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UCT debuts sign language-accessible website
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Senior execs see sustainability as an opportunity
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SA telcos must address customers’ major pain points
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Salesforce accelerates growth plans in Africa with AI
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Geo-distributed businesses most at risk
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Nutanix and Dell collaborate on hybrid multicloud solutions
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IBM and Pasqal partner on quantum-centric supercomputers
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Microsoft takes the global data centre lead
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First Boeing Starliner crewed flight en route to ISS
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are safely in orbit on the first crewed flight test aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft bound for the International Space Station. As part of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the astronauts lifted off at 10h52 EDT on...
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Nutanix named one of the 2020 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For
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