SA talent willing to embrace reskilling amid GenAI advances
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Meta grants look to empower AI-driven organisations
Continuing its commitment to supporting innovative use cases of open-source AI to address critical global challenges, Meta has launched Llama 3.1 Impact Grants. Building on the success of previous grant programmes, the Llama 3.1 Impact Grants will provide up to...
Massive growth for global IaaS public cloud services
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 41,4% in 2021, to total $90,9-billion, up from $64,3-billion in 2020, according to Gartner. Amazon retained the number one position in the IaaS market in 2021, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and...
Significant privacy risks found in third-party automotive apps
Mobile applications for connected cars provide various features to make life easier for motorists, but they can also be a source of risk. Kaspersky experts analysed 69 popular third-party mobile applications designed to control connected cars and defined the main...
Worldwide hardcopy peripheral shipments down
Worldwide shipments of hardcopy peripherals decreased 12,3% year over year to 22,4-million units in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22). Shipment value was down 10,6% year over year during the quarter to $9.7 billion, according to new data from the International Data...
2022 ICT Skills Survey goes live
The impact of hybrid work models on IT skills in South Africa will be among the issues coming under the spotlight in the 2022 JCSE – IITPSA ICT Skills Survey, which is now live online. The survey, a trusted guide to the state of ICT skills in South Africa, is carried...
Global smartphone shipments to decline amid global uncertainty, weaker demand
According to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker forecast, shipments of smartphones will decline 3,5% to 1,31-billion units in 2022. After three consecutive quarters of decline and increasing challenges in both supply...
IoDSA says Comair incident demonstrates the importance of corporate governance
Comair returned to the headlines by advising on 1 June that it was voluntarily suspending its flights until the funding necessary to resume operations had been secured. What has got customers hot under the collar, though, is that it had advertised a one-day sale on...
Inner cities are growth engines attracting young homebuyers
Inner cities play a crucial role in stimulating, supporting and enhancing a country’s economic growth. They are hubs for productivity, and due to the scale, diversity and density of activity, ideas and information flow freely, offering a wealth of creative and...
Artificial smart skin could lead to new generation of touch-sensitive robots
An electronic skin which can learn from feeling “pain” could help create a new generation of smart robots with human-like sensitivity. A team of engineers from the University of Glasgow developed the artificial skin with a new type of processing system based on...
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On-premise versus the cloud
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Data science for business differentiation
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Lesedi Nuclear Services uses Panda solution
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VMware vSphere 6 boosts hybrid cloud
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Digital transformation key in auto industry
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VMware launches new enterprise storage
VMware advanced to the next phase of its software-defined storage strategy with the launch of a new generation of enterprise storage solutions. Designed to enable mass adoption of software-defined storage, VMware Virtual SAN 6 will introduce significant scalability...
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Python & AWS Software Engineer – 1249EvdB – Gauteng Johannesburg
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