Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - In 1996, chess master Garry Kasparov agreed to a match against IBM's Big Blue computer - and lost. In analysing the game, Kasparov came to the conclusion that he hadn't in fact been beaten by a machine but by a human, because it was a...

Dr Achieng Ojwang, executive director of UN Global Compact Network, South Africa - addressing the 20th Annual Standard Bank Top Women Conference - has emphasised the urgency of accelerating efforts to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) which...

TikTok's US operations are likely to be run by Oracle, which is said to have edged Microsoft out of negotiations. The deal, which hasn't been confirmed yet, is believed to be a corporate restructuring arrangement with a stake in the new US business and not an outright...

In its latest forecast release, Canalys projects global 5G smartphone shipments will reach nearly 280-million units in 2020, with 62% of these in Greater China, followed by North America and EMEA. Overall smartphone volumes are projected to decline 10,7% in 2020...

While artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionise the disease diagnosis process, its current value proposition remains below the expectations of most radiologists. IDTechEx gathered the performance measurements of over 35 AI algorithms and found...

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, global market revenue for enterprise external OEM storage systems declined 5% year over year to just under $6,3-billion during the second quarter of 2020...

Europe's largest distributors sold significantly more gaming monitors in July 2020 than in the same period last year, according to the latest research by Context. The increases coincided with the time when the pandemic, and measures taken for its containment, began...

There is increasing evidence that Africans living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension and diabetes are more likely to suffer severe cases of Covid-19 and die. In South Africa, which accounts for nearly half of all cases and deaths on the...

Many organisations choose Linux for strategically important servers and systems, not least because this operating system is thought to be safer and less prone to cyberthreats than the far more popular Windows operating system. But, while this is the case for mass...

The number of cellular IoT connections in the retail industry reached 72,4-million worldwide in 2019, according to a new research report from Berg Insight. Cellular IoT technology enables devices such as point of sale (POS) terminals, ATMs, digital signs and ticketing...