IBM has announced new efforts that apply its geospatial AI technologies, including IBM's geospatial foundation model developed in collaboration with NASA, to climate efforts including analysis of urban heat islands in the United Arab Emirates (UAE); reforestation...

Sales during Global online Cyber Week (21 November to 27 November) totaled $298-billion, up 6% year on year (YoY) from $281-billion in 2022. Growth was driven primarily by order volume, rather than inflation, signalling increased consumer demand for the first time in...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will leverage Intel Xeon Scalable processors in Ruby, its latest high performance computing cluster. The Ruby system will be used for unclassified programmatic work in support of the National Nuclear Security...

A massive three quarters of employees (78%) in South Africa want to rethink pre-Covid-19 ways of working, according to new research from Kaspersky. Instead of returning to business as usual, workers are now shaping a future of business on their terms, whether that's...

The Covid-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium, a public-private effort to make supercomputing power available to researchers working on projects related to Covid-19, has entered into a new phase of operation focused on helping researchers to identify...

The information technology (IT) industry will morph in 2021, prompted by its response to the chaos of 2020 and affirmation that it is the central nervous system of our digital society. This is according to the IT Industry Outlook 2021 by CompTIA, the annual report...

Africa is not getting the investment needed to help the world meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, new research from Standard Chartered has revealed. "The $50-Trillion Question" study investigates how some of the world's largest asset managers -...

In an effort to ensure small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in South Africa survive the economic crisis, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 50 large companies have formally committed to paying their SME suppliers in 30 days. The initiative, called...

The Western Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDAT) is inviting startup companies operating in any facet of the screentech space to take part in upcoming Community of Practice (CoP) workshops. Hosted by Loudhailer and Silicon Cape, the first...

The AYO Group has posted a trading statement, warning of lower earnings for the year ended 31 August 2020. The group expects to report basic earnings per share (EPS) of between 4.34 and 10.58 cents per share, representing a decrease of between 75,8% and 90,1% compared...