It is the stuff of science-fiction – implants for the human body, matching a recipient’s dimensions exactly and printed from titanium powder, much like the way an inkjet printer reels off a document. This is the world that 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is making possible – and it is no
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The Web, with all its hazards, is the new playground for children, a Google SA official said on Wednesday. “Like in any playground, you don’t abandon your children, but supervise and check how they are playing there,” the search engine’s public manager, Fortune Sibanda, told a conference on child abuse in
Imagine a computer with 23TB of RAM and 2 800 processor cores, generating 60 trillion floating-point operations per second. That’s what Dell, the CSIR, the Centre for High Performance Computing and the University of Cambridge have built in Cape Town. It’s being billed as the fastest supercomputer
Mike Lawrie lives in a pleasant, suburban retirement village outside Pretoria. When he isn’t tending to his collection of succulents, or travelling with his wife, Lawrie keeps track of and contributes to various online forums and mailing lists. What few