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...

5G subs set to triple

5G continues scaling faster than any previous mobile generation, despite the macroeconomic challenges. Global 5G subscriptions are expected to hit a massive 1,9-billion by the end of the year, according to data presented by SportsLens.com. The explosive growth will...

Global subscription streaming revenue to hit $137bn by 2027

In just five years, the number of people using subscription-based streaming services has nearly doubled, jumping from 610-million in 2017 to 1,16-billion last year. Streaming has taken the home video market by storm and will continue to outgrow other market segments...

All the winners at MTN’s Business App of the Year Awards

Naked Insurance has been crowned the overall winner in the eighth edition of the MTN Business App of the Year Awards, one of the country's most prestigious app development competitions. The Naked Insurance app uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence and chat-bots to...

Ukheshe, Mindbridge scoop fintech awards

The South African Reserve Bank has announced the 2019 Global Fintech Hackcelerator@Southern Africa competition winners - Ukheshe and Mindbridge. The Global Fintech Hackcelerator, powered by KPMG Matchi, is a fintech acceleration programme that creates a platform for...

Unemployment rate highest since 2003

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has reported that South Africa's unemployment rate increased from 29,0% in 2019Q2 to 29,1% in the third quarter - the highest jobless reading since 2003. South Africa now has the joint fourth-highest unemployment rate out of 182...

Halloween posters that are out of this world …

Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released two new posters celebrating some truly terrifying exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. Free to download, the entertaining posters recall vintage horror movie advertisements but have a decidedly astronomical...

Study pinpoints birthplace of modern humans in southern Africa

A new study has concluded that the earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African homeland and thrived there for 70 000 years. The breakthrough findings are published in the journal Nature, with the authors...

Africa’s 5G future hangs in the balance

Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth from next-generation 5G services will be reliant on the availability of a specific strand of radio frequencies, known as 'millimetre wave' frequencies, which are set to be identified for use by mobile operators at WRC-19. However,...

Just months until Africa’s IP addresses run out

South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) says local ICT service providers that don't support the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) are potentially threatening the country's participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). IPv4...

Why users are the weakest link

Humans still present the biggest cybersecurity risk, according to Duo Security founder Dug Song, formerly a member of the elite hacker group w00w00. Song co-founded Duo Security in 2010 and the company was bought by Cisco for $2,35-billion in 2018. He spoke to...

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