Intel FPGAs power Alibaba Cloud

Intel’s field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are now powering the acceleration-as-a-service of Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group. The acceleration service, which can be launched from the Alibaba Cloud website, enables customers to develop...

Dell pumps $1bn into IoT division

Dell Technologies will invest $1-billion in a new Internet of Things (IoT) vision and strategy, an IoT division and IoT specific products, labs, partner programme and consumption models. As more and more customers look to digitally transform their business, a new...

Influencers get own cryptocurrency

indaHash.com, the global technology platform that connects more than 300 000 digital influencers with a combined reach of 1-billion followers to brands around the world, has launched its initial coin offering (ICO). The ICO pre-distribution will begin on 8 November...

Summit calls for more youth involvement

The 4th Africa-Europe Youth Summit highlighted the key role played by young people on both continents as key actors within the Africa-EU Partnership. At the summit, held this week in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, delegates representing African, European and diaspora...

Cape Town has Africa’s leading airport

Cape Town International Airport clinched the award for Africa’s leading airport at the 2017 World Travel Awards Africa. The World Travel Awards celebrates its 24th anniversary this year. Travel and tourism professionals and business and travel consumers...
How El Nino raised CO2

How El Nino raised CO2

A new NASA study provides space-based evidence that Earth’s tropical regions were the cause of the largest annual increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration seen in at least 2 000 years. Scientists suspected the 2015-16 El Nino – one of the...