Government failed to aptly support the elderly and young children during the Covid-19 pandemic, a study by the University of Cape Town (UCT) student Juhi Kasan has found. As the world reeled from the direct effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, Kasan started her...

Building on its collaboration with Meta on open innovation for AI, IBM plans to host Meta's Llama 2-chat 70 billion parameter model in the watsonx.ai studio - with early access now available to select clients and partners. The move strengthens the relationship between...

The cases of downloading malicious programs targeting users' bank accounts has become more frequent within 2020, according to Kaspersky statistics. In fact, 34% of South African computers may be more at risk of infection without users knowledge, as they rely on an...

An emergency virtual meeting of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development has adopted an Agenda for Action outlining immediate measures that governments, industry, the international community and civil society can take to shore-up digital networks,...

Web cams, headsets, software and notebooks are the categories generating the biggest increase in channel revenue across Western Europe, as home working and schooling forces major changes in demand, according to market intelligence company Context. Latest figures from...

Total end-user spending on IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, recovered in the fourth quarter of 2019 (4Q19) after two consecutive quarters of decline. According to...

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a huge demand for refurbished computers as South Africa companies quietly execute their disaster recovery plan and staff set up to work from home. Deemed an essential service, Xperien has ramped up its production line and has been able...

The current lockdown due to the rampant Covid-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the livelihoods of billions of people all over the world. Since the only logical way to curb the spread of infections is to stay at home, the value of solid and reliable Internet is...

IBM has announced a new project whereby anyone in the world with a PC, laptop or Mac and an Internet connection could help scientists seek chemical compounds that might be effective against Covid-19. To do so, volunteers' devices will perform small, virtual...

Following the directive by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 23 March 2020, South Africa entered a 21-day national lockdown at midnight on 26 March 2020. But have our citizens heeded the call to stay at home? One way to verify whether South Africans are indeed confining...