Feb 4, 2021
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded the Intel Embree ray tracing library, a component of the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit, a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award. The Academy, which hosts the annual Academy Awards, recognizes Intel...
Feb 3, 2021
A top challenge for CEOs over the next few years will be in managing an “anywhere” workforce, according to a new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study. CEOs of outperforming organisations – those who were in the top 20% for revenue growth of...
Feb 2, 2021
Vendor-neutral data centre provider Teraco Data Environments has finalised a new R2,5-billion loan financing transaction, following its November 2020 announcement that it will build a new 38-megawatt hyperscale data centre in Ekurhuleni. Teraco will use the funds...
Feb 1, 2021
The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa is viewed with more than a little scepticism in many quarters. Potentially corrupt Covid-19 spending has already cost the country billions of rand according to law enforcement agencies. The erosion of trust has meant...
Jan 29, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a useful tool when employed ethically, but in the hands of careless or unscrupulous operators it could cause a tremendous amount of harm. The Global AI Action Alliance (GAIA), a new flagship initiative to accelerate the adoption of...
Jan 27, 2021
Kathy Gibson reports – SAP has launched a new offering designed to help customers transform into intelligent businesses – Rise with SAP business transformation as a service. Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, points out that companies around the world have recognised...
