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Integrating AI-enhanced sentiment analysis in global gold market trends for African traders

By leveraging artificial intelligence, traders can now access more accurate, real-time insights to make better-informed decisions on when to buy, hold, or sell gold

Cape Town Regional Director for Huawei Shaun van Zyl.

Huawei Cape Town Tech Club hosts dynamic dialogue on accelerating industrial intelligence

Security upgrades and new technology that allows for faster downloads announced, among others

Consumers should spend cautiously, despite the positive outlook for the year
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FinTech: The battle for control of Africa’s financial sector

It is time to develop policies that safeguard Africa’s technological sovereignty in finance

The technology’s unalterable digital trail would reduce fiscal leaks and prevent large-scale corruption draining the public purse. Photo: Supplied

South Africa must use 4IR technologies in the fight against corruption

While technology can help prevent illegal activities that harm economies and societies, it cannot do it alone

Disrupting corruption with a data-driven approach is possible. (Getty Images)

Machine learning and AI is coming for corrupt officials

Disrupting corruption with a data-driven approach is possible

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The future of work will likely be filled with human-machine partnership

Companies that foster AI literacy and data culture are best positioned to take advantage of technological changes

‘Boris the Baby Bot’: The little book about big data (Photo Archive)

‘Boris the Baby Bot’: The little book about big data

Boris the BabyBot has been dreamt up by researcher and writer Murray Hunter, who focuses on surveillance and data privacy

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You can’t hide who you are

Your every detail is being tracked online and you have little control over what will be done with it

The DST is working hard to ensure that South Africa has the human capacity and cyberinfrastructure for extracting knowledge in data assets

Harvesting the benefits of data

Data is becoming increasingly valuable – and the ability to read it timeously

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Big Brother set to watch each pupil

The secret move to monitor public school education will track children right into adulthood

Information overload: Bernie ­Fanaroff says the SKA is the ultimate big data machine – collecting a massive amount of radio data from ­celestial ­bodies.

Drive to decode array of big data

Information on a scale and of a type never seen before calls for a new kind of analysis and research.