AI leaders join call for a slowdown in new developments

The call for a global slowdown on artificial intelligence (AI) development is gaining traction, with the leaders of the some of the world’s largest AI companies adding their voices. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dr Dario Amodei penned an essay calling for AI companies to...

Unmanaged AI poses new ‘shadow agent’ crisis

A growing “shadow agent” crisis threatens to overwhelm businesses. According to the Veeam Software’ latest research, organisations across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are battling unmanaged AI on two fronts. On the data security front, 70% of organisations...

A third of employees laid off due to AI will need to be rehired

As AI continues to accelerate the pace and scope of work, CIOs must prepare for four shifts that will influence the future of work, says Gartner. “When business and IT executives look back on the early AI-era, they will realise their greatest mistake was believing...

IT channel pivots to add value as AI takes off

Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle TechScape - Artificial intelligence (AI) may be at the peak of the hype cycle, but this doesn’t detract from the value that the technology will bring to the industry. That’s the word from Tim Humphreys-Davies, CEO of Pinnacle, who...

Millennials, Gen Z want NFTs in their investment portfolios

More than half of millennials and nearly three-quarters of Generation Z are considering including NFTs into their investment portfolios, reveals a new survey. The findings from a global poll carried out by deVere Group show that 52% of those born between 1980 and...

Mental health of adolescent girls, young women worst hit by Covid-19

Findings from a recent study led by researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) have shown that the Covid-19 pandemic and related restrictions severely impacted the mental health of adolescent girls and...

Cloud, IoT, security drive WiFi investment

Investments in WLANs continue unabated, driven by growth in users, a shift toward mobile devices and wireless access, adoption of IoT, and the need for greater security and network performance. Security in particular is the number one network change by a wide margin,...

Top five, plus one, drive smartphone growth

Preliminary data from IHS Markit shows that the global smartphone market grew by 7% year-over-year, to 350,9-million units, from 320-million units in Q2 2016. Leaders of the pack Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Oppo and vivo all grew, while Xiaomi reversed its recent...

iPhone shipments return to growth

Samsung continued to lead the worldwide smartphone market in Q2 2017 with shipments of over 79-million units, leaving growth relatively flat. Apple held on to second place by shipping 41-million iPhones, increasing its annual shipments volume by 2%, despite...

Data must fall campaign has merit

The South African mobile communication services market needs more regulation to encourage competition in order to instil a free and open environment, which will then lead to better and more affordable pricing. This is according to Chris Daffy, chief commercial officer...

Manufacturers take to IIoT

Driven by globalisation, intensifying competition and rising customer demand for more options and higher quality products, a connected plant floor has become a necessity, and the number of organisations achieving a fully connected factory is expected to rise...

Africa’s biggest data centre set to open

Having broken ground in February this year, Teraco will go live with its new data centre - the biggest commercial facility in Africa - in November. Teraco's Riverfields Hyperscale Centre east of Johannesburg boasts more than 24MW of power and 6000m² of technical...

Cognitive computing improves IT security

Kathy Gibson at the IBM Watson Summit 2017 in Kyalami - Cybercrime is out of control, it is a systemic problem and it is getting worse. In fact, it is estimated that about 4-billion records were breached last year because of cyber-attacks. But why is it happening,...

RFID will be worth $11,2bn this year

The total RFID market will be worth $11,2-billion this year, up from $10,52-billion in 2016 and $9,95-billion in 2015. This includes tags, readers and software/services for RFID labels, cards, fobs and other form factors, for passive and active RFID, according to a...

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