Dec 13, 2018
Alongside the annual Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) conference, which took place in Cape Town from 2 to 6 December 2018, the Student Cluster Competition and the Student Cyber-Security Challenge provided a platform for South African students to showcase...
Dec 13, 2018
The way the immune system remembers prior exposures to, for example, pathogens (micro-organisms like bacteria, causing infection), to trigger the right response to reinfection has been detailed for the first time. The study was published in Nature Genetics on 10...
Dec 12, 2018
NASA’s InSight lander isn’t camera-shy. The spacecraft has used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie — a mosaic made up of 11 images. This is the same imaging process used by NASA’s Curiosity rover mission, in which many...
Dec 12, 2018
Unlocking spectrum for the mobile industry to deliver innovative 5G services across different industry sectors could add $565-billion to global GDP and $152-billion in tax revenue from 2020 to 2034, according to a new report by the GSMA. Next-generation 5G services...
Dec 12, 2018
More and more people have access to and are using the Internet. However, stronger ICT skills are needed to connect people everywhere, At the same time, ICT prices have dropped globally in the last decade. Improved ICT regulation and policy-making have played a pivotal...
Dec 12, 2018
The South African economy grew slightly in November, according to the BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index (BETI) which showed growth over the three measurement periods – most likely the result of retail sales over the Black Friday and Cyber Monday period....
