Election uncertainty stymies GDP growth in Africa

Most African countries have a positive economic outlook, apart from those with upcoming elections, according to ICAEW’s (the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) latest report. In Economic Insight: Africa Q4 2018, the accountancy body...

Massive growth for enterprise storage

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, vendor revenue in the worldwide enterprise storage systems market increased 19,4% year over year to $14-billion during the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18). Total...

SA students take on global supercomputing challenge

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...

UCT team in immune system breakthrough

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...
NASA’s InSight takes its first selfie

NASA’s InSight takes its first selfie

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...

Unlocking 5G could contribute $565bn to global GDP

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...