Tess witnesses a star being destroyed

Tess witnesses a star being destroyed

For the first time, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Tess) watched a black hole tear apart a star in a cataclysmic phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Follow-up observations by NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and...

Device shipments sets for 2019 decline

Worldwide shipments of devices – PCs, tablets and mobile phones – will decline 3,7%, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. Gartner estimates there are more than 5-billion mobile phones used around the world. After years of growth, the worldwide...

What are the new African risks?

Elections in African markets can often fuel tensions and raise investment concerns. However, it also demonstrates how elections increasingly serve to stabilise Africa’s evolving political landscape. This is one of the findings from the fourth edition of the...

SA bosses still don’t buy into flexible working

Even though 93% of South African IT decision-makers agree that technology increases employee productivity, almost 80% still believe that their employees are more productive in a central office environment as compared to working remotely. This is according to a new...

10,9% growth for converged systems

Worldwide converged systems market revenue increased 10,9% year over year to $3,9-billion during the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker. “The value proposition of...

Social software, collaboration revenue set to double

The worldwide market for social software and collaboration in the workplace is expected to grow from an estimated $2,7-billion in 2018 to $4,8-billion by 2023, nearly doubling in size, according to Gartner. “The collaboration market is the most fragmented and...