These were the 2024 crypto winners
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Emerging smart sensor applications in industrial IoT
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Young SA scientists off to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
The Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings has selected and announced nine young scientists from South Africa to participate at the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Physiology/Medicine from 25 to 30 June 2023 in Lindau, Germany. In Lindau's...
Crypto gains less than stocks, but revenue still set to double
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What you can do to improve data quality
Gartner has identified 12 actions to help chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) and other D&A leaders improve data quality (DQ) to avoid high costs and deliver sustainable value to their organisation. "Data quality issues cost a lot," says Jason Medd, director...
New study aims to help Africans ‘age well’
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SA still well positioned to tap potential
Despite the geographic distance, capacity constraints and logistical difficulties, South African trade to the heavyweights in the Northern Hemisphere has increased over the years and remains a key driver in preserving a positive trade balance. "Regardless of the...
Why SA inflation should come down
Schroders believes that South Africa's inflation should come down, and monetary policy should start easing soon. By David Rees, senior emerging markets economist at Schroders Inflation in South Africa has continued to surprise to the upside in the past couple of...
IBM, universities in $100m pact to develop a quantum supercomputer
At the G7 Summit in Japan, IBM announced a 10-year, $100 million initiative with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum-centric supercomputer powered by 100 000 qubits. Quantum-centric supercomputing is an entirely new, and as of...
Quantum computing breakthrough for computational fluid dynamics in jet engines
Nvidia, Rolls-Royce and Classiq, a quantum software company, have announced a quantum computing breakthrough aimed at bringing ever-increasing efficiency to jet engines. Using Nvidia's quantum computing platform, the companies have designed and simulated the world's...
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