The 18th of April 1930 (Good Friday, as it happened) is a day that will forever live in infamy at the BBC. The evening news bulletin on BBC Radio that day was short, succinct and typically Anglo-centric: ...
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I’ve always been unconvinced when it comes to the recent proliferation of so-called ‘maker’ development boards – platforms like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Beagle Board and so on. One of the reasons I’m not ...
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IBM scientists have built a quantum processor that can be accessed through the cloud by literally anyone with Internet access, and allows users to run algorithms and experiments by working with the individual qubits.
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What made this interview truly unique and exciting was the opportunity to shoot the breeze with one of the few people alive who worked on Apollo 11.
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I first learned (as I suspect most of us did) of Thomas Edison at some now-indeterminate stage of my school career. He is, of course, the father of the incandescent light bulb – one of more than 1000 ...
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Set-top boxes for South Africa’s long awaited migration from analog to digital terrestrial television broadcasts are finally rolling off production lines.
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Four leading manufacturers share their thoughts on the state of the South African security industry, and speak about some of their recent and imminent developments.
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The world of technology is abuzz nowadays with talk of the so-called Internet of Things, or IoT. Indeed, one can find the phrase sprinkled liberally across the pages of this very publication. Yup, the ...
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When we at Dataweek published our first EMP Handbook last year, we had every intention of making it an annual publication. Although we were confident that we’d put together a quality resource of value ...
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Virtual reality (VR) looks set to become the next big thing in electronic entertainment, with the likes of Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, HTC and others poised to launch consumer products around the end of ...
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October has long held a special place in the hearts of South African university students, despite the fact it marks a ramp-up in workload ahead of final exams.
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Eager to spur foreign investment and ensure gainful employment for his subjects, the king bade his advisors offer tax cuts as an enticement for rich and powerful mega-corporations to settle in his kingdom.
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