A familiar face takes the reins at Tarsus

By Mark Davison - After months of speculation, Alviva Holdings – parent company of Tarsus Distribution – has announced a new, permanent CEO for one of South Africa’s oldest and leading distributors. Thibault Dousson, currently director of Lenovo’s Solution and...

European orbiter detects hints of volcanic activity on Mars

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the planet may be making their way up...

NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...

Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

Webb reveals new structures within iconic supernova

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun the study of one of the most renowned supernovae, SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A). Located 168 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, SN 1987A has been a target of intense observations at wavelengths ranging from...

Customer service, support set for transformation

Generative AI, digital customer service, and conversational user interfaces (CUIs) will transform customer service and support by 2028, according to Gartner. "The common theme of these three technologies are their ability to streamline the customer journey and enable...

Bitcoin halving highlights role of crypto

Bitcoin's halving event on Monday underscores that the "long-term future of cryptocurrencies is secure". This is the word from Nigel Green , CEO and founder of deVere Group, as the world's supply of bitcoin was cut on Monday. The halving event, occurring only every...

Lockdown regulations drive piracy increase

The Publishers Associations of South Africa, an affiliate of the Copyright Coalition of South Africa, has served cease and desist letters on the administrators of the WhatsApp group called "Die Boek Klub" as part of an ongoing effort to curb an explosion in piracy...

Pandemic to devastate retail sales

Global retail sales are expected to drop by $2,1-trillion in 2020, according to a new report from Forrester. China is the worst affected country in the Asia Pacific region, with $192-billion of retail sales (excluding restaurants, automobile, and gasoline) lost from...

Trends that will impact the future of work

Organisations can differentiate themselves from competitors during the Covid-19 pandemic by leveraging nine ongoing trends, according to Gartner. These trends are broken into three categories: accelerating trends, new impacts that were not previously part of the...

Data drives Vodacom’s SA growth

The Vodacom group has reported group revenue up 4,8% (3,5 %) year ended 31 March 2020, supported by group service revenue growth of 5% (3,5%). The group also added 5,9-million customers, to serve a combined 116-million customers. Total financial services customers up...

Non-Covid healthcare must be maintained

Countries should maintain essential health care to non-Covid-19 patients while dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. This is a message from Secretary-General Patricia Scotland ahead of the Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting taking place virtually on 14 May. Some...

Massive new oil cuts on the cards

The second quarter of 2020 will see the largest volume of liquids production cuts, including shut-in production, in the history of the oil industry. IHS Markit now expects much as 17 MMb/d total liquids output (which includes nearly 14 MMb/d of crude oil production)...

Lockdown, tyranny and the rule of law

House arrest is a recognised form of punishment for a convicted criminal, writes Rex van Schalkwyk, chairman of the FMF Rule of Law Board of Advisors and former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. The punishment can, however, only legitimately be imposed upon...

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