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...
Jul 15, 2016
The first solar-powered microgrids have been launched in the northern KwaZulu-Natal district of uMkhanyakude, South Africa, as part of the Connectivity, Electricity and Education for Entrepreneurship (CE3) programme in partnership with Accenture, the University of...
Jul 14, 2016
The JunoCam camera aboard NASA’s Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft’s 4 July arrival at Jupiter. Juno’s visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit...
