Digital chemistry breakthrough turns words into molecules

Digital chemistry breakthrough turns words into molecules

A new system capable of automatically turning words into molecules on demand could open up the digitisation of chemistry. Researchers from the University of Glasgow’s School of Chemistry, who developed the system, claim it will lead to the creation of a...

Cloud strategies to fuel innovation across Africa

Organisations across sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly leveraging multiple cloud deployments to achieve digital transformation. The shift is one of the key findings in World Wide Worx’s new Cloud in Africa 2020 report, which surveyed technology decision-makers...

AI, IoT set to change customer experience

Accelerated by Covid-19, emerging digital technologies, especially AI and IoT, are fundamentally changing the consumer journey in the consumer product market. A new report from Lux Research, “The Digital Transformation of the Consumer Journey”, outlines...

Nzimande unpacks SA’s plan to reach Covid-19 population immunity

With limited vaccine manufacturing capacity around the world, South Africa will have to prioritise its own requirements in the interest of securing access to a vaccine as a matter of national security. This is according to Minister of Higher Education, Science and...

AI tipped to drive post-Covid growth

A Gartner poll of business and IT professionals reveals that 24% of respondents’ organisations increased their artificial intelligence (AI) investments and 42% kept them unchanged since the onset of Covid-19. Growth – namely customer experience and...

Server shipments to EMEA show Q2 decline

International Data Corporation’s (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker shows that in 2Q20 the EMEA server market reported a year-on-year (YoY) decrease in vendor revenues of 5,8% to $3,9-billion and a YoY decrease of 6,9% in units shipped to around 470 000. When viewing the...