Nov 21, 2023
Shipments of hardcopy peripherals (HCP) in Western Europe (WE) declined 11,6% YoY to 3,4-million units in Q3 2023, according to recent research by International Data Corporation (IDC). While the situation tends to differ by country and brand, supply chain issues have...
Nov 21, 2023
When the Siyavula and MTN Foundations teamed up to launch the Siyavula #1MillionMaths Challenge – aimed at sparking interest in maths and to help South Africa’s high school students prepare for their final exams – they never realised the pivotal role...
Nov 20, 2023
Just 11% of organisations in South Africa are fully prepared to deploy and leverage artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technologies, according to Cisco’s inaugural AI Readiness Index. This is in line with global trends, with 14% of respondents globally considering...
Nov 20, 2023
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 16-million kilometers away – about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth – to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in...
Nov 20, 2023
OpenAI has let its CEO and board member Sam Altman go. He and chairman Greg Brockman will be joining Microsoft to head up a new AI division there. Announcing Altman’s departure, a statement from OpenAI notes that Altman’s departure follows a deliberative...
Nov 20, 2023
European startups will get a massive boost from a new generation of AI infrastructure – and it’s coming just in time. This is according to Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who says: “We’re now seeing a major second wave.” Huang was...
