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...

Generative AI could expand by 10-times by 2028

The popularity of ChatGPT has spawned an array of startups and kicked off a race by major technology providers to compete for mindshare. Revenues of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology offerings are forecast to reach $3,7-billion in 2023 and expand to...

Enterprise, industrial metaverses exceed expectation

Companies that have already deployed industrial metaverse use cases are seeing more reported benefits than those still in the planning phase expect, most notably in capital expenditure reduction (15%), sustainability (10%) and safety improvement (9%). This is...

Terrorism a top risk for multinationals

Recent years have seen an increase in major terrorism events across the world, as attacks in Brussels, London, Madrid, Nigeria, Paris, Tunisia and Turkey have highlighted the growing need for terrorism and political violence cover. So it's not surprising that...

Pharma looks to big data, blockchain, cloud, security

Big data, blockchain, cloud computing and cybersecurity are the main technologies where pharma companies see the need to invest. This is according to GlobalData's latest report, "Emerging Technology Trends Survey - Pharma 2019", which reveals that over 70% of pharma...

Fujitsu, Ericsson accelerate wireless connectivity

Fujitsu and Ericsson are joining forces to help realize the full value of Industry 4.0, with a major new initiative to create and accelerate wireless cellular connectivity solutions for the manufacturing sector. The two companies have signed a global memorandum of...

President moves to strengthen SA’s investment stance

Ahead of the South Africa Investment Conference in Sandton from 5-7 November 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken steps to strengthen South Africa's investment promotion drive by appointing additional special envoys on investment and establishing a dedicated...

Wits researchers take structured light on a quantum leap

Quantum mechanics is embracing patterns of light to create an alphabet that can be leveraged to build a light-based quantum network. Structured light is a fancy way to describe patterns or pictures of light, but deservedly so as it promises future communications that...

Kaspersky opens up its threat intelligence

Kaspersky is sharing more than 20 years of cyberthreat expertise by opening privileged access to curated features of its threat intelligence. Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal is a single point of access for the company's threat intelligence, providing all...

Most diversity and inclusion initiatives ineffective

Only 36% of diversity and inclusion (D&I) leaders report that their organisation has been effective at building a diverse workforce, according to Gartner, which also reveals that 80% of organisations rate themselves as ineffective at developing a diverse and...

Samsung and IBM launch new platform

Samsung Electronics and IBM have announced a new joint platform leveraging IBM Cloud and AI capabilities, and Samsung's mobile offerings. The collaboration between the two companies brings together IBM's capabilities with the Samsung Galaxy ecosystem for today's...

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R+D / Technical Specialist – Meat Processing

A well-known supplier of spice ingredients supplying the food manufacturing and meat processing industry requires the above to handle all r + d and technical aspects as well as being able to troubleshoot on a variety of products at customer sites within the meat and...

Mainframe Application Developer at Accenture

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