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...
Jul 13, 2016
A recent Gartner survey found that 41% of surveyed IT professionals believe their IT organisation to be ready for the digital business of the next two years. Twenty nine per cent of those surveyed said that engagement with the demands of digital business would be...
Jul 12, 2016
The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionisation Array (HERA) was granted the status of SKA precursor telescope by SKA Organisation, joining the three other SKA precursor telescopes located on the SKA sites in Australia and South Africa. “We’re very pleased to grant...
