Graduate unemployment in South Africa has risen to 12.2%. The problem is a skills mismatch, not qualifications.
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South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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Donald Trump ally Elon Musk has said that white South Africans have been the victims of “racist ownership laws”.
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday outlined a plan by home affairs to roll out digital IDs.
Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” era is well and truly dead.
Thursday’s state of the nation speech had more references to technology than any other Sona speech before it.
Wall Street is buying what CEO Mark Zuckerberg is selling. There are reasons for this optimism – and reasons to question it.
Amazon.com, Google, Meta Platforms and Microsoft are embarking on an unprecedented year of spending.
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Cryptocurrency ether leapt more than 5% in early Asia trade on Friday as traders breathed a sigh of relief that a software upgrade this week ran relatively smoothly.
The software that underpins the second biggest crypto coin, ether, was upgraded successfully.
In a significant turn of events, Intel is working with ARM to potentially use that company’s technology in its factories.
Twitter now has about 1 500 employees, a sharp decline from the “just under 8 000 staff members” it had before he took it over.
The role of public research institutions like science councils in national innovation systems has been diminishing in most developed countries.
Data science is experiencing significant growth. It is imperative that universities train graduates who can work in this expanding field.
