Aug 20, 2019
Rand Merchant Investment Holding (RMI), through AlphaCode, has awarded entrepreneurial packages valued at R16-million to eight of South Africa’s most promising financial services startups. All businesses are less than two years old and at least 51% owned by...
Aug 20, 2019
A team of scientists from the University of Johannesburg (UJ), collaborating across theoretical and experimental physics and computer science, have developed and trained a new machine learning (ML) technique to predict and diagnose diseases such as lung cancer,...
Aug 20, 2019
The use of technology is crucial for financial services organisations with ambitions of prevailing in a highly contested market. This is the word from Barry Vorster, lead: HR technology and culture at PwC, who points out that sustainable productivity improvement in...
Aug 20, 2019
Kaspersky researchers detected 16,017 new ransomware modifications in the second quarter of 2019 – including ones belonging to eight new malware families. This is more than double the number of new samples detected a year ago, in Q2 2018 (7 620). The Kaspersky...
Aug 20, 2019
Location technology from what3words has been rolled out to emergency medical care provider ER24, enabling faster response times in case of an incident. Using a what3words address in an emergency gives callers a simple way to describe precisely where they need help,...
Aug 20, 2019
Jaguar Land Rover is developing next-generation head-up display technology that could beam realtime safety information in front of the driver, while allowing passengers to stream 3D movies direct from their seats. Engineers are working on a powerful new 3D head-up...
