Pilot programme aims to plug tech skills gap

A pilot skills development programme aims to create 1-million new jobs by 2030. The pilot was announced by the co-ordinator of government’s Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) programme Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, minister of communications and digital technologies,...
Surveillance to dominate 5G IoT

Surveillance to dominate 5G IoT

Outdoor surveillance cameras will be the largest market for 5G Internet of Things (IoT) solutions worldwide over the next three years, according to Gartner. These cameras will represent 70% of the 5G IoT endpoint installed base in 2020, before contracting to 32% by...
Using AI to prevent bridges and tunnels collapsing

Using AI to prevent bridges and tunnels collapsing

The New York and Tel Aviv-based startup, Dynamic Infrastructure, is implementing the world’s first deep-learning solution which allows bridge and tunnel owners and operators to obtain visual diagnosis of the assets they manage. The system provides live,...
Milky Way raids intergalactic ‘bank accounts’

Milky Way raids intergalactic ‘bank accounts’

Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow gas out of the galactic disk, but that gas falls back onto the galaxy to form new generations of stars. In an ambitious effort to conduct a full accounting of this recycling process,...
Facial recognition learns to recognise emotions

Facial recognition learns to recognise emotions

New AI facial expression recognition technology detects subtle changes in facial expression with a high degree of accuracy, giving machines the ability to correctly judge humans’ emotions. The new technology was developed by Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu...
Study reveals unexpected impact of tech on our lives

Study reveals unexpected impact of tech on our lives

Technology contributes to making our lives easier, but could also make us more understanding, tolerant, charitable and open-minded. This is among the findings from global research undertaken by Lenovo, that polled more than 15 000 people from the US, Mexico, Brazil,...