Oct 26, 2018
Most CEOs recognise that AI will be critical to their business, but few enterprises have actually undertaken AI initiatives. A recent Gartner CIO survey found only 4% of respondents had deployed AI in their organisations. In 2018, cars are commonplace, but it took 250...
Oct 25, 2018
The world’s first bio-brick grown from human urine signals an innovative paradigm shift in waste recovery. The brick is the brainchild of University of Cape Town (UCT) master’s student in civil engineering Suzanne Lambert. Dr Dyllon Randall,...
Oct 24, 2018
Kathy Gibson is at IDC Cloud and Data Centre Roadshow in Sandton – CIOs are facing new issues and challenges as cloud computing becomes more pervasive, and frequently comes into conflict with data centre operations. One of the main drivers for cloud is the...
Oct 23, 2018
Over the southeast Atlantic Ocean, a 2 000-mile-long plume of smoke from African agricultural fires meets a near-permanent cloud bank offshore. Their meeting makes a natural laboratory for studying the interactions between cloud droplets and the tiny airborne smoke...
Oct 22, 2018
The estimated $150-billion forced-labour industry is one of the most pressing social issues of our time, with potentially millions of people around the world being subject to multiple forms of illegal exploitation. IBM, Stop the Traffik (STT), Western Union, Barclays,...
Oct 19, 2018
Digital business is maturing, from tentative experiment to application at massive scale – and CIOs must evolve their thinking to be in tune with this new era of rapid increases in the scale of digital business. Gartner’s annual global survey of CIOs showed...