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Remote monitoring of patients on the rise … and rising
The number of remotely monitored patients reached 76.7-million worldwide in 2023 as the market acceptance of mHealth continues to grow in several key verticals, according to new findings from Berg Insight. The IoT market research provider says this number includes all...
Speech AI model helps preserve indigenous languages
Indigenous languages are under threat. Some 3 000 - three-quarters of the total - could disappear before the end of the century. That's one every two weeks, according to UNESCO. As part of a movement to protect such languages, New Zealand's Te Hiku Media, a...
European BDA software market continues to grow
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Waste supercomputer heat, old mines could warm homes
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Samsung, Google Cloud join force to bring GenAI to Galaxy S24
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World Economic Forum in Davos: it’s a wrap
Amid rising geopolitical tensions, close to 3 000 policy-makers, business executives, international organisations and civil society leaders, academics and innovators from around the world came together for the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum to rebuild...
Webb reveals what early galaxies looked like
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Meteoric growth forecast for metaverse in e-commerce market
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Unauthorised IT products increase risk of cyberattacks
A new study has found that companies are at an increased risk of becoming targets of cyber incidents due to the use of shadow IT by their employees amid the growing trend towards a distributed workforce. According to global research by Kaspersky, 82% of companies...
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LGBTQ+ inclusion will build better companies and societies
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Commvault is HPE’s GreenLake Momentum Partner of the Year
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Big data analytics set to benefit manufacturing
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Shift to solutionist thinking for people-centric cloud solutions
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Insights into cloud security 2021
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IntroductionTo provide and enforce organizational data standards, common vocabulary, reports, and the development and use of standardized data. By Developing/Managing rules in SAP Information Steward system.Duties & ResponsibilitiesEnsure business data definitions...
Intermediate DevOps Engineer (Remote) – Western Cape Westlake
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Front End Developer at ALJ recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg Region
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