IBM, AWS partner to scale responsible GenAI
During AWS re:Invent, IBM and AWS will unveil new milestones in their collaboration to help businesses adopt responsible AI. By John Epperly, global MD: AWS partnership at IBM, and Mahmoud Elmashmi, managing partner: strategic partnerships at IBM Consulting Together,...
Global Internet expands, but disparities remain
An estimated 5,5-billion people are online in 2024 - an increase of 227-million individuals based on revised estimates for 2023 - according to new figures from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The estimates featured in ITU's Facts and Figures 2024 show...
Guidelines for trustworthy, resilient digital infrastructure agreed
Regulatory leaders from around the world agreed today on a new set of guidelines to secure an inclusive and sustainable digital future for all. The Best Practice Guidelines adopted at the International Telecommunication Union's Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR-23)...
NYU, Nvidia use AI to predict patient readmission
Getting discharged from the hospital is a major milestone for patients -- but sometimes, it's not the end of their road to recovery. Nearly 15% of hospital patients in the US are readmitted within 30 days of their initial discharge, which is often associated with...
Could you spot an AI-powered deepfake?
The use of AI to create voice clones or deepfakes of people talking on video - is gaining ground. While some of the examples are harmless, such as the recent photos of Pope Francis wearing a puffy designer jacket, others pose immense risks to individuals. "Current...
Look out for these common deepfake scenarios
The number of deepfake videos online is increasing at an annual rate of 900% according to the World Economic Forum (WEF). A lot of deepfake fraud cases hit major headlines in the news, with reports relating to harassment, revenge, crypto scams. Kaspersky researchers...
These are the riskiest things employees do
The top 10 risky behaviours that employees have engaged in on their work devices has been revealed by KnowBe4's latest SecurityCoach product. They include: * Entertainment domain/streaming services * Gaming website * Greymail * Adult website * Unauthorized or...
5G subs set to triple
5G continues scaling faster than any previous mobile generation, despite the macroeconomic challenges. Global 5G subscriptions are expected to hit a massive 1,9-billion by the end of the year, according to data presented by SportsLens.com. The explosive growth will...
Global subscription streaming revenue to hit $137bn by 2027
In just five years, the number of people using subscription-based streaming services has nearly doubled, jumping from 610-million in 2017 to 1,16-billion last year. Streaming has taken the home video market by storm and will continue to outgrow other market segments...
Vanishing jobs add to employment crisis
The World Economic Forum estimates that 65% of children entering Grade 1 will work in a job that doesn't exist today. South Africa is already grappling with 32% unemployment but also needs to contend with the possibility of 50% to 70% of current jobs being lost to...
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Misrepresenting matric results is fraud, says MIE
Last week Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, announced the matric pass rate of 75,1%, a 2,6 percentage point improvement on the 2016 pass rate. A total of 802 431 full- and part-time students had registered for the 2017 National Senior Certificate (NSC)...
BCX CEO appointed to iamtheCODE board
Ian Russell, CEO of BCX, has been appointed to the Board of iamtheCODE. iamtheCODE is an Africa-led global movement designed to mobilise governments, businesses and investors to support young women in STEAMD (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, and...
ADATA debuts INFAREX mouse combo
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Hitachi aims to disrupt industrial IoT
Hitachi and Hitachi Vantara recently released Hitachi's first commercial Lumada internet of things (IoT) platform. The purpose of the platform is to make it simple to harness the power of IoT data in order to drive real value for Hitachi's customers and partners. Now...
The ‘PITfalls’ in SARS’ 2017 Tax Statistics
National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service released the 10th annual edition of the tax statistics for South Africa on 12 December 2017. By Des Kruger, partner and Wesley Grimm, candidate attorney at Webber Wentzel The document provides data on the key...
King Price unpacks cybercrime
Every day we hear about phishing, spyware, malware, and more. But what are they, exactly? And what do they mean for you and your hard-earned bucks? Cybercrime is described as any crime that is committed using a computer network or hardware device. Cybercriminals use...
Dell turns e-waste into new treasures
Dell has announced an industry-first pilot to use recycled gold from used electronics in new computer motherboards, which will ship in the Latitude 5285 2-in-1s. The pilot follows a successful feasibility study on server motherboards. The closed-loop gold process...
Fujitsu PrimeFlex enhances SAP environments
Fujitsu today announces two powerful new solutions designed to help organisations deploy extremely data intensive applications needed for their digital transformation, through greatly improving the ease of management for scale-out SAP HANA in-memory database...
LG’s OLED Canyon wows CES visitors
An immersive installation that leverages flexible, eye-popping commercial display technology from LG Electronics (LG), is wowing attendees at CES 2018 here this week. The winding 90-foot-long LG OLED Canyon features 246 LG Open Frame OLED displays, in concave and...
Opera launches news app in Africa
Opera Software has announced the launch of Opera News, a newAI-poweredapp which enables people to access their favourite news articles and hottest trending videos. The release of the new app follows Opera's recent announcement that its AI-powered news service inside...
Business Application Software Manager – Gauteng Johannesburg
KEY OUTPUTS Develop and support Enterprise Business Applications.Collaborate with business to manage the conversion of high-level requirements into functional specifications and provide direction to application development staff.Ensure that the organisational standard...
Software Developer – Gauteng Petervale
Junior Software Developer - Use your brilliant talents to make magical software! The Company:Recruiting a dynamic Junior Software Developer responsible for Digital growth business solutions to join the team. Helping future-proof your business through automation and...
Business Intelligence Business Analyst / Analytics Engineer – Gauteng Centurion
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Software Developer (SQL, C#.Net) (CPT Hybrid)
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SAP BW Developer
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Full Stack Developer (.Net & React)
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IT Project Manager
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