsin Mackay

Free games, some assembly required

Four storefronts, a handful of new logins and an afternoon of admin. Here's what Luna actually gets you in South Africa.

Innovation
Tiana Cline

How AI systems stay on track

Building proprietary harnesses is a way that humans can work with AI rather than against it.

Technology
Alistair Fairweather

What if your grocery basket could think for you?

Three big retailers are using AI to improve the shopping experience, but in different ways.

Innovation
Hilton Tarrant

The city's invisible borders

If South Africa's municipal boundaries don't match how people actually live, what exactly is being planned for?

Business
Tiana Cline

With a Fold, who needs a laptop?

Eight generations in, Samsung’s once-upon-a-time proof of concept foldable is all grown up.

Technology
Nafisa Akabor

Betting on stablecoins

This startup allows customers to accept payments and deposits in crypto and stablecoins with its Ezeebit API.

Innovation
Stephen Timm

A giant awakes

How a fintech behemoth emerged in plain sight in the informal market.

Business
Hilton Tarrant

The cost of confidence

Financing third-party resilience beyond checklists.

Business
Bernard Munyaradzi Chadenga

Hacking back

White House clears way for private cyber firms to hack foreign actors, and Amazon breaks ground on a massive new off-grid AI datacentre.

Technology
Matthew Burbidge

How I learned to stop worrying and love my Waymo

What it’s really like when there’s nobody sitting in the driver’s seat.

Innovation
Tiana Cline

No clear policy punctures EV ambitions

Local NEV policy is long overdue, considering the automotive sector contributes up to 5% of the country’s GDP.

Innovation
Nafisa Akabor

There will be blood

A visual and auditory masterpiece that leaves you terrified and delighted at the same time.

Innovation
Tamsin Mackay

How to fix the SABC

Providing news and entertainment to the millions who can afford nothing else is important, but the SABC cannot be allowed to wallow in sclerosis indefinitely.

Technology
Alistair Fairweather

A room of one's own

A commonality among effective teams is a quiet place to do focused work.

Business
Adam Oxford

Dis-Chem does some self-diagnosis

For Aliyah Allie and her team at X, bigly labs, the focus is on fixing the retail chemist's technical foundations so the business thrives.

Business
Joanne Carew

Bad memory: How to manage the storage crisis

Is software-defined storage a real way through the memory crisis, or does it just move the problem somewhere else?

Features
Tiana Cline

The AI will see you now

AI is rewriting the HR rulebook, changing everything from recruitment through to exit. But this innovation is not without its risks.

Features
Joanne Carew

A false sense of security

As ransomware evolves, backups have become the last line of defence, and the hardest to get right.

Features
Tiana Cline