HASANAIN ABDULLAH The first Ummah Tech Conference, under the theme ‘Where Faith Meets Technology’, brought together technology professionals, community leaders and entrepreneurs in an effort to create a sustainable framework within an Islamic environment. Participants from across the country, including Cape Town, Durban, Gqeberha and Johannesburg engaged...

On November 25, Google and the Association of Independent Publishers (AIP) announced a landmark partnership, the establishment of the Digital News Transformation Fund (DNT Fund). This is a $6 million (R114 million) initiative aimed at revitalising South Africa’s struggling independent and local news sectors. MAHMOOD SANGLAY offers...

The benefits of 4IR (Fourth Industrial Revolution) are not distributed equally. HASANAIN ABDULLAH argues that the economic disparity affects the nation’s poor and ill-equipped to exploit opportunities in the digital age. As I reflect on my role in managing downstream projects for the National Awqaf Foundation of...

Dr Waleed Kadous is a Muslim artificial intelligence engineer based in California, USA. He is a leading expert on Islam and AI and currently works for the graphic design platform Canva. His career includes work at tech companies like Anyscale, Uber and Google. MAHMOOD SANGLAY reports on...

‘For a long time I did not understand why I never saw people who looked like my dad in the NASA archives from the Apollo period,’ says Dr Sian Proctor. Dr Sian ‘Leo’ Proctor, mission pilot for the first all-civilian orbital mission, SpaceX Inspiration4, and the first...

Professional astronomers from 22 other African countries will meet in Cape Town to present their groundbreaking work in astronomy research, communication, education and development. ASTRONOMY research being conducted in Africa will feature prominently at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly 2024 to be held in Cape...

by SAMEER PARKER SAMSUNG has recently come under fire for being discovered using artificial intelligence to enhance images of the moon. It turned out that their phones were not improving their images at all, but rather completely faking them. When you point your phone’s camera at the moon and...

It is interesting that the Quran mentions iron as an example, and not any of the other elements, to illustrate a deep truth about the universe, writes DR YUSUF NOOR. STARS, like everything else, are born, live and die. They are formed when a cloud of hydrogen...

For centuries, space was considered to be a cold vacuum of emptiness, a fixed permanent entity in which the cosmic drama is playing itself out, writes DR YUSUF NOOR. THE universe is largely empty space; planets, stars and galaxies occupy relatively small regions of space. Our planet...

In the first of a series of articles on creation, DR YUSUF NOOR provided a glimpse into how the scientific community viewed how the universe came into being. He now looks at how the Quran describes the layout of the solar system. He emphasises that the amazing...