Dark matter and black holes

Dark matter and black holes

Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle. An intriguing alternative view is that dark matter is made of black holes formed during the first second of our...
Go digital or suffer losses

Go digital or suffer losses

While most businesses recognise the inherent benefits of “going digital”, most of them are hitting roadblocks that include lack of internal alignment, lack of adequate skills and plenty of cultural resistance. Coupled with technology constraints and an...
Stay skeptical of Blockchain

Stay skeptical of Blockchain

While Blockchain technology is certainly worth investigating, CIOs should not be fooled into thinking it is the panacea for all the potential use cases currently under discussion. In fact, Forrester principal analyst Martha Bennett is advising a healthy dose of...
#Hack.Jozi winners solve real issues

#Hack.Jozi winners solve real issues

The winners of the 2016 #Hack.Jozi Challenge, announced by the City of Joburg and Wits University last night, will scale their businesses to create jobs and help beat real issues they identified in healthcare, education and local government administration in the City...
PC opportunity amid the gloom

PC opportunity amid the gloom

The worldwide PC market registered one of its lowest quarterly growth rates in the first quarter 2016, but Gartner thinks that several profit opportunities exist for PC vendors. “PCs are no longer the first or only devices users are choosing for internet...
Breakthrough in storage tech

Breakthrough in storage tech

For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated reliably storing three bits of data per cell using a relatively new memory technology known as phase-change memory (PCM). The current memory landscape spans from DRAM to hard disk drives to flash. But in...