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...

Digital transformation delivers significant benefits

Digital transformation (DX) is not just a buzzword in the finance industry - it is delivering significant revenue increases, improvements in cyber security and customer relationships, and delivery of purpose-driven sustainable business initiatives. These are among the...

Hubble snaps a starburst galaxy 52m light years away

The luminous heart of the galaxy M61 dominates an image sent back by the Hubble telescope, framed by its winding spiral arms threaded with dark tendrils of dust. As well as the usual bright bands of stars, the spiral arms of M61 are studded with ruby-red patches of...

Wearables key to m-health initiatives

Wearable devices are expected to represent the next wave of m-health solutions and will potentially act as the gateway to the connected health world. The number of sensors and wearable devices that will be shipped globally will increase drastically over the next three to four years, reaching a market value of almost $40-billion by 2018. Frost & Sullivan will present some of the key requirements in the establishment of a connected healthcare ecosystem at the 5th annual Growth Innovation Leadership (GIL) 2015: Africa Congress in Cape Town on 20 August.

Cloud services drive Microsoft revenues

Microsoft has reported revenues for the quarter ended 30 June 2015 of $22,2-billion. Gross margin, operating loss, and loss per share for the quarter were $14,7-billion, $2,1-billion, and $0.40 per share, respectively. These results include the impact of a...

Apple posts record sales, but disappoints

Apple posted quarterly revenue of $49,6-billion and quarterly net profit of $10,7-billion, or $1.85 per diluted share for its fiscal 2015 third quarter ended 27 June 2015. These results compare to revenue of $37,4-billion and net profit of $7,7-billion, or $1.28 per...

5G will drive autonomous vehicles

The world will soon see 5G emerge as a blend of pre-existing technologies such as 2G, 3G, 4G and WiFi to allow higher network coverage, availability and density. With its key differentiator being greater connectivity, 5G will act as an enabler for autonomous vehicles, machine-to-machine and machine-to-infrastructure services, and the Internet of Things. It will also penetrate the over-the-air (OTA) updates space as level 3 or level 4 automation requires a massive amount of data processing to occur in realtime.

Hunt is on for African Einsteins

The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) has launched the search for 54 of Africa's top young science and technology ambassadors, one from each African country. The selected NEF Ambassadors will join the NEF Fellows Class as young science and technology champions from Africa....

Barclays’ Tech Lab aims to spur innovation

Barclays Africa has launched Tech Lab Africa, a venture programme which promises to change the future of 10 innovative African enterprises. The world of financial services and digital health and wellness is being disrupted by new technologies, agile companies and...

New maths initiative for African students

The University of Chicago and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) has announced a new partnership to educate and train talented African students at AIMS centres across Africa.Thierry Zomahoun, president and CEO of AIMS and Eric Isaacs, provost of...

NEC buys into SA’s XON

NEC Europe has invested in local company XON, in order to leverage the expertise in the region to provide greater sales coverage in the sub-Sahara African market – and accelerate regional growth for both companies in the telecoms, government, enterprise and energy sectors. The two companies have explored joint sub-Sahara Africa business opportunities for the past 18 months and identified many areas of collaboration.

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