CEOs urged to exploit AI’s long-term potential

CEOs urged to exploit AI’s long-term potential

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...
UCT unveils world’s first bio-brick made using human urine

UCT unveils world’s first bio-brick made using human urine

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,...
In digital transformation, business and IT are in conflict

In digital transformation, business and IT are in conflict

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...
NASA studies African smoke cloud

NASA studies African smoke cloud

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...
AI helps to combat human trafficking

AI helps to combat human trafficking

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,...
CIOs confirm they’re in the third era of IT

CIOs confirm they’re in the third era of IT

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...