Tag: World Wide Worx

Samsung has launched three folding phones at once, each aimed at a different kind of customer. It is the clearest indication yet that foldable phones have become a market of their own. The Galaxy Z Flip8 folds into a compact square. The passport-shaped Z Fold8 opens into a screen intended mainly for content. Meanwhile, the Z Fold8 Ultra targets productivity and high-end photography.

Liverpool Football Club (FC) plays in a stadium that holds just over 60,000 people, but its fan base runs into the hundreds of millions. That gap creates a problem the club cannot solve through football alone. While a crowd in a stadium moves together, a global following does not. It spreads across time zones, devices, habits and local gatherings. Each supporter experiences the club in a different way.

The creator economy is broken. The internet promised that creators would finally escape gatekeepers. Anyone with talent, persistence and an audience could build a career on their own terms. Yet many creators have discovered that visibility and income do not necessarily mean the same thing. Across music, video, publishing and social media, vast audiences often generate little financial security.

Networks that were once little more than pipes are waking up as they prepare for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) token economy. The mobile phone in your pocket is about to get a lot smarter. That is only partly because AI apps will become the new default for search, travel and shopping. However, something bigger is coming. The network itself is waking up.

While Bafana Bafana lost the opening game against Mexico, Lenovo’s technology underpinning the event was a big winner. The opening match of the World Cup did not go South Africa's way. As always, we lived in hope. Then we resigned ourselves to the inevitable. However, the one thing that worked seamlessly and proved to be a winner for fans of both Mexico and Bafana Bafana was the technology underpinning the tournament.

The West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Centre became the epicentre of a small earthquake in January. It showcased automotive technology at CES 2026, the world’s largest consumer tech show. As a result, the space felt less like an exhibition and more like a high-stakes contest for industrial leadership.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often described as a triumph of machines over human limitations. However, one of the most revealing AI stories from Africa tells a different story. It highlights a victory achieved by people who refused to let their voices disappear from the digital future.

The surge of lower-cost, higher-tech Chinese car brands into South African showrooms has sparked what we can only call “doom and fume”. Doom about shrinking margins, and incensed fuming about uneven competition, has become an almost prevailing narrative among “traditional” manufacturers with a long-established presence in the country. This climate of doom and fume continues to dominate industry conversations.

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems now pass bar exams. They write code. They even mimic empathy. Yet few answer a simpler question: are they helping people live better lives? Put differently, what good is AI if it does not improve human wellbeing? That question now has a practical test. The Flourishing AI Benchmark (FAI) offers a new way to evaluate systems.

Fraud, waste and abuse in South Africa’s private healthcare sector drains the system’s ability to deliver quality care. The issue remains largely unspoken. It does not make headlines in the way political corruption does. However, it is arguably just as damaging. It undermines the affordability and sustainability of medical cover for millions of South Africans.