Back to normal after El Niño

Back to normal after El Niño

Not too hot, not too cold – instead, water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean should be just around normal for the rest of 2016, according to forecasts from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, or GMAO. With these neutral conditions, scientists...
Glimmer of hope for SA jobs

Glimmer of hope for SA jobs

South African employers report cautiously optimistic hiring intentions for the next three months, with the employment outlook standing at +9% overall. Of the 755 employers surveyed in the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey (MEOS) for the fourth quarter of 2016, 15%...
Curiosity snaps Mars vistas

Curiosity snaps Mars vistas

The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new colour images returned by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the “Murray Buttes” region of lower Mount Sharp. Curiosity took the images with its Mast...
NASA heads for Bennu asteroid

NASA heads for Bennu asteroid

An Atlas V rocket traced a blazing arc into the Florida sky yesterday evening (8 September) to send a small robotic explorer on its way to an asteroid on a mission that scientists anticipate will reveal answers to some of the basic questions about the solar system....
R1m gift for Van Niekerk

R1m gift for Van Niekerk

T-Systems has presented Olympic gold medallist Wayde van Niekerk with a R1-million gift. “It’s our gesture of thanks, honouring Wayde for the way he’s inspired millions of South Africans to believe in their own dreams and chase after success,”...
LTE set to dominate M2M

LTE set to dominate M2M

Forecasts show that cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections (not including NB-IoT) will reach 733-million globally by 2021. Ovum’s latest report, “Cellular Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Forecasts: 2016-21” predicts that total cellular M2M service...