Aug 1, 2017
HP Inc and NVIDIA have teamed up with Autodesk, Fusion, Launch Forth, Technicolor, Unreal Engine and VIVE to launch HP Mars Home Planet – a global project to experience, through virtual reality, what a human population of 1-million could look like on Mars. From...
Aug 1, 2017
For the first time in history, more than 50% of the human population lives in cities. Many of these are large or even mega cities, with populations of anywhere between 5-million and 38-million people. Urban areas with such dense populations are extremely complex to...
Aug 1, 2017
While subscribers are turning to FTTH packages with line speeds that go all the way to gigabit speeds, many find that the throughput to end user devices – their smartphones, tablets, media players and smart TVs – are sub-optimal. The real culprit here is...
Aug 1, 2017
South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) has been declared as a National Research Facility under the National Research Foundation (NRF), while the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) has been withdrawn. The announcement was made by Minister...
Aug 1, 2017
The use of banks as a channel for issuing Smart ID cards and passports is proving successful. This is according to FNB, which says approximately 45% of all Smart IDs and passports issued by banks have been issued through its branches. Lee-Anne van Zyl, CEO of FNB...
Aug 1, 2017
The Second Meeting of BRICS Industry Ministers, held in the Peoples Republic of China, has adopted a seven-point “Action Plan on Deepening Industrial Cooperation among BRICS Countries”. The action plan states that the world economy is still in a period of...
