Browsing: Nasa

SKA will probe universe’s secrets

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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is unlikely to win a Nobel prize, but will give deeper understanding to phenomena such as dark matter and how the universe started. Vishnu Vejjala, research chair in theoretical particle cosmology at the University of the Witwatersrand, said the US$2bn SKA

Start-up Snapt: making money from open source

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Johannesburg-based open-source software start-up Snapt < http://www.snapt-ui.com/> launched only in August 2011 but already it’s drawing interest from top drawer customers, mainly international clients, including the US National Aeronautics & Space Administration (Nasa). The company uses open-source software

ZA Tech Show: Episode 83

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Simon Dingle is out this week, so Jon Tullett hosts episode 83 of SA’s most popular technology podcast. He is joined in the studio by Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard and Toby Shapshak. They discuss, among other things, First National Bank’s Internet banking outage