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Hubs dot Ng launches Emily, an AI assistant
Winner of the 2018 digital face-off by digital Africa: hubs dot Ng, has announced that they have released their in-app assistant; Emily. Emily is an artificial intelligence assistant integrated with the new hubs dot Ng app. Emily delivers a friendly…
South African Youth Accelerator recognised for use of big data to solve youth unemployment
On Wednesday, 25 July 2018, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator was one of only two organisations featured on stage at the Google NEXT 2018 conference in Silicon Valley. Launching Data Solutions for Change, Google highlighted Harambee’s use of big data solutions…
Harnessing AI to transform customer experience in telecoms
Telecommunications operators are generally very large enterprises, serving millions of retail consumers and thousands of enterprise / corporate clients. The sheer size of the customer base can make it very difficult to provide exceptional customer experiences for every individual. Telco’s…
Calisto variant has reemerged to threaten Mac users with backdoor access
Trojan malware is among today’s most frequently deployed cyber threats, with two of the latest variants, Quasar and Sobaken being used primarily for government and corporate espionage. Additionally, Vermin, an open-source, Remote Access Trojan or RAT has been targeting victims…
Zephyr S set to break aircraft world endurance record
Zephyr S, Airbus’ High-Altitude-Pseudo-Satellite, has surpassed the current flight endurance record of an aircraft without refueling of 14 days, 22 minutes and 8 seconds and continues to pioneer the stratosphere. The Zephyr aircraft departed for its maiden flight from Arizona,…
United States to improve water security for river basin communities
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced Resilient Waters, a five-year, $32.4 million project to address severe water challenges facing the Limpopo River Basin and Okavango River Basin communities. Resilient Waters will increase access to safe drinking water…
The evolution of the claims handling process: From paper to proactive real-time systems
Technology has come a long way in terms of the efficiency in handling healthcare claims since the early 1990s. Through the development of specific coding systems and ever more advanced rules engines and algorithms, artificial intelligence and human clinical expertise…
South African startup uses AI to help farmers
South African startup, Aerobotics, recently announced that they successfully closed its Series A funding round with a raise of approximately $2 million. The data analytics company uses aerial imagery and machine learning algorithms to optimise crop performance for farmers around…
A view of security from the front line
Balancing resources as security challenges rise is a major strategic problem for today’s business leaders. The list of brands whose credibility and finances have been damaged by cyber-attacks is unprecedented, and alarm bells are understandably going off across the board.…
SUSE appoints Grant Bennett as Country Manager for South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa
Grant Bennett has been appointed as Country Manager for SUSE South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. The appointment, effective from July, will see Grant continue to support and grow strong market alignment for SUSE’s brand locally. Grant takes over from Matthew…
Mobility could be the best thing your business does this year
There are few things worse than spending hours of your day staring blankly at the stationary car in front of you as you wilt away in rush hour traffic. When you start to do the calculation of just how many…
Video gaming is a million dollar industry in South Africa
Over a third of South African gamers consider themselves as mainstream, but roughly the same number play games daily and a fifth of them play for between 6 and 10 hours. Where do they find the time? Many of the…
Advanced Electronic Signatures are legally recognised says Etion CSO Maeson Maherry
For all that we live in a digital, paperless world, signing up customers, employees and suppliers is still a paper-heavy process in many businesses. Paper-heavy means inefficient, slow, prone to errors and, most pertinently in the current economic climate, expensive.…
IoT will not reach full potential without consideration of maintenance and business insight
For some time now we’ve been looking forward to the promise that the Internet of Things (IoT) will revolutionise the way we do business. With connected devices increasingly ubiquitous, that may well be the case. But without maintenance and a…
Europe and Commonwealth collaborate to bring digital health on international scale
The European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance) and the Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health (CWCDH) announce a strategic partnership to accelerate and drive the international deployment of digital health at scale, facilitate greater collaboration for international digital health projects and create…
5 ways to transform your home storage and backups
NAS stands for network-attached storage. Sounds complicated and technical and only for hardcore technology fundi’s right? Wrong. NAS happens to be a clever, easy and brilliant way to build a home server that allows you to change the way you…
