Underfunding a leading cause of AI failures for SA firms

South African organisations whose AI ambitions outrun their budgets are seven times more likely to say AI has fallen short, according to preliminary results from DayOne’s State of AI Delivery in South Africa survey. Of the more than 170 employees, founders, managers...

Revenue to hit $1bn as quantum breakthroughs advance

Worldwide, quantum computing revenue is projected to total $1,1-billion in 2027, according to Gartner. “Nations and businesses have scaled spending in quantum literacy, patents, partnerships, and early use-case exploration,” says Gaurav Gupta, vice-president analyst...

Fuel price shock will hit supply chains hard, driving prices up

South Africa’s latest fuel price increase will put fresh pressure on already strained supply chains, says supply chain industry body SAPICS. The organisation warns that the cost impact is likely to extend far beyond the transport sector and into consumers’ pockets at...

SA must put jobs at the centre of its AI future

South Africans are embracing AI, but turning that appetite into economic opportunity will require trained educators, reliable Internet, affordable access, recognised skills pathways, scaling of existing financing models, and investment in the country’s own languages,...

SAIGA hopes more skilled councillors will be elected

The Southern African Institute of Government Auditors (SAIGA) says most of the South African political party councillor candidates who are standing for the upcoming local government elections do not have the skills to deliver sound budgets. But the organisation...

Trickbot banking Trojan evolves with 61 new techniques

Discovered in 2016, Trickbot's main functionality was online banking data theft. Over its five years of activity, Trickbot banking Trojan has changed as attackers came up with a more advanced toolset. Kaspersky researchers have traced Trickbot's evolution by analysing...

Curiosity snaps Mars vistas

The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new colour images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the "Murray Buttes" region of lower Mount Sharp. Curiosity took the images with its Mast Camera (Mastcam) on 8...

NASA heads for Bennu asteroid

An Atlas V rocket traced a blazing arc into the Florida sky yesterday evening (8 September) to send a small robotic explorer on its way to an asteroid on a mission that scientists anticipate will reveal answers to some of the basic questions about the solar system....

McAfee surfaces once again

McAfee, the security company that was bought by Intel and rolled into Intel Security over three years ago, has been spun out again and renamed McAfee. The move is the result of an agreement between Intel and TPG, under which the two parties will establish a new,...

Update network access to secure IoT devices

By 2020, 21-billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be in use worldwide. Of these, close to 6%will be in use for industrial IoT applications. However, IT organizsations have issues identifying these devices and characterising them as part of current network...

SMMEs wanted to sell high-tech fabric

The Innovation Hub's OpenIX has launched a challenge with Gelvenor Textiles, a South African fabric engineering company, to identify innovative entrepreneurs for joint product and market development. The challenge calls on SMMEs and research groups, preferably based...

Study surprises with giraffe revelations

Wildlife charity Born Free Foundation has welcomed the findings of new genetic analysis published in the journal "Current Biology" that has unexpectedly found giraffes are not one species, but four. The collaborative research team - supported by the State of Hesse's...

Apple bets on iPhone 7, watch for growth

Apple needs the iPhone 7 to be a major success because it is the main driver of growth for the whole company. According to a study by Ian Fogg, head of mobile analysis at IHS Technology, direct revenues for the iPhone represented 57% of total Apple revenue in the...

Civil society objects to Eskom stance

A group of 30 civil society organisations have written an open letter to the Ministers of Public Enterprises, Energy, Environmental Affairs, and Health, expressing their alarm at recent statements and actions by Eskom management. This relates particularly to Eskom's...

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