Nov 24, 2023
Retailers are expecting an increase, to the tune of around R7-billion, in consumer spending on Black Friday 2023 compared to last year, according to data from the Bureau of Market Research (BMR). With 15% of sales being online last year, a significant proportion of...
Nov 23, 2023
Kathy Gibson reports from Zagreb, Croatia – As technology becomes more pervasive in people’s lives, the amount of data being created is growing apace. This means this data needs to be secured, made available and preserved, says Karsten Winther, president,...
Nov 22, 2023
Kathy Gibson reports from Zagreb, Croatia – The data centre today is becoming an artificial intelligence (AI) factory, and this means organisations have to find new ways to quickly build capacity. This is the word from Vladimir Galabov, research director: cloud...
Nov 21, 2023
Last week (16 November 2023) marked the one-year anniversary of the successful launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission to the moon – the first in a series of missions that will ultimately see the space agency return humans to the moon. Preparations for Artemis...
Nov 20, 2023
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 16-million kilometers away – about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth – to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in...
Nov 17, 2023
South African retailers are expected to adopt diversification strategies such as adding new product lines and new service offerings to win a bigger share of an expected R60,4-billion in retail spending over November and December. This Black Friday and festive season...
