Nvidia launches Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform
At CES 2025, Nvidia announced Nvidia Cosmos, a platform comprising state-of-the-art generative world foundation models, advanced tokenisers, guardrails and an accelerated video processing pipeline built to advance the development of physical AI systems such...
2024 vehicle sales decline, despite late-year recovery
December vehicle sales in South Africa rose for the third consecutive month, increasing by 2,5% compared to December 2023. This growth was primarily driven by an 8,2% rise in passenger car sales, with the rental industry continuing to play a significant role in the...
Investors turn to SA amid mineral diversification efforts
As global players make strides towards transitioning to a cleaner energy future, demand for critical minerals - which are essential for the production of lithium-ion batteries and associated technologies behind solar and wind components and renewable power systems -...
Consumers are spending more on groceries and eating out
FNB's card data shows that individual customers are spending more of their income on groceries and entertainment, which includes out-of-home experiences such as eating out. Today, groceries account for 28% of customer spend, compared to 27% last year, and...
SA scientists to jet off to Dallas for Regeneron ISEF
A group of six young scientists from South Africa will travel to Dallas, Texas to showcase their scientific brilliance on the global stage at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). They all won the opportunity to represent the country...
Beware scammers feeding on Africa’s crypto craze
Cryptocurrency has become incredibly popular in Africa and, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), transactions hit $20-billion a month from as early as 2021. But its popularity as an alternative route to financial stability, investments, and payments has...
FNB on the hunt for young entrepreneurs
Entries for the second year of the FNB Youth Start-up Accelerator (YSA) programme - in partnership with Fetola - are now open. The programme provides mentorship, training, and support to young, committed, first-time entrepreneurs. The YSA programme is a fresh,...
Structured data management still driving enterprise storage market
Structured databases/data management continued driving the largest share of enterprise IT infrastructure spending in the second half of 2022 (2H22), says International Data Corporation (IDC), which adds that organisations spent $7,6-billion on compute and storage...
Government agencies come under attack
The first quarter of 2023 has already seen 32 significant cyberattacks on government agencies, according to data from Surfshark. A significant nine of these were reported to be cyber espionage - nearly as many as during the whole of 2022. Yearly tendencies show that...
Caught in the act: astronomers spot a star devouring a planet
A new study published online Wednesday, May 3, in the journal Nature documents the first observation of an aging star swallowing a planet. After running out of fuel in its core, the star began to grow in size, shrinking the gap with its neighboring planet, eventually...
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South African SMBs ripe for ransomware attacks
While the immediate threat of cyber-carnage in the wake of the WannaCry attack has been averted, South African SMBs are in the firing line of the next global malware outbreak. That's the view of Craig Jones, chief technology officer of technology and digital...
StorTech achieves ISO 20 000 certification
IT business solutions organisation StorTech has become an ISO/IEC 20 000 certified business by complying with the international standard for IT service management. StorTech is a provider of IT business solutions that enable its clients to gain business agility and a...
Retail security in the digital age
The retail sector is transforming at a significant pace and there is a high adoptability to digital, if consumer digital uptake is any indication, writes Sanjay Vaid, director: cyber security and risk: Africa at Wipro. As per IDC's FutureScape: Worldwide Retail 2017...
Protect your organisation from ransomware
Brendan Mc Aravey, country manager at Citrix South Africa, offers advice on how to avoid becoming a victim. Recent news of possibly the largest ransomware attack in history -- WannaCry -- has permeated the globe. WannaCry is an operating system exploit, one of many...
Nedbank’s Karri app to pay for kids’ school activities
Nedbank has announced a new payments solution to simplify school payments to help teachers, parents and kids. The Karri Payment Solution powered by Nedbank is a global first, and is aimed at parents, teachers and schools who are often inconvenienced by payments for...
Defeat data chaos in the connected age
Currently, organisations have access to more data than ever before. However, this data cannot be used to its full advantage if it cannot be identified, located, and established if it can be trusted, writes Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. An effective data...
SUSE Academic Program open to students
SUSE is opening the door to the world of open source software for students around the globe through the new SUSE Academic Program. SUSE is sharing no- or low-cost open source software, training curriculum, tools and support to help schools, universities, teaching...
Enabling Africa’s youth to build tomorrow
Brett Parker, MD of SAP Africa, thinks the words to the Bob Dylan classic, "The Times they are a'Changing", are stil relevant today. "Your old road is rapidly agin'. "Please get out of the new one, If you can't lend your hand "For the times they are a-changin'." Bob...
Advanced intuitive analytics in Qlik Sense
Qlik has previewed Qlik Sense June 2017, the newest release of its next-generation application for self-service business intelligence (BI) and visual analytics. Built on a fully integrated, cloud-ready platform, and powered by the patented QIX Associative Indexing...
VM backup and recovery trial software from Commvault
Commvault has launched its new VM Backup and Recovery trial software for customers and partners with significant enhancements on user experience, disaster recovery and cloud on-ramp. Commvault's VM Backup and Recovery software expands the company's leadership in...
Intermediate DevOps Engineer (Remote) – Western Cape Westlake
ENVIRONMENT:PLAY a critical role as part of a rapidly growing Engineering function of a cutting-edge Tech Applications seeking the technical expertise of an Intermediate DevOps Engineer to ensure the high-performance of its infrastructure, cloud environments, and...
Agile Delivery Lead/Scrum Master – Western Cape Cape Town
This position is a result of the establishment of a new engineering organisation focused on accelerating value creation through insights and machine learning. The organisation comprises three engineering squads that handle data ingestion, storage, and ML artefact...
Data Analyst at PnP – Gauteng South Kensington
IntroductionTo provide and enforce organizational data standards, common vocabulary, reports, and the development and use of standardized data. By Developing/Managing rules in SAP Information Steward system.Duties & ResponsibilitiesEnsure business data definitions...
Front End Developer at ALJ recruitment
I'm in the market for a fresh and sharp front-end resource. Technologies are mainly vanilla js and React with a backend api. The resource would need to work on a contractual basis strictly for paid time (hours worked when requested to do so) only. Desired Skills:...
Applications Engineer
Position Title: Applications EngineerReporting to: Engineering Manager and the Managing DirectorIndustry experience requirement: Mechanical Engineering / Component Manufacturing We are looking for an experienced applications engineer who has a passion for serving...
Full Stack Developer
This role can be remote / Hybrid. ROLE OVERVIEW You will be shaping the direction of the platform and product and, in the process, create pioneering experiences for some of the world's largest brands - pushing the boundaries of what's possible using web technology....
Front End Developer at ALJ recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg Region
I'm in the market for a fresh and sharp front-end resource. Technologies are mainly vanilla js and React with a backend api. The resource would need to work on a contractual basis strictly for paid time (hours worked when requested to do so) only. Desired Skills:...
Applications Engineer – Gauteng Edenvale
Position Title: Applications EngineerReporting to: Engineering Manager and the Managing DirectorIndustry experience requirement: Mechanical Engineering / Component Manufacturing We are looking for an experienced applications engineer who has a passion for serving...
Full Stack Developer – Western Cape Cape Town CBD
This role can be remote / Hybrid. ROLE OVERVIEW You will be shaping the direction of the platform and product and, in the process, create pioneering experiences for some of the world's largest brands - pushing the boundaries of what's possible using web technology....
Senior Developer
The Senior Developer will part of an inhouse development team that produce software solutions. The developer work together with a team of business analysts and other developers to develop and provide support on investment administration and Manco systems. The...
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