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by Vikram Haksar and Emanuel Kopp Money has been around for a long time. And we have always paid for…

The global drive towards digital transformation is having a profoundly disruptive impact on all areas of our lives but will…

by Jonty Leon South Africa Bleeding Skills Not surprisingly, there has been an outflow of South Africans in recent years…

by Elizabeth Stoycheff You might have fallen for someone’s attempt to disinform you about current events. But it’s not your…

by Andries du Toit Small informal retailers are ubiquitous feature of any developing country urban landscape. Known as spaza shops…

Technology and internet (tech) stocks now account for around 30% of US stock market value and 20% of global stock…

Despite the various economic and structural challenges that South Africa currently faces, there are many market opportunities and reasons to…

by Baohua Jia Every age in the history of human civilisation has a signature material, from the Stone Age, to…

by Chuka Onwumechili FIFA has ended its 6-month management takeover of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). But the future…

SARS recently announced it had embarked on a journey of digital transformation that will see its operations “informed by data-driven…

by Christopher Findlay Productivity growth matters. In advanced economies over the past 15 years it has fallen by half. Which…

by Vanessa Dennen Editor’s Note: When U.S. News & World Report released its best online education program rankings this year,…

This post is part of “AI education”, a series of posts that review and explore educational content on data science and…

by MJ (Thinus) Booysen South Africa’s energy crisis has many dimensions, from political and economic to technical and environmental. Recently,…

The MarTech gold-rush promises to deliver predictable success. Consolidating multiple data sources has the potential to provide one view of…

As we embark on a new year many of us will be looking to launch new business endeavours. But the…

So how can we adequately prepare tomorrow’s workforce at the same time as retraining the hundreds of millions of people whose work is evolving?

Not bot, not beast: scientists create first ever living, programmable organism.

by Prabashni Naidoo Autonomous, or self-driving cars will make driving safer, smarter and more efficient. Equipped with internet connections, often…

by Richard Holden There has already been a fair number of jobs lost to automation over recent decades – from…

by Christian Borch In 2019, the world fretted that algorithms now know us better than we know ourselves. No concept…

Most of us spend hours each day glued to some type of screen for work or play. But is that a bad thing? Has anyone got the data to figure it out? Now is the time for ‘The Human Screenome Project.’

Traditional companies need to embrace high-quality data gathering to avoid being left behind by the next industrial revolution.

Since the advent of electronic commerce (otherwise referred to as e-commerce) in Nigeria in 2012, one can safely say that…

FinTech is rapidly transforming the very essence of global financial services. Here at AlphaCode, we spend a lot of time…