Wits researchers take structured light on a quantum leap

Wits researchers take structured light on a quantum leap

Quantum mechanics is embracing patterns of light to create an alphabet that can be leveraged to build a light-based quantum network. Structured light is a fancy way to describe patterns or pictures of light, but deservedly so as it promises future communications that...
DX to grow to $7,4trn by 2023

DX to grow to $7,4trn by 2023

By 2023, digital transformation (DX) spending will grow to more than 50% of all ICT investment from 36% today to approach $7,4-trillion, says IDC, which has also revealed its 2020 worldwide DX predictions. In unveiling its IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Digital...
Defense industry set to grow cybersecurity spend

Defense industry set to grow cybersecurity spend

Global defense industries are transforming their operations and capabilities through significant investments in disruptive technologies and platforms that are driving changes in military cybersecurity requirements. Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Global...
Get onboard with digital supremacy or become digital dependent

Get onboard with digital supremacy or become digital dependent

As the current decade comes to an end, the digital economy is approaching a critical tipping point. By 2023, IDC predicts that the global economy will finally reach “digital supremacy” with more than half of all GDP worldwide driven by products and...
Halloween posters that are out of this world …

Halloween posters that are out of this world …

Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released two new posters celebrating some truly terrifying exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. Free to download, the entertaining posters recall vintage horror movie advertisements but have a decidedly astronomical...
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...