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AI makes critical thinking a workforce priority

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Today’s data centre build-out dwarfs previous infrastructure investments

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Negative sentiment drives call for data centre transparency

Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb – With data centres experiencing massive growth around the globe, the industry needs to do a better job of telling people the benefits they offer humanity at large. Worldwide, uncertainty about possible risks posed by...

SolarAfrica breaks ground on solar farm

Independent power producer SolarAfrica Energy has broken ground on its first utility-scale solar farm based in the Northern Cape. Phase 1 of the SunCentral project will total around 342MW in generation capacity, with Phases 2 and 3 bringing the total size to 1GW and...

No firm date yet for Boeing Starliner return

NASA and Boeing are adjusting the return to Earth of the Starliner Crew Flight Test spacecraft with agency astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams from the International Space Station. They haven't decided on a date yet, but confirm it will only be after the 2 July...

Jaguar partners with Nvidia to add AI, automation

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Slower economy is the top regional threat

In 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic cut a deadly swathe across the world, only 27 countries in the world experienced economic growth. Global economic growth dropped from an annual rate of -3,4% to -7,6%. Concerns for a stalled economic recovery are reflected in Aon's...

Legal automation will include humans in the loop

By 2025, 30% of new legal technology automation solutions will combine software with staffing for a "human-in-the-loop" offering, according to Gartner. Despite growing demand for greater automation and increasing sophistication of tech innovations, machine learning...

Absa joins Hyperledger Foundation

Absa Bank is one of the newest members to join the Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies. The bank joins eight other new members from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas adding to the global footprint of...

Active insurance telematics policies on the rise

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Video game developers not keen on NFTs

NFT gaming has attracted a lot of interest in recent months - but video game developers do not share the same interest. According to figures presented by SafeBettingSites.com, 70% of video game developers have no interest in implementing NFT mechanics in their games....

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Gartner places McAfee in Magic Quadrant

McAfee, part of Intel Security, has announced that leading research firm Gartner has positioned the company in the leaders quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management, as published on 25 June, 2014. According to the report, “Broad...

Kaspersky patent to protect corporate CI

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted patent 8739287 to Kaspersky Lab for a technology that detects threats in corporate IT infrastructure without compromising confidential information (CI). Not all threats can be detected using locally...

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Dell grows OptiPlex portfolio

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Comstor helps Cisco weed out grey products

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IT security imperative for business

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Optimised Suse Linux server sets benchmark

By optimising Suse Linux Enterprise Server on HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA, Suse has set record-breaking benchmarks, operating more than twice as fast as similar SPARC solutions. “We worked with HP to implement performance enhancing changes to the Linux kernel...

MTN launches dynamic mobile location app

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Payroll software is a necessity

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