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Scientists have developed a novel electronic switch that operates at speeds 1,000 times faster than current technology, potentially revolutionizing the field of ultra-high-speed electronics and data processing. Collaborators from the University of Regensburg and the University of Michigan have demonstrated a switch functioning in the petahertz frequency range, which equates to a million billion electrical…

Researchers from Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University have successfully harnessed AI to engineer a novel strain of E. coli bacteria that defies conventional biological norms by lacking one of the twenty standard amino acids integral to all known life forms. By specifically removing isoleucine from the ribosome—the cellular machinery responsible…

Written by Johan de Villiers Welcome to our latest quarterly newsletter. In this edition, I’ve been exploring a corner of the global technology economy that the international press has been shouting about, and the South African press, oddly, whispering about: the question of where the world’s artificial intelligence infrastructure is actually going to be built.…

Communications regulator Icasa has formally signalled that it cannot give full effect to communications minister Solly Malatsi’s December 2025 policy direction on broad-based black economic empowerment without an amendment to the Electronic Communications Act (ECA). In a brief media statement on Wednesday, the regulator said it had communicated its position to the ministry and remained…

NVision has raised a $55 million Series B financing round. The investment led by global healthcare giant Abbott signals a paradigm shift in how diseases like cancer are diagnosed, monitored, and treated using the power of quantum mechanics. The round was anchored by Abbott, marking its first strategic move into the quantum diagnostics space. Other…

Seoul Learn, the city-run education welfare platform, has surpassed 40,000 registered users since its 2021 launch, according to an Asiae report. Per Asiae, Seoul City announced it will introduce AI-based English learning and career development content on the platform starting in June. Read More

New Zealand organisations are expected to spend nearly $5.6 billion on public cloud services in 2026, an increase of 20.8 per cent from 2025, as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads accelerates. Spending on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) will see the largest growth (and is the largest spending category at $2.6 billion) with an increase of 27.2…

Higher education institutions have frequently been targets of ransomware groups and efforts to extort data, but a cyberattack on a single software platform has rarely disrupted the everyday functioning of thousands of schools so extensively. Canvas, a widely adopted digital learning platform, was placed into “maintenance mode” following a data breach at Instructure, the company…

In April, Microsoft supported an initiative named the Autonomous Agents Foundation (AAF) to rigorously evaluate the newest AI coding agents against realistic cybersecurity threats. The results, disclosed recently, should serve as a warning for anyone considering these AI tools as full replacements for human developers without thorough supervision. The investigation revealed that several top-tier AI…