AI helps design superdrugs to kill drug-resistant bacteria

With help from artificial intelligence (AI), MIT researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Using generative AI algorithms, the...

AI-led businesses ignore humans at their peril

No-one would argue that artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, but there is some irony in the fact that as more business functions - from data collection and analysis, to everyday operations - are performed digitally the more customers seek to...

How chip research is shaping physical AI

AI and graphics research breakthroughs in neural rendering, 3D generation and world simulation power robotics, autonomous vehicles and content creation. Physical AI — the engine behind modern robotics, self-driving cars and smart spaces — relies on a mix of neural...

Webb finds new evidence for planet around closest solar twin

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple star system has long been a...

Search is on the talented women in science

The Foundation L'Oréal, in partnership with UNESCO, has announced the sixth edition of the Women in Science Young Talent Search in South Africa. The initiative calls for outstanding female researchers under the age of 40 from diverse scientific fields including Formal...

Cyber, ESG risks are driving more lawsuits

Which are the main factors driving the possibility that a company and its board of directors may be sued by investors or other stakeholder groups in 2023? A poor financial performance or even insolvency amid economic uncertainty and the prospect of a global recession,...

30 years on, SMS popularity is still growing

Despite the rise of new communication channels, Short Message Service (SMS) remains popular, with a 75% increase in use in 2022 compared to 2021. This is among the findings from an Infobip study marking 30 years after a software programmer sent the first message on 3...

Vodacom acquires majority interest in Vodafone Egypt

Vodacom Group has acquired a 55% interest in Vodafone Egypt Telecommunications from Vodafone Europe and Vodafone International Holdings, both indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Vodafone Group. The acquisition was first proposed in January 2022, and all suspensive...

SA among top countries losing money to data breaches

New research has revealed the top 10 countries losing the most money to data breaches - and South Africa features in 10th place with an average data breach cost of $3 210 000. A study by Proxyrack looked into the countries and industries losing the most money to data...

Targeted ransomware doubled in 2022

During the first 10 months of 2022, the proportion of users attacked by targeted ransomware has almost doubled compared to the same period of 2021. Such a striking growth indicates that ransomware gangs have continued mastering their techniques - the infamous ones as...

TB R&D funding passes $1bn but falls short of goals

For the first time in history, funding for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) hit a billion dollars worldwide in 2021. This marked a significant milestone that nonetheless falls significantly short of what's needed to stay on track to end TB,...

$30bn pledged to bring the world online

Commitments worth $29,92-billion have been pledged since March to bring the world's hardest-to-connect communities online, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for ICT. The total commitments, coming in 578...

Privacy-preserving AI technique improves brain tumour detection

Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have completed a joint research study using federated learning - a distributed machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI) approach - to help international...

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Liquid Telecom provides Vaal University bursaries

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Liquid Telecom South Africa and Vaal University of Technology will see more students accessing bursaries in the field of IT. Ten students received bursaries in 2017 to the value of R470 000, with this number...

African women break ground in science

It's not every day that you hear about cutting-edge global discoveries led by African scientists, especially female scientists. However, the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) female Fellows are breaking barriers in non-invasive measures of health, nanotechnology for cancer...

Nutanix, Dell EMC expand channel incentives

Nutanix is introducing new channel programme incentives and expanded standalone software license offerings with Dell EMC to drive the next wave of enterprise cloud adoption for its customers. With these new incentives, Nutanix will provide its partners with enhanced...

In-house vocational training can plug skills gap

Great long-term potential lies in introducing skills development initiatives especially for small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in South Africa. This is according to Richard Rayne, CEO of iLearn, which helps companies optimise skills development by offering...

Meditech extends solutions with Commvault

Commvault has announced a new partnership with Meditech Holdings South Africa that will allow electronic health record (EHR) specialists to expand the breadth of data management, compliance and record management solutions to its customers throughout Europe, Africa,...

Intel revamps IoT roadmap

We have one message for IoT developers and integrators at this year's Embedded World 2018: We are doing everything we can to help you prototype and develop your ideas faster and get your solutions to market sooner. By Jonathan Luse, GM: IoT planning and product line...

Old Mutual urges women to secure their future

Over the past year the global spotlight has been sharply focused on the harassment, abuse and exploitation of women, helping to empower women everywhere. With its theme #PressforProgress, International Women's Day on 8 March 2018 will continue to shine a light on the...

Why does AI need women?

Kriti Sharma is the vice-president: AI at Sage Group, and the creator of Pegg, an AI assistant that manages everything from money to people, with users in 135 countries. She examines why women are important in the world of AI. Over the course of the last few years,...

Angola Cables extends connectivity reach

IOX Cable and Angola Cables have signed a joint provisioning agreement aimed at developing and enhancing their respective network capabilities and services across the Americas, Africa, Europe and India. By partnering with Angola Cables, IOX is consolidating its...

Pharma firms ramp up security spend

Pharmaceutical companies require efficient technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, artificial intelligence and big data to manage information that is vital to the development and production of successful drugs. As a result, pharmaceutical firms...

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Job SummarySecure and maintain the organisation's computer systems' networkMaintain a reliable, secure and efficient data communications networkKey Performance Areas Plan and Set Up Network InfrastructureMaintain High Availability Network InfrastructureConduct...

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