AI, drones and cameras work to keep roads and bridges safe

AI, drones and cameras work to keep roads and bridges safe

Europe’s roads are the safest in the world. Current figures show that there are 50 fatalities per 1-million inhabitants, compared to the global figure of 174 deaths per million. Despite this, each loss remains a tragedy. In 2017, 25 300 people lost their lives...
Dragonfly will fly around Titan looking for signs of life

Dragonfly will fly around Titan looking for signs of life

NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing the search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon....
The time to make the digitalisation journey is now

The time to make the digitalisation journey is now

Kathy Gibson is at Dell Technologies Forum in Sandton – Technology is changing the world – and organisations need to make the digital transformation journey that embraces IT, workplace, security and application transformation. This is the word from...
AI uproots general-purpose computing architectures

AI uproots general-purpose computing architectures

There isn’t enough computing capability today to process the amount of data being created and stored. A new study from International Data Corporation (IDC) finds that the processing and transformation required to convert the data into useful and valuable...
Earwear and watches to drive wearables growth

Earwear and watches to drive wearables growth

The market for wearable devices is on track to reach global shipments of 222,9-million units in 2019, growing to 302,3-million units in 2023 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7,9%. According to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC)...

Digitalisation key as Africa bucks world growth trends

Africa’s output grew by 3,4% between 2017 and 2018 despite the slowdown in global growth during that period, a new report by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has shown. The African Trade Report 2019: African Trade in a Digital World, launched in...