Jul 25, 2016
The Weather Company will leverage one of the largest Internet of Things (IoT) platforms in the world to provide critical weather data to millions of people in currently underserved areas. With severe weather statistically occurring more frequently, governments and...
Jul 22, 2016
Facebook’s Connectivity Lab has made its first full-scale test flight of Aquila, an unmanned solar-powered airplane that can be used to bring affordable Internet to hundreds of millions of people in the hardest-to-reach places. Internet access can offer...
Jul 21, 2016
Two key climate change indicators — global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent — have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of the first six...
Jul 20, 2016
Huawei has invested R72-million ($5-million) in its first Innovation and Experience Centre in Africa, bringing the number of such facilities worldwide to seven. Li Peng, president of Huawei East and Southern Africa region, says this is the beginning of more investment...
Jul 19, 2016
South Africa still has a massive skills shortage in ICT, with a concerted effort from industry and academia required to help the country build the capacity needed to develop a digital economy. These are the headline findings from the latest Johannesburg Centre for...
Jul 18, 2016
Intel and Airbus demonstrated an aircraft visual inspection with a modified AscTec Falcon 8 with Intel RealSense cameras. The demo took place during the Farnborough International Airshow in England on an Airbus passenger airliner. “This collaboration and demo...
