While SA has largely embraced technology innovations, the country has yet to conquer the mobile money conundrum, as it’s caught in the grip of excessive legislation.
By July, decentralised finance-related hacks totalled $361 million, already making up three-quarters of the total hack volume this year, says CipherTrace.
As part of the agreement, Paxful’s customers will be able to utilise Ovex’s ‘Direct Transfer to Bank’ tool, which allows them to instantly convert their Bitcoin into fiat.
The use of social networks in the context of e-commerce transactions sees the rise of internet sensation ‘Brother Pomegranate’ amid the growing global trend of rural entrepreneurship.
The robo-advisor market balloons, as investors increasingly use digital platforms for automated, algorithm-driven investment services.
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law selects the four Southern Africa legal start-ups that will proceed to its global justice accelerator programme.
Doctors say finding matching donor hearts is even more challenging during COVID-19, and the new technology is now being used to save lives.
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy publishes the gazette on the lifting of the self-generation threshold to 100MW, without licensing.
Although there are more women breaking the glass ceiling in SA’s drone industry, the numbers are “still disappointingly low”, with only 10% of drone pilots being female.
The industry says the next 10 years promise to deliver much-needed skilled and unskilled work opportunities in South Africa.
Smart technology will greatly impact our future privacy, as our faces, the way we walk, our mannerisms and body language will be catalogued as identificational data.