How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

A day without the Internet would cost $43bn

The Internet has become such an integral part of our daily lives that we often do not even think about how much we rely on it. But if the Internet were to go down globally for even just a single day, the economic impact would be enormous. Such interruption of online...

Digital payments to become a $10trn industry

Over the past five years, more than 1,6-billion people worldwide have embraced digital payments, pushing the total user count in this market to a whopping 4,44-billion - or more than half the world`s population. This massive user base has helped the total transaction...

Nvidia, GSK apply AI to medicine, vaccine discovery

NVidia has announced a partnership with global healthcare company GSK and its AI group, which is applying computation to the drug and vaccine discovery process. GSK has recently established a new London-based AI hub, one of the first of its kind, which will leverage...

Covid accelerates the move to cashless business

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the move away from cash as customers increasingly demand low-touch or contactless payments. New research from Yoco, polling 4 386 small business owners from its customer base, investigated how many businesses had elected to go...

IBM Research aims to radically accelerate materials discovery

From a global pandemic to global warming, 2020 has illuminated the essential role of science -- as well as clear actions based on that science -- to combat some of the greatest challenges of our time. The need to rethink how the world creates, consumes and disposes of...

Wearable sensor industry has tripled to $2,5bn

The wearable sensor industry will be worth $2,5-billion in 2020, having tripled in size since 2014. This comes despite the significant economic challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused a reduction in the total revenue this year. However, the...

Gaming PCs, monitors benefit from Covid lockdowns

Despite the negative and outright disastrous effects of the global pandemic, the spread of Covid-19 has brought with it some opportunities in the consumer electronics industry. With many people stuck at home, the gaming market has benefited from new interest. As a...

Retailers urged to gear up for on online Black Friday

Over the past decade Black Friday deals have seen sales skyrocket for both brick-and-mortar retailers and their e-commerce counterparts with a 2019 GeoPoll study showing a 16% increase in reported Black Friday shopping between 2017 and 2019. In 2020, online retailers...

Call for government to halt decline in innovation funding

The government has been urged to boost its support for research and development (R&D) in South Africa, to help the economy to weather the economic storms of the Covid-19 pandemic. The call came from Cova Advisory director Tumelo Chipfupa, following a webinar on...

Check Point fingerprints and tracks malware developers’ work

Security researchers at Check Point have developed a technique to identify the developers of the exploits for software vulnerabilities, including zero-day exploits which are highly prized by malware authors. By recognizing the unique "hand-writing" of individual...

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