Telkom launches FreeMe Promo

Telkom has launched new FreeMe Promo All-Network Voice Bundles for FreeMe and FreeMe Family customers. The bundles can be used to call any mobile network within South Africa and can be purchased as once-off or recurring bundles. “These voice bundles further...

New fertilisers for sustainable farming

The global market demand for controlled- and slow-release specialty fertilisers is growing significantly and currently valued at $2,35-billion, as global populations continue to increase rapidly while the amount of arable land per-capita simultaneously declines. At...
Bid to bring Northern White Rhino back from extinction

Bid to bring Northern White Rhino back from extinction

Northern White Rhinos (NWR) are functionally extinct, with just two females of this species left on the planet. But now an international team of scientists has now successfully created hybrid embryos from Southern White Rhino (SWR) eggs and NWR sperm using assisted...

ICT skills among SA’s most in-demand

ICT jobs are among the critical and scarce skills that South Africa needs to fulfil its development objectives. The 2018 National List of Occupations in High Demand highlights the jobs showing strong employment growth or those experiencing, or about to experience,...

R1bn expansion for Teraco data centre

In its largest infrastructure build project to date, Teraco is to pump R1-billion in expanding the Teraco Isando Campus (JB1). The expansion will occur in two phases. Phase 1, currently underway, will grow the facility by 2 000 cabinets bringing the total JB1 campus...

IBM aims to reduce facial recognition bias

IBM is set to release world’s largest annotation dataset for studying bias in facial analysis. According to IBM fellows Aleksandra Mojsilovic and John Smith, society is paying more attention than ever to the question of bias in artificial intelligence systems,...