Oct 8, 2019
Robots could be taught to recognise human emotions from our movements, a new study shows. Researchers found humans could recognise excitement, sadness, aggression, and boredom from the way people moved, even if they could not see their facial expressions or hear their...
Oct 8, 2019
Last year, the world reached a major modern milestone with half of the world’s population being online with some form of Internet connection. The bad news is that, despite this progress, this status quo still puts billions of people on the wrong side of the...
Oct 8, 2019
Learners from three provinces have taken the top places in the 2019 South African Programming Olympiad which is now in its 36th year. The gold medal winner was Andi Qu, a grade 11 learner at St John’s College, Johannesburg, who won the Standard Bank Trophy. This...
Oct 7, 2019
IT spending in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) is set to reach $83,7-billion in 2020, up 2,8% year on year, according to the latest forecast from IDC. Enterprises will account for close to 56,8% of that figure, with the telecommunications, finance, government, and...
Oct 7, 2019
The latest research from Gartner reveals the five major trends that are shaping the evolution of analytics and business intelligence (BI). “As intelligence is at the core of all digital businesses, IT and business leaders continue to make analytics and BI their...
Oct 7, 2019
The Democratic Alliance has said that it is “unacceptable” that the Department of e-Government incurred irregular expenditure of R31,9-million for the 2018/2019 financial year. “According to the annual report for e-Government this irregular...
