Jun 21, 2017
As new digital economies continue to rise across industries from biomedicine research to autonomous driving, generating a plethora of data, there is a great demand for high-performance computing (HPC) to advance systems for scalability and agility to support optimal...
Jun 21, 2017
The deadline for South African companies to attain compliance with the regulations laid out in the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI), is fast approaching with the Act coming into full effect in 2018. And, says Terry Ramabulana, head of public sector at...
Jun 21, 2017
Facebook has announced the first three Middle East and North Africa (MENA) winners of its inaugural Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge. The challenge was launched in February to reward developers who were able to create the most innovative new bots on Messenger....
Jun 20, 2017
Kepler NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalogue of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting in their star’s habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a...
Jun 20, 2017
American International Group (AIG), IBM and Standard Chartered Bank have successfully piloted the first multinational, “smart contract” based insurance policy using blockchain distributed ledger technology.The blockchain solution creates a new level of...
Jun 20, 2017
Gartner has unveiled the top global 100 vendors in IT in 2016 based on their revenue across IT (excluding communication services) and component market segments. In the “Gartner Global Top 100: IT” vendors, Apple was the largest vendor with more than...