Jul 1, 2016
Eight University of Johannesburg (UJ) students from the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (FEBE) are heading to London to compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon Europe 2016 from today (30 June 2016) until Sunday (3 July 2016). The UJ team aims to ratchet up...
Jul 1, 2016
NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft has entered the planet’s magnetosphere, where the movement of particles in space is controlled by what’s going on inside Jupiter. “We’ve just crossed the boundary into Jupiter’s home turf,”...
Jun 30, 2016
Security company Imperva has mitigated a massive DDoS assault, a 470Gbps attack that targeted a Chinese gambling company and lasted over four hours. Writing on the Imperva blog, Igal Zeifman and Ofer Gayer tell of how the company had been the victim of several other...
Jun 30, 2016
Global revenue from automotive telematics systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 19% to $4,2-billion by the end of 2021, according to new forecasts from IHS Automotive. These forecasts are driven by continued innovation in vehicle...
Jun 30, 2016
In a new update to the Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide, International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that organisations across Western Europe will invest more than $145-billion in Internet of Things (IoT) hardware, software, services, and...
Jun 30, 2016
Futurist and author Alvin Toffler has died at the age of 87. Toffler shot to prominence with his 1970 best-seller “Future Shock”, which focuses on the post-Industrial world – and has never been out of print. Follow-up books included “The Third Wave” and “Powershift”,...
