Now anyone can print a gun …

Now anyone can print a gun …

From tomorrow (1 August), anyone with an Internet connection will be able to download the blueprints to create their own, working, 3D-printed gun. Defence Distributed will relaunch its DefCAD project, and publishing instructions that will allow anyone with access to a...
The curious case of the sun’s hot corona

The curious case of the sun’s hot corona

Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere gets much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the Sun’s blazing surface. Temperatures in the corona — the tenuous, outermost layer of the solar atmosphere —...
Is that a lake of water on Mars?

Is that a lake of water on Mars?

Liquid water may be sitting under a layer of ice at Mars’ south pole, according to a new paper published in Science this week. The finding is based on data from the European Mars Express spacecraft, obtained by a radar instrument called MARSIS (Mars Advanced...
The data centre of the future

The data centre of the future

Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Adopting a modern data centre is less about technology, and more about a new way of thinking. This is the message from Ossama El Samadoni, regional director: modern data centre at Dell EMC, who points out...
Find the real value in digital transformation

Find the real value in digital transformation

Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Digital transformation is no longer a nice-to-have: organisations that have not at least begun their digitalisation journey run a very real risk of becoming irrelevant. This is the word from Dell EMC...
SA household savings in crisis

SA household savings in crisis

South African’s household savings rate comes last when ranked against the G20 countries, according to analysis from savings fintech MyTreasury.co.za, signalling that too many South Africans are living in debt or eating into their capital. These finding are...