Smartphones set to become irrelevant in a 6G world

The launch of 6G will spur a further shift towards mixed reality devices and make smartphones irrelevant in the next fifteen years. According to GlobalData research, we are already seeing a shift towards mixed reality such as Meta’s Quest Pro virtual reality...

SA sales reps spend just 27% of their time selling

Sales organisations are optimising technology for peak efficiency, addressing customers’ increasing demands, and maximising rep productivity to drive success now. This is among the insights from Salesforce’s fifth edition of its State of the Sales report...

Industrial control systems to come under fire in 2023

Kaspersky’s ICS CERT researchers shared their predictions for the next years’ industrial control system-focused developments and risks that organisations should prepare for in 2023. These predictions include increased attack surface due to digitisation,...

Top young scientists awarded at Eskom Expo International Science Fair

The future looks bright for the ambitious young scientists who successfully exhibited their ground-breaking research projects at this year’s Eskom Expo International Science Fair (ISF), and walked away with a plethora of life-changing awards. The top senior...

Eradicating hunger in Africa is within reach

Eradicating hunger in Africa by 2030 is possible, according to global agriculture leaders. Meeting in Rome ahead of the African Food Summit (Dakar 2) to be hosted by President Macky Sall in Dakar, Senegal, from 25-27 January 2023, -resident of the African Development...
Gamma-ray burst could be key to finding neutron star collisions

Gamma-ray burst could be key to finding neutron star collisions

A highly unusual blast of high-energy light from a nearby galaxy has been linked by scientists to a neutron star merger. The event, detected in December 2021 by NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, was a gamma-ray burst...