Study pinpoints birthplace of modern humans in southern Africa

Study pinpoints birthplace of modern humans in southern Africa

A new study has concluded that the earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African homeland and thrived there for 70 000 years. The breakthrough findings are published in the journal Nature, with the authors...
AI set to guide autonomous ship across the Atlantic

AI set to guide autonomous ship across the Atlantic

IBM has joined a global consortium of partners, led by marine research organisation ProMare, that is building an unmanned, fully-autonomous ship that will cross the Atlantic on the fourth centenary of the original Mayflower voyage in September 2020. The Mayflower...
Business demands more responsive networking solutions

Business demands more responsive networking solutions

New technologies are set to fundamentally change the way networks are designed and used, and IT has to align more closely to business needs. These are among the findings of a Cisco survey asking more than 2 000 IT leaders and network strategists how they plan to...
Companies fail to grasp all the cyber opportunities

Companies fail to grasp all the cyber opportunities

The fourth industrial revolution is driving change and digitalisation at an exciting pace. New markets are being created and with every innovation the world becomes more and more digitally connected. Cyber is growing and moving in multiple dimensions across multiple...
Fit businesses prioritise IT and reap better results

Fit businesses prioritise IT and reap better results

The march to digitalization is so commonplace today that 40% of global CIOs have reached scale for their digital endeavors, more than doubling the proportion of enterprises from 2018, according to Gartner’s annual global survey of CIOs. The next challenge CIOs...
Enterprises under pressure to achieve value from analytics

Enterprises under pressure to achieve value from analytics

Organisations are under pressure to achieve a faster time-to-value for implementing analytics projects, and this is driving migration to the cloud. This is among the findings of an IDG Research MarketPulse survey, “Optimising Business Analytics by Transforming...