Oracle Cloud rolls out Nvidia Blackwell GPUs
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Intel receives motion picture award
Later today (29 April 2025), Intel’s Open Image Denoise will be awarded a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Intel Open Image Denoise is an open source library that provides a high-performance, high-quality AI-based...
Kagiso Trust hackathon bears fruit for municipalities
A Web-based solution to improve data management in local government will undergo further development after being conceived by the winning team at a Kagiso Trust hackathon. A team of young coders dubbed Mzansi Innovators shared a R20 000 prize for their solution which...
Nvidia sees big jump in R&D spending
Nvidia propelled its research and development (R&D) expenditure to an impressive 73% in five years, spending $8,68-billion, and highlighting a substantial surge from the $2,38-billion allocated in 2019, according to Stocklytics. "The trajectory of Nvidia's R&D...
Africa Code Week empowers 17m youth with digital skills
SAP's Africa Code Week (ACW) has successfully empowered 17-million young people across 54 countries since 2015, according to the programme's latest impact results. The initiative - in partnership with UNESCO, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa...
Starlink will cut off SA users
South African users of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite service will be cut off from the end of this month. The service is not registered in this country and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) in November 2023 warned that it is illegal to...
Global coral bleaching event is happening now
The world is currently experiencing its fourth global coral bleaching event, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists and the network of global coral reef scientists aligned to the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI). This...
ISPA cries foul on fixed call termination rates
The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has questioned recently-announced aggressive reductions in fixed call termination rates. The industry representative body is also calling for implementation of the planned convergence of mobile and fixed call...
Microsoft pumps up AI investments with $1,5bn into G42
Microsoft has announced a $1,5-billion strategic investment in UAE-based artificial intelligence (AI) technology holding company G42. As part of the partnership, Brad Smith, vice-chair and president of Microsoft, will join the G42 Board of Directors. Building on the...
Tesla decimates global workforce
Elon Musk's Tesla is shedding 14 000 jobs, about 10% of its global workforce. The news comes amid a flagging market and increased competition from China. Hours after Musk made the announcement in a mail to employees, two senior executives resigned from the company....
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SA mobile industry focuses on customer orientation
The South African mobile user is riding a new wave of customer orientation that's pervading the industry. And it's about time, says Devon Meerholz, chief creative and operations officer of IMImobile SA, a communications and software specialist focused on solutions for...
Geothermal power plant for Ethiopia
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Ransomware: not about prevention anymore
Ransomware hit the headlines in 2019, with several high-profile attacks causing significant service disruption. By Johann Scheepers, country head at Commvault South Africa Some of the most notable ransomware attacks which caused lengthy outages at City of Johannesburg...
Prioritise development for an engaged workforce
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TikTok, MTN challenge creators to depict unconnected life
South Africans spend over eight hours on the internet each day. The Hootsuite Global State of Digital in 2019 report also reveals that we are also one of the highest internet users in the world. To illustrate the possibility of a world without internet, TikTok, the...
Huawei launches AppGallery vision
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Orange adopts SES medium earth orbit satellite
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DCC launches ThinkBooks in Africa
Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has introduced the ThinkBook 14 and 15 laptops to its SADC channel partners which include Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Malawi, Lesotho, Eswatini as well as the DRC. Available from April 2020, the ThinkBook 14 and 15...
Trends that will shape insurance in 2020
The insurance industry stands on the precipice of profound change - not just digital disruption, but disruption that extends to satisfying increasingly demanding customers, acquiring new ones and adapting to a changing set of challenges that are transforming the...
Is the cloud really safe?
Optimal cloud security requires a distinct way of thinking about IT infrastructure, writes Ray Pompon, principal threat evangelist at F5 Labs. Back in the day, the theft and loss of backup tapes and laptops were a primary cause of data breaches. That all changed when...
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