Future workforce changing rapidly
Work really is no longer the place that people go to, but rather the function they perform. And, in the modern workplace, the boundaries between office, home and play are blurring more than ever.
Corruption cloud hangs over SA
South Africa ranked number 67 out of 174 countries on the latest Corruption Perception Index from Transparency International. The country’s score of 44 puts South Africa on the wrong side of a scale that scores 100 for “very clean” and 0 for “highly corrupt”.
Nanodiamonds read quantum data
Quantum computing could soon become a mainstream reality, with the news that nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamonds could be used to construct vital components for quantum computers. Before now it has been impossible to read optically-written information from quantum computers electronically. Now, using a graphene layer, a team of scientists headed by Professor Alexander Holleitner of the Technische Universität München (TUM) has implemented a read unit that seems to work.
Doodle imagines poaching-free SA
A Grade 8 learner has won the South African Doodle for Google competition with a nature-themed doodle envisioning a country free from poaching. The competition invited school children across the country to create a Google Doodle depicting the “South Africa of Their Dreams”.
Cyber-attacks: not if but when
The cost of phishing attacks in South Africa amounted to about $320-million in 2013 alone – and it’s no longer a case of “if” your company is going to be a target, but rather “when”. This is according to Drew van Vuuren, consulting services partner at 4Di...
Orlando Pirates kids score
School kids attending the Orlando Pirates Learning Centre, supported by Acer for Education, have seen significant improvements in their marks for the critical subjects of maths and English. The centre has already touched the lives of more than 1 500 children between Grade 6 and Grade 12. Testing before and after attending the centre shows that primary school children increased their English marks from an average of 55,67% to an average of 75,79%; with their maths marks improving from 41,33% to 64,79%.