Amazon fed up — could pull plug on new Cape Town headquarters: The developer of the complex which is set to house Amazon’s new headquarters in South Africa has warned any further construction delays could see the company pull the plug, costing billions of rand and thousands of jobs lost. – MyBroadband
Eskom is bleeding skills — but race elephant clouds debate: Racial divisions make Eskom’s skills shortage an elephant in its boardrooms, while Solidarity says BEE procurement requirements cause South Africa’s electricity prices to be 27% higher than they need to be. – MyBroadband
South African startup putting lab-grown wildebeest and impala meat on the menu: The global push to develop lab-grown meat is taking an exotic twist in South Africa, where slaughter-free cuts of springbok, wildebeest and impala could soon be on the menu. – MyBroadband
Google fires engineer that claimed it created sentient AI: Google has fired a software engineer who worked on the company’s artificial intelligence development team over his public contention that he had conversations with a bot that had become “sentient.” – MyBroadband
Smartphones you can buy for under R500 in South Africa: An extremely tight budget should not stop less affluent South Africans from staying connected with friends and family. Here are 10 smartphones you can buy for less than R500 in South Africa. – MyBroadband
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