Konica Minolta fights landfill overflow

Customers of Konica Minolta South Africa now have the option of recycling their Konica Minolta toner bottles, cartridges and imaging units through the company’s new recycling programme. The programme will allow local clients to reduce their environmental impact by...
Breakthrough in 7nm chip design

Breakthrough in 7nm chip design

The world’s first 7nm (nanometre) chips, which could potentially result in the ability to place more than 20-billion tiny transistors on fingernail-sized chips, have been developed by an alliance led by IBM Research. To achieve the higher performance, lower power and...

UCT’s malaria drug sparks global interest

Ground-breaking work by the University of Cape Town’s Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) in the research and development (R&D) of a potential single-dose cure for malaria has attracted international interest, funding and scientists from around the world....

Generation Open aims to change the world

The Open Data Institute (ODI) has recognised a generation of network thinkers who are changing the world with open data, at the Open Data Awards held in London yesterday. Awarded by ODI co-founders, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, 300 delegates convened to...

SA signs up to Russian nuclear projects

Russian state corporation Rosatom and South Africa’s Department of Energy have signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs): the Memorandum on Co-operation in Training Personnel for the South African Nuclear Power Industry; and the Memorandum on Co-operation in...

SA students head to Imagine Cup in Seattle

Following a heavily contested world semi-final involving 150 student projects from 64 countries, two second-year students from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) find their team – Digital Interactive Games – listed among the 33 top teams competing...