As African CEOs embrace AI, ROI is still elusive

By Kathy Gibson - African companies are in the middle of learning and adopting artificial intelligence (AI), and adapting to the changes it brings. But they are also looking beyond adoption at how to measure value from their AI investments, says Ladi Asuni, partner...

Africa moves from AI ambition to action

AI has moved from potential to proven economic value and while ambition setting is near universal across economies, execution speed is the differentiator, according to Boston Consulting Group’s The AI Maturity Matrix 2026: AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and...

The shocking reality facing jobseekers

Of the 867 706 people who registered looking for entry-level work in retail, restaurants and quick-service outlets over a 13-month period, just 6 566 were appointed - approximately one in every 132 – and between them, they sent nearly five million applications. The...

Spatial data maps where Super El Niño will hit SA hardest

The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can't say which town or...

GenAI set to take over most B2B sales work

By 2028, 60% of B2B seller work will be executed through conversational user interfaces via generative AI sales technologies, up from less than 5% in 2023, according to Gartner. "Sales operations leaders and their technology teams must prepare for the convergence of...

Wearables bounce back

Global shipments for wearable devices returned to growth in the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23) reversing two quarters of decline, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. The market grew 8,5% year...

Carbon-free hydrogen will be cost-competitive soon

An analysis by the IHS Markit Hydrogen and Renewable Gas Forum finds that, by 2030 the production of hydrogen fuel by "splitting" water--which can be carbon-free provided the electricity used in the process is produced by renewables--could become cost competitive with...

New pics show the Sun up close

The first images from ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter are now available to the public, including the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun. Solar Orbiter is an international collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, to study our closest star, the...

AI will separate banking winners from losers

Artificial intelligence (AI) will separate winning banks from losers, say 77% of banking executives surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic. They believe Covid-19 will intensify the use of AI, making effective governance more urgent, according to an Economist...

Financial services go all-in on multi-cloud adoption

The financial services industry is accelerating its shift to the cloud, as it presses forward with digital transformation in the face of security concerns. According to the Financial Services edition of F5's 2020 State of Application Services (SOAS) report, 60% of...

Twitter hack scores on bitcoin scam

A large-scale hack of Twitter accounts, typically those with millions of followers, is part of a bitcoin scam. The hacked accounts asked followers to send bitcoin currency to a cryptocurrency wallet, with the promise that the sender would double it. Many of them...

Technology presents answer to school closures

School closures as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic are putting children at risk on a number of fronts. However, technology presents solutions to these challenges. This is according to Admire Gwanzura, vice-resident of the IITPSA and an IITPSA Western Cape chapter...

New standards will boost IoT functionality

Enabling medical equipment to accurately record the time of diagnostic readings, making it easier to locate connected devices and speeding up the time it takes to develop new apps are just some of the new features to be unveiled as part of the fourth set of oneM2M's...

New appetite for used IT equipment

There is a new willingness by corporates to consider refurbished devices and consumers are also becoming more open to buying used electronics. This is largely due to delayed imports and OEMs not being able to produce and ship new electronics. Consumers are fast...

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