Mar 22, 2016
The brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave – what astronomers call the “shock breakout” – has been captured for the first time in the optical wavelength or visible light by NASA’s planet-hunter, the Kepler space telescope. An international...
Mar 18, 2016
University students no longer think technology companies are great places to work, leaning to government, parastatals and consulting firms as the more attractive employers. Professionals, however, still rank Google and Microsoft as attractive, according to...
Mar 17, 2016
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover – There can be no doubt that we have become a data-driven society – but the way we do analytics today is arguably wrong, having already led to some major disasters and more on the horizon if we don’t learn...
Mar 16, 2016
Africa’s economy has seen modest growth in the wake of falling commodity prices, slowing revenues and volatile currencies. The moderation in growth impacts a range of industries and sectors, including retail and consumer products that must contend with rising...
Mar 15, 2016
The tropical Pacific Ocean isn’t flat like a pond. Instead, it regularly has a high side and a low side. Natural cycles such as El Niño and La Niña events cause this sea level seesaw to tip back and forth, with the ocean near Asia on one end and the ocean near...
Mar 14, 2016
The outlook for PC shipments continues to indicate eventual stabilisation as competition from other devices eases, upgrades to new models and Windows 10 boost demand, and economic conditions around the world stabilize or improve. However, the decline in PC volume...
