PC shipments tank as memory crunch bites

Worldwide PC shipments fell 4,9% year-over-year in Q2 2026 to 68,2-million units, according to IDC — the first decline after nine consecutive quarters of growth. A persistent memory chip shortage drove the reversal, pushing vendors to pull inventory forward as far as...

AI, cross-border trade reshape e-commerce in SA

AI could soon choose what we buy, sustainability has shifted from nice-to-have to non-negotiable, and second-hand shopping is rapidly becoming mainstream, according to DHL’s E-Commerce Trends Report 2026. Based on survey findings from 29 000 online shoppers and 5 800...

How air transport industry plans to move 10bn passengers a year

It really sounds like a frequent flyer’s dream: Borders cleared in 10 seconds; weather delays cut by 65%; lost luggage down 90%; AI continually driving efficiency. But all this is becoming reality, says the SITA Impact Report 2025, documenting a year of customer-led...

Euclid space telescope marks a milestone in cosmic history

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found - and two of these giant and dazzling galaxy cores, powered by gargantuan black holes, are the earliest quasars yet observed in cosmic history. They shone with...

AI set to enter boom period

A new forecast from IDC's Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide shows that global spending on artificial intelligence (AI) - including software, hardware, and services for AI-centric systems - will reach $154-billion in 2023, an increase of 26,9% over the...

ChatGPT debuts in Azure OpenAI Service

Microsoft has announved that ChatGPT is available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service. Eric Boyd, corporate vice-president: AI platform at Microsoft, explains that more than 1 000 customers are now applying the most advanced AI models - including Dall-E 2, GPT-3.5,...

Training makes legal departments more cost-effective

Cost-effective legal departments allocate almost twice as much of their in-house budget to training than higher-cost peers, according to Gartner. The most cost-effective legal departments commit to a strategy of continuous improvement of their in-house capabilities,...

Is SA food insecure or are we wasting too much?

South Africans are not heeding the call to save food. According to a new report, "2017 Food Loss and Waste: Facts and Futures" from the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF-SA), a third of all food in the country is not eaten but wasted. Quantified, this...

Wits spearheads African AI research initiative

The Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), in partnership with the Cirrus Initiative, has announced plans for a new artificial intelligence (AI) research operation in Africa. Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, deputy vice-chancellor:...

International tourism up in 2019

International tourist arrivals grew 4% from January to June 2019, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer published ahead of the 23rd World Tourism Organization General Assembly. Growth was led by the Middle East...

Luno shows sterling growth

South African cryptocurrency exchange Luno now has 3-million customers (wallets) spanning 40 countries. Marius Reitz, Luno's GM: Africa, says, that despite bitcoin's volatility, cryptocurrency trades continue to rise. "In the last month, more than R80-million worth of...

Trickle-down effect drives sophisticated cyber-threats

By Kathy Gibson - The cyber-threat industry is a massive - and profitable - one and it's getting more sophisticated thanks to a trickle-down effect of advanced nation state tools being made available to serious organised crime groups, cyber-terrorists and others. They...

AI increases skills gap, time to retrain staff

In the next three years, as many as 120-million workers in the world's 12 largest economies may need to be retrained or reskilled as a result of AI and intelligent automation. This is among the findings from a new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study, which...

Algorithm-guided selling set to debut

Nearly 51% of sales organisations have already deployed or plan to deploy algorithmic-guided selling in the next five years, according to Gartner. Intended to augment more traditional sales tools, such as sales playbooks, algorithmic-guided selling uses sales data to...

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Purpose of The Role: To ensure a quality product is delivered, the IT Quality Test Analyst will work closely as part of the software delivery team and will assist with testing life cycle activities to ensure successful completion of business initiatives. Furthermore,...

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