Despite the hype, many consumers admit they don't trust artificial intelligence (AI), with a significant proportion also cynical about the benefits it brings. Research conducted by Herbert Smith Freehills reveals that just 5% of UK consumers are unconcerned about the...

Researchers are cautiously optimistic about where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will lead humanity, but "we must develop more guardrails". This is according to Pascale Fung, chair professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering of Hong...

African leaders are urged to stand together and present a united front to tackle climate change. This is one of the main messages to come out of Africa Day at the COP 25 climate meeting. Speaking on behalf of the African Union, Egypt's minister of environmental...

The IT channel should be braced for much weaker performance in the PC market in 2020, with year-on-year sales likely to turn negative in the second half of the year. Analysing data collected from vendors, resellers and distributors, Context believes strong commercial...

Umhlanga-based financial services provider Talksure has walked away with gold at the 2019 Contact Centre World Global Awards. CEO Jacques de Beer, accepted the award for Best Large-Sized Contact Centre at a prestigious awards ceremony held at the Fairmont in...

Lenovo and Intel will collaborate to modernise HPC infrastructure at Austria's most powerful supercomputer - the Vienna Scientific Cluster-4 (VSC-4). Built on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, VSC-4 supports more than 300...

In 2019, the number of unique malicious objects detected by Kaspersky's web antivirus solution rose by an eighth, compared to last year -- reaching 24 610 126. This growth was mainly influenced by a 187% rise in web skimmer files. Other threats, such as backdoors and...

EOH Abantu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EOH, has entered into a sale of shares agreement with Afrocentric Health (RF) to dispose of all of its shares in Dental Information Systems Holdings (Denis) for a total value of R250-million. Denis, together with its...

The EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market rose in value 2,7% year-on-year to reach $325,5-million in the third quarter of 2019, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker. This follows the...

As South Africans prepare to celebrate the festive season, MTN is capacitating its network in high density areas and tourist hotspots in order to carry increased voice and data traffic over the festive season. Operations are underway to cater for additional coverage...