Mar 28, 2014
NASA has released an image of a comet that, on 19 October, will pass within 84 000 miles of Mars – less than half the distance between Earth and our moon. The image on the left, captured on 11 March by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows comet C/2013 A1,...
Mar 27, 2014
The May 2014 commercial launch of dotAfrica is now a fait accompli after the final outstanding paperwork was inked at the 49th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) in Singapore yesterday. The Registry Agreement was signed at the...
Mar 26, 2014
President Jacob Zuma has authorised the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate allegations in respect of the affairs of the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA). The SIU will, among others, investigate the following allegations: *...
Mar 25, 2014
South African businesses face unprecedented levels of cyber-attacks, as global security vulnerabilities and threats against systems, applications and personal networks have reached their highest-ever recorded level. According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report,...
Mar 24, 2014
The New York Genome Center (NYGC) and IBM have announced an initiative to accelerate a new era of genomic medicine with the use of IBM’s Watson cognitive system. IBM and NYGC will test a Watson prototype designed specifically for genomic research as a tool to help...
Mar 20, 2014
NASA and space agencies around the world are preparing for the third annual International Space Apps Challenge on 12 and 13 April. Participants will develop mobile applications, software, hardware, data visualisation and platform solutions that could contribute to...
