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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…

by William Clark Come January, 40% of Americans will make New Years resolutions, and nearly half of them will aim…

by Emma Sheppard-Simms In Australia, interment in a cemetery or a churchyard has been the most common choices for in-ground…

by Brian Harman and Janine Bosak We are creatures of habit. Between a third and half of our behaviour is…

by Sara Jo Nixon It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when holiday parties collide with collegiate and professional…

by Ken Rotenberg When Dame Helen Mirren revealed she had been the victim of a “humiliating” scam on the press…

BMW i3 has undergone a complete transformation (with only the driver’s seat and dashboard left untouched) so that its interior…

While it may feel to you like barcodes have been ruling the retail world forever, in reality, barcodes didn’t actually…

by Clement Prince Addo All over the world, the internet has provided extraordinary socioeconomic opportunities to businesses, governments, and individuals.…

Huawei South Africa has hosted its second Information and Communication Technology (ICT) job fair for Huawei ICT academy graduates, simultaneously…