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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…

Nearly a billion people affected by hunger and malnutrition ought to have access to nutritious food as a basic human…

by David Richard Walwyn and Rod Crompton South Africa needs to seriously start thinking about shifting its energy focus. This…

Consumers expect an array of beneficial services from connected technology interacting with our senses of sight, sound, taste, smell and…

by Christoffer Heckman In its annual report, the AI Now Institute, an interdisciplinary research centre studying the societal implications of…

Luno, South Africa’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, expects to see greater adoption of Bitcoin and altcoins in 2020, continuing the momentum…

by Ola Källenius “Where do we take it from here?” I guess that’s the core question of every CES. And…

by Mauro Vallati Will artificial intelligence one day surpass human thinking? The rapid progress of AI, coupled with our standard…