March was a busy month across Africa’s tech space. 500 Startups’ frontier and emerging markets travel series ― Geeks on a Plane ― kicked off its first Africa tour. The 12-day trek packed in events, a startup pitch battle, and visits to tech hubs in Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa. Talking to TechCrunch about the trip, [...]
Google is launching a new site today that brings all of the company’s open source projects under a single umbrella. The code of these projects will still live on GitHub and Google’s self-hosted git service, of course, with the new site functioning as a central directory for them. While this new project is obviously meant [...]
Master Data Management's enterprise information management education partner, eLearningCurve.com, has launched a new Data Mining Concepts and Techniques course with the aim to extend its business intelligence curriculum. Data mining is not a new discipline; however, it is growing in relevance as a key capability for data scientists grappling with the new data [...]
The Alienware 15 R3 (starts at $1,224.99; $2,424.99 as tested) is a new take on the 15-inch gaming laptop we rated highly back in 2015, with a few design and component upgrades that offer cutting-edge performance. The new model we're testing here is a much higher-end configuration than the $1,499.99 unit we reviewed two years [...]
Google, which has accused Symantec and its partners of misissuing tens of thousands of certificates for encrypted web connections, quietly announced Thursday that it’s downgrading the level and length of trust Chrome will place in certificates issued by Symantec. Encrypted web connections — HTTPS connections like those on banking sites, login pages or news sites like [...]
We finally have a peek at the smartphone that Android co-founder Andy Rubin and his team have been building. Today, Rubin tweeted out a teaser photo of the yet-to-be-named device emerging from his stealth startup. The company, reportedly named Essential, is said to be focusing its engineering efforts on high-end devices that it has reportedly raised a significant [...]
Machine learning as a subset of artificial intelligence is an emerging trend in South Africa, with demand for data scientists rising sharply and university programmes incorporating the discipline in study programmes. However, still a long way behind international counterparts, South African machine learning trends for 2017 place focus on our unique and emerging market. [...]
According to recent international research, nearly 70% of retail decision makers are ready to make changes to adopt the Internet of Things (IoT) and 65% plan to invest in automation technologies for inventory management and planogram (visual representations of a store's products or services) compliance by 2021. Zebra Technologies Corporation revealed the results of the [...]
Smartphones are more capable than ever before, and are evolving into a single device which can be used for almost all tasks. Some activities are still easier to complete using a desktop, though, due to the larger screen size and stand-alone peripherals. Samsung recently unveiled its DeX docking station, which allows Galaxy S8 owners to turn their [...]
The potential tie-up of Cell C and Telkom could boost the government's plans to increase connectivity to all citizens, analysts said on Wednesday. It emerged this week that Telkom might make another bid for Cell C, which was downgraded in January by ratings agency Standard & Poor's for missing payments to creditors. Cell C is [...]
