Evolving usage and tight budgets hinder thin clients

Faced with an ongoing transition towards alternative devices and challenged budgets, global shipments of thin client devices declined 24% YoY in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker. Full year...

Dogecoin doesn’t dodge the crypto bullet

Despite being criticised as risky and speculative investments – and often created as a joke – meme coins continue gaining traction fuelled by their growing online communities. Having said that, though, the original meme coin – Dogecoin – is...

New pledge to eradicate polio in Africa

In a bid to foster a healthy population, African leaders have come together to reiterate the need to actively direct resources and efforts to curb the spread of polio on the continent after their previous success was hampered by the Covid-19 outbreak. The African...

Africa comes under cyber attack

Kathy Gibson reports – Africa is experiencing three-times more than the global average when it comes to cyberattacks. “It is when rather than if organisations will be attacked,” says Pankaj Bhula, regional director: Africa at Check Point. Over the...
A future aircraft design, supercomputed

A future aircraft design, supercomputed

The picture featured here is not hypermodern art. Generated by NASA’s high-performance computers, it shows a Transonic Truss Braced Wing (TTBW) aircraft concept being tested in a virtual wind tunnel, showing how its wings interact with the air around them. In...

Learnership scams add to youth unemployment woes

Learnerships are South Africa’s most powerful skills development mechanism, but they could be playing an even greater role in eradicating youth unemployment if it were not for some dishonest learners defrauding the system by enrolling for multiple learnerships...