Feb 14, 2019
Mark Davison is at IBM Think in San Francisco – One of the most popular sessions at IBM’s Think conferences is the annual 5 in 5 predictions at its Science Slam – and this year’s event proved to be no exception. The brainchild of senior...
Feb 13, 2019
Mark Davison is at IBM Think in San Francisco – There was standing room only in Moscone West conference centre for IBM chairman, president and CEO, Ginni Rometty’s keynote address – and at multiple other venues around San Francisco, including the Metreon cinema...
Feb 12, 2019
Mark Davison is at IBM PartnerWorld in San Francisco – IBM’s AI platform Watson made history today when it took on a champion human debater in the first public debate of its kind on the statement: “We should subsidise pre-school.” In the...
Feb 11, 2019
People around the world generally agree that climate change poses a severe risk to their countries, but terrorism, specifically from the Islamic extremist group known as ISIS, and cyber-attacks are also seen by many as major security threats, according to a new Pew...
Feb 8, 2019
South Africa needs to embrace and harness technology now, or risk being left behind. This was the sentiment expressed last night by President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his State of the Nation Address to a the joint sitting of Parliament and the National Council of...
Feb 7, 2019
Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Global temperatures in 2018 were 0,83 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1951...
