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SA households see increase in financial assets
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Fintech, edtech dominate SA venture capital investments
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Telkom, MTN still in acquisition talks
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Early humans extracted glue from a local conifer
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Hybrid cloud is critical to modernisation, but challenges remain
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Responsible AI still a pipe dream for many
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Intel accelerates developer ecosystem
At Intel Innovation, Intel illustrated how its efforts and investments to foster an open ecosystem catalsze community innovation, from silicon to systems to apps and across all levels of the software stack. Through an expanding array of platforms, tools and solutions,...
Government organisations at higher encryption risk from ransomware
A massive 72% of state and local government organisations attacked by ransomware had their data encrypted - 7% more than the cross-sector average. In fact, according to Sophos's "The State of Ransomware in State and Local Government 2022" report, only 20% of state and...
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