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Jetour Owner’s Club launches in SA – Gadget

6 days ago | gadget.co.za | Jason Bannier

Chinese carmaker Jetour had launched an Owner’s Club in South Africa. Its target: a community for like-minded individuals who value craftsmanship, performance, and the distinct experience of owning a Jetour, according to the Chinese carmaker. The Club was announced during Jetour Festival, the company’s first customer day in SA, held at Casalinga in Johannesburg last weekend.
Gadget of the Week: The fitness watch that gets out of the way – Gadget

1 week ago | gadget.co.za | Arthur Goldstuck

Smartwatches were supposed to liberate us from phones. Instead, they often added complexity to something as simple as checking the time or counting steps. So when Huawei introduced the Fit 4 Pro in Berlin earlier this month, it didn’t come draped in the usual “game-changer” clichés. That may be its biggest strength. What is it? At first glance, it looks like Huawei took a scalpel to its past watch designs. The Fit 4 Pro is wonderfully slim at 9.3mm.
Parket paves way for smarter cities – Gadget

1 week ago | gadget.co.za | Jason Bannier

Parket, a parking payment app, is evolving into a digital infrastructure provider at the heart of urban innovation. By combining physical expansion with real-time data systems, the startup is positioning itself as a key enabler of smart cities. “Because we’re a turnkey digital system, Parket falls into the Internet of Things category,” Parket founder and CTO Joshua Raphael told Gadget. “We know the exact occupancy, the total amount of bays, and the volumes.
'Phoenician Scheme' weaves style and espionage – Gadget

1 week ago | gadget.co.za | Jason Bannier

With awry sense of humour, The Phoenician Scheme deliversa captivating narrative driven by meticulously staged scenes and rich sound design. These elements are all unmistakably shaped by the signature style of award-winning director Wes Anderson. The black comedy is co-written with Roman Coppola. The movie is releasing in Ster-Kinekor cinemas, select Nu Metro theatres, and The Bioscope today (30 May 2025). It premiered in the main competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2025.
NASA, Wisk, push autonomous air taxis – Gadget

1 week ago | gadget.co.za | Arthur Goldstuck

Advanced air mobility (AAM) company Wisk Aero is entering a five-year non-reimbursable space act agreement with NASA. This focuses on critical research led by NASA’s air traffic management exploration project aimed at advancing autonomous aircraft under instrument flight rules in the National Airspace System (NAS). Wisk was the first AAM company to develop an electric self-flying air taxi in the US. Its focus is on autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Google I/O: Android XR glasses finally see the point – Gadget

1 week ago | gadget.co.za | Arthur Goldstuck

Once upon a time, Google tried to change the world. It launched Google Glass, which was in effect a computer and a video camera in one’s spectacles. As expected, the specs were ugly, the computer ineffectual, and the camera an invitation to have your face smashed in. I wrote back in 2013 that it “makes the user look like a 20th century watchmaker, and turns anyone in the vicinity of the user into a privacy-obsessed paranoiac.” That line aged far better than the product.
AI accelerates toward human intelligence – Gadget

1 week ago | gadget.co.za | Jason Bannier

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – when machines can understand and learn any intellectual task that a human being can – may arrive sooner than predicted. Some experts are now forecasting human-level AI within 18 months. With the accelerating pace of AI development, experts are considering its far-reaching implications.
Google I/O: Android Auto engages higher gear – Gadget

1 week ago | gadget.co.za | Arthur Goldstuck

A Volvo stood outside the keynote, engine off, systems on, and ready to talk. There was no label on the windscreen. No velvet rope. Just a production car running the Gemini AI model on Google built-in, parked between the developer queues and the Shoreline Amphitheatre stage. It didn’t introduce itself. It waited for instructions. That was the quiet announcement before the announcements at the Google I/O develop[er conference in Mountain View, California, last week.
Google I/O: Search, as we know it, is over – Gadget

1 week ago | gadget.co.za | Arthur Goldstuck

Google has detonated the foundation of the internet. Search, the product that defined the company and shaped how the web is navigated, is being re-engineered from the ground up. The blue links that funnel over half a trillion dollars in digital advertising are being pushed aside in favour of something more ambitious: an AI system that interprets, reasons, and acts. The announcement came at Google I/O 2025, the company’s annual developer conference in San Francisco.
AI skills essential, say 99% in SAP survey – Gadget

1 week ago | gadget.co.za | Jason Bannier

As generative AI adoption accelerates and the pursuit of artificial general intelligence gains momentum, key African markets are facing a widening AI skills gap despite universal recognition of their importance. New research reveals that 61% of mid-size and enterprise-level companies in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa consider AI skills to be ‘extremely important’, while another 38% regard them as ‘very important’.