Blockchain for crypto-metal trading

Blockchain for crypto-metal trading

Blockchain is the enabling technology for what’s believed to be the world’s first crypto-metal exchange. MetalZoom.Energy is inviting South African miners to join it in disrupting the industry status quo. “Our crypto-metal exchange will provide a...
Africa: world’s dump for eWaste

Africa: world’s dump for eWaste

Africa is fast becoming the dumping ground for eWaste with a growing amount of computer equipment from western nations being found on toxic eWaste dumps throughout the continent, often being pulled apart by children as young as five. A computer monitor from a...
Top trends coming in 2018

Top trends coming in 2018

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more pervasive — and it is starting to enable intelligent apps and things. This is among the trends that we can look forward to in 2018, according to Gartner’s...
How to survive the digital trough

How to survive the digital trough

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — Digital dexterity, based on network effect technologies running on a digital platform will help organisations make it through the looming trough of depression facing digital transformation. Executives are frustrated...
Drones light up LA sky

Drones light up LA sky

Intel’s Shooting Star drones lit up the sky over Los Angeles at Friday’s release of the Wonder Woman movie to home entertainment. “When Warner Brothers and Ultra Productions approached us to take their promotion of the Wonder Woman home entertainment...
Quantum leap for chemistry

Quantum leap for chemistry

IBM scientists have developed a new approach to simulate molecules on a quantum computer that may one day help revolutionise chemistry and materials science. The scientists successfully used a seven-qubit quantum processor to address the molecular structure problem...