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Nigeria launches national blockchain policy
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MTN digitises payments for underserved with MoMo Pay
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State looks to rid itself of ‘ghost workers’
National Treasury readies reforms to improve the quality of spending and root out waste through a new data-driven approach.
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Tax adjustment for lower-end smartphones takes effect
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Home affairs pins hopes on AI to boost productivity, reduce errors
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SA teens officially have Instagram Teen Accounts
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MultiChoice, Canal+ merger deal passes CompCom hurdle
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Nedbank fends off R7.5bn in cyber fraud attempts
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R1m up for grabs in SA’s inaugural tech challenge
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SA robotics, coding teacher gets global award
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Middle East’s Leading AI Powerhouse TII Launches Two New AI Models: Falcon Arabic - the First Arabic Model in the Falcon Series & Falcon-H1, a Best-in-Class High-Performance Model
Falcon-H1 continues to support European-origin languages and for the first time has scalable capability to support over 100 languages, thanks to a multilingual tokenizer trained on diverse datasets.
Technology Innovation Institute and AI71 Collaborate with Amazon Web Services to Scale AI Innovations in the UAE and Beyond
The collaboration will expand global access to TII’s Falcon models and AI71’s enterprise AI products, with a focus on access, privacy, and automation tailored to industry needs.
Xsight Labs Announces Availability of E1 – Revolutionizing the DPU Market with the Industry’s Unparalleled Fully Software-Defined Network Architecture
Xsight Labs, a leading fabless semiconductor company providing end-to-end connectivity for next-generation hyperscale, edge and AI data center networks, today announced availability of its Arm®-based E1-SoC for cloud and edge AI data centers.
Rigaku Collaborates on X-ray Analysis of Fusuma-e by Maruyama Okyo
Rigaku will continue to contribute to the preservation of cultural treasures and transmission of them to future generations through science and technology.
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NetApp Builds AI Infrastructure on NVIDIA AI Data Platform
As businesses invest in AI to solve complex business challenges, they need intelligent data infrastructure that can remove the data silos that slow technical innovation.