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...

Gloomy outlook for global economies as geopolitical tensions worsen

Coface’s latest risk review, Rates Against the Machine, has confirmed what the world dreaded just a few months ago has come to pass – rather than improve, the geopolitical situation has deteriorated once again. This, Coface says, puts upward pressure on commodity...

Banks are still missing the links between fraud and money laundering

Financial institutions are increasingly integrating their fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) systems, but intelligence and governance gaps remain. New fraud and AML convergence research from Datos Insights, commissioned by data and AI leader SAS, finds 86% report...

EOH responds to SIU statement

Following reports that EOH will pay back millions relating to the Department of Defence (DoD) contract, the company has issued the following statement: EOH wishes to provide clarity on the events that led up to the signature of the Acknowledgement of Debt (AoD), which...

BITF confirms where ICT skills are scarce

The South African ICT sector is experiencing skills shortages in 25 job categories, although a number of graduates holding these skills are still unemployed. These are among the findings of the ICT Sector Survey 2021 report, compiled by Black IT Forum (BITF) deputy...

Carriers set to spend $5,7bn on SDN by 2019

As service providers seek service agility and operational efficiency in their networks to stay competitive, the global market for carrier software-defined networking (SDN) software, hardware and services is expected to grow from $103-million in 2014 to $5,7-billion in...

Sweden drops some charges against Assange

Some of the Swedish sexual assault charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange have been dropped, having reached their five-year statute of limitations. A rape charge remains in the books, although Swedish prosecutors yesterday dropped charges for sexual assault...

Amazon opens Joburg office, adds skills

Amazon is expanding its services in South Africa, opening a new office in Johannesburg and planning to hire 250 new skilled staff over the next 12 months. The new Amazon Web Services Office in Johannesburg complements the existing development centre in Cape Town, which has been operational since 2004. The company already supports a number of South African customers of all sizes, from start-ups to enterprises and public sector operations.

Hope glimmers for SA economy

South Africa may be suffering currently, but glimmers of hope are starting to emerge that undermine the more negative perceptions plaguing the local economy. This is according to Johann Els, senior economist for Old Mutual Investment Group, explaining in the company’s quarterly investment briefing that, while local growth is struggling under the burden of issues, such as electricity shortages, commodities under pressure and a weak rand, positive signs, such as an improving trade deficit and inflation figures, could be slightly buoying the economic outlook.

Ripple well-placed for global adoption

Ripple, a new payments system that has grown out of Bitcoin, could become a new standard for international payments. An IDC Financial Insights study builds on recent IDC analysis of the Bitcoin ecosystem by considering the potential of Ripple, an offshoot of Bitcoin which purports to be an open source, realtime payment settlement infrastructure, and the impact it could have on the financial services industry.

Twitter relaxes 140-character limitation

Twitter has removed the 140-character limitation from Direct Messages. Tweets still have to be 140 characters or less, but the private side of the popular messaging service can now be longer. Sending and receiving Direct Messages sent via SMS will still be limited....

HST lands Tanzanian lab contract

Health Systems Technologies (HST), a subsidiary of African Equity Empowerment Investments Limited (AEEI), has secured a contract with the Tanzanian Ministry of Health to implement Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). HST, a leading provider of integrated...

Chinese cloud providers in global expansion

The Alibaba Group is to make an additional investment of $1-billion into Aliyun, its cloud computing unit. The capital will be used to expand Aliyun’s international presence and support infrastructures, in addition to R&D in cloud computing, big data, and the...

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DATA ANALYST – Gauteng Johannesburg

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