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,...

Nokia, Tencent to accelerate 5G webscale research

Nokia and Tencent have signed an agreement to carry out joint research and development work to explore the potential of 5G for the provision of new applications, including those for a variety of vertical markets. Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed at...

What to look out for at Wikimania

The programme for Wikimania – the annual gathering of volunteers from around the world to celebrate Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, taking place this year in Cape Town – features more than 80 community-submitted talks, 32 poster discussions, and four...