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Volvo EX30: small car, big dreams

The Volvo EX30 is Volvo’s smallest, fastest, and least expensive EV.

Nafisa Akabor

The new, polarised, world order

What will be the long-term implications of the US trying to hobble China’s access to advanced technologies?

How to drive digitalisation in oil, gas and mining

The oil, gas and mining industries must find smart routes to digitalisation. Technology is under pressure to deliver results for companies that allow them to see rapid results in productivity, operations, health, safety and sustainability.

Roundtable

Make your own AI

No coding experience? No data scientists? No problem.

Innovation

James Francis

What’s in a name?

Who can we blame for AI’s dumb moniker?

Kate Thompson Davy

What kind of employee are you?

New study sheds light on what employers and workers really want.

Adam Oxford

Trust me, I’m a deepfake

GenAI presents a threat and an opportunity to cyber teams. What has been the experience of South African security personnel?

Roundtables

Give them circuses

“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.” Juvenal

Bronwyn Williams

The rise of cosy games

Popular video games aren’t only about sports, or surviving the apocalypse. Sometimes they’re cute, wholesome, cosy.

Innovation

The whispers are true

It’s been a long road, but transcription software is finally showing some promise.

Innovation

Kate Thompson Davy

Don’t drop it, box it

Is Dropbox still a solid solution for the organisation?

The value of digital within ecommerce

The ecommerce sector in South Africa is discovering new ground and exploring new ways of capturing customers and market share. As competition increases, so does the need for companies within this sector to find technologies and solutions that give them a competitive edge.

Roundtable

The ‘please be good news’ edition

Want a way of managing skills development for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Done! Fancy an aquaponics company that transforms the environment? Sorted!

REINVENTION 2.0

At Accenture, ‘it’s not just about nice slides’, says the company’s CEO, Vukani Mngxati.

Lesley Stones

Why lift-and-shift doesn’t work

With cloud, it’s a mixed picture in South Africa. Some enterprises are well on their way, while others still appear to have prosaic concerns.

Roundtable

The AI-fuelled data tsunami

The datacentre boom is just getting started, and will be supercharged by AI.

The Gen AI MBA

It's time for universities to not just embrace the AI revolution, but lead it.

How Nutanix is profiting from VMware sale

Nutanix has finally turned a profit and says it’s seeing much activity in its pipeline, following the sale of VMware to Broadcom.

Verticals

Shall we play a game?

What does it take to turn an organisation’s biggest cybersecurity vulnerability, its employees, into an engaged, proactive human firewall?

The VR revolution, one inch at a time

Our dazzling dreams of VR hold the tech back.

James Francis

Measuring carbon, from the top-down

Making sense of carbon emissions, offsets and markets using geospatial analytics.

The sovereignty balance

What does sovereignty mean for the business and why planning ahead is better than being caught unawares.

How to move a bank to the cloud in 43 days

A swift AWS cloud migration managed to outmanoeuvre Russia’s war on Ukraine, saving the biggest national bank from collapse.

Our beautiful, stupid, AI

Fixing society is harder than tweaking a few lines of code.

Alistair Fairweather

Cloud adoption in an AI world

Synthesis Software Technologies' Spagnoletti describes the shift he is seeing as local cloud adoption matures, and value goes beyond cost and scalability.

The business case for telco modernisation

If modernisation was easy, every telco would have done it by now. Here’s what local telcos are doing to find a balance between the old and the new.

Joanne Carew

Brave new hybrid work world

With hybrid work arrangements growing in popularity, what tools, technologies and policies are needed to ensure that remote and in-office teams can work together seamlessly?