The roles and activities performed by IT professionals have evolved dramatically over the past 10 years due to the convergence of modern development technologies, cloud platforms, and as-a-service offerings that can significantly improve overall productivity. Today,...

Skills are a hot commodity in virtually every industry across all sectors globally. The emerging workforce, and so-called Gen Z workers in particular, are in demand and more employers are offering early finish Fridays or summer Fridays as a perk to attract...

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Summit in Kyalami - Humans harbour a deep-seated fear that artificial intelligence (AI) will negatively impact our lives - to the extent that some people believe it will result in our extinction. Alex Rubsaam, faculty member in...

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Summit in Kyalami - A defining feature of humanity is that we are swimming in data. But information consumes the resource of our attention, says Rachel Sibley, from the augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) faculty at Singularity...

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Summit in Kyalami - Before the singularity (the point where machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence) can happen, we need to all connect. Ramez Naam, Singularity U chair for energy and environment, calls this the "syncularity"....

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Summit in Kyalami - An exponential mindset is the key to real and meaningful change and innovation. Laila Pawlak, head of Singularity University Nordic, explains that, in a world of accelerating change, we need to create extraordinary...

Kaspersky honeypots - networks of virtual copies of various internet connected devices and applications - have detected 105-million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276 000 unique IP addresses in the first six months of the year. This figure is around nine times...

Seacom has partnered with Vodacom Business Africa to initiate the next chapter of both companies' African network connectivity ventures. Since the launch of its business division, Seacom has substantially grown its customer and partnership base. The latest partnership...

In response to the release of the CCMA's report for the year by director Cameron Morajane, trade union body Solidarity says that the large-scale job losses in South Africa cannot be mainly attributed to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Morajane says there were...

Old Mutual has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and will migrate its digital customer platforms, core insurance applications and product administration systems to the cloud. The company will migrate over 1 000 applications to AWS, shutting down its data...