How to read 6mn number plates a day
Navic has amassed a database of over 10bn licence plate reads, all of which take up 1.5PB. This can be tricky to manage.
The blessing of the brain-computer interface
Brain-computer interfaces are rapidly progressing from concept to commercialisation.
The cellphone’s secret superpower
How earthquake detection can create smarter societies.
The foldable phone comes of age
The new Fold and Flip shows how the category has evolved, but also how much further it has to go.
The LLM poisoning risk
When it comes to LLMs, skepticism may be our best defence.
Seeing Gauteng in a new light
Using night-time satellite imagery, GCRO researcher Yashena Naidoo is building a high-resolution view of Johannesburg’s economy, one pixel at a time.
Author of his own success
Durandt Eksteen, NEC XON’s CIO, on using AI and managing IT at the systems integrator.
Addressing the other digital divide
It’s complicated to explain to parents – who have their own opinions and experience – just why something is a Very Bad Idea, or obviously a con.
How to think like a hacker
To make cyber adoption stick at work, focus on the risk to you and your family.
When a spark kindled a career in cyber
Tshego Gaetsewe, winner of the Wired4Women Rising Star 2024 award and 2025’s Outstanding Female Security Specialist finalist, speaks about her career highlights.
My crash course in a VR helicopter
Realistic, repeatable and low-risk, Airbus' H125 simulator prepares pilots for the kinds of mistakes you only want to make once.
‘Nobody wants to be the Nokia of AI’
Datacentre growth, driven by AI, will see a surge of spending this year. All without a pay-off.