Oct 6, 2020
Rand Merchant Investments (RMI) startup incubator AlphaCode has taken another step to find the next unicorn in financial services when it chose Oyi Medical Card and awarded it R450 000 at its first virtual demo day. Oyi is one of seven startups that were awarded...
Oct 6, 2020
Nvidia is building the UK’s most powerful supercomputer, which it will make available to UK healthcare researchers using AI to solve pressing medical challenges, including those presented by Covid-19. Expected to come online by year end, the...
Oct 6, 2020
NVidia has announced a partnership with global healthcare company GSK and its AI group, which is applying computation to the drug and vaccine discovery process. GSK has recently established a new London-based AI hub, one of the first of its kind, which will leverage...
Oct 5, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the move away from cash as customers increasingly demand low-touch or contactless payments. New research from Yoco, polling 4 386 small business owners from its customer base, investigated how many businesses had elected to go...
Oct 5, 2020
From a global pandemic to global warming, 2020 has illuminated the essential role of science — as well as clear actions based on that science — to combat some of the greatest challenges of our time. The need to rethink how the world creates, consumes and...
Oct 5, 2020
The wearable sensor industry will be worth $2,5-billion in 2020, having tripled in size since 2014. This comes despite the significant economic challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused a reduction in the total revenue this year. However, the...
