First Boeing Starliner crewed flight en route to ISS

First Boeing Starliner crewed flight en route to ISS

Jun 6, 2024

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are safely in orbit on the first crewed flight test aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft bound for the International Space Station. As part of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the astronauts lifted off at 10h52 EDT on...
CEOs bet on GenAI despite workforce and culture issues

CEOs bet on GenAI despite workforce and culture issues

Jun 5, 2024

Banking and financial markets (BFM) CEOs are facing workforce and culture and challenges as they act quickly to implement and scale generative AI (GenAI) across their organisations. The findings are part of an annual global cross-industry study by the IBM Institute...
Massive growth on the cards for AI chip revenue

Massive growth on the cards for AI chip revenue

Jun 4, 2024

Revenue from AI semiconductors globally is expected to total $71-billion in 2024, an increase of 33% from 2023, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. “Today, generative AI (GenAI) is fueling demand for high-performance AI chips in data centres. In 2024,...
Webb finds most distant known galaxy

Webb finds most distant known galaxy

Jun 3, 2024

Over the last two years, scientists have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to explore what astronomers refer to as Cosmic Dawn – the period in the first few hundred million years after the big bang where the first galaxies were born. These...
Private sector urged to be ambitious and aggressive in Africa

Private sector urged to be ambitious and aggressive in Africa

May 31, 2024

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa 2024 Morocco – As the digital agenda takes off, countries across Africa are racing to provide the basic infrastructure needed to make it a reality. But years of state-owned telco monopolies and a shortage of funding mean...