by Kathy Gibson | Jul 17, 2020 | Features
By Kathy Gibson – The world of money and finance has changed rapidly with the spread of the novel coronavirus. Liao Yong, vice president of Huawei Southern Africa Region, told delegates to the Huawei Sub-Saharan Africa Financial Services Industry Online Summit...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 17, 2020 | Features
Enabling medical equipment to accurately record the time of diagnostic readings, making it easier to locate connected devices and speeding up the time it takes to develop new apps are just some of the new features to be unveiled as part of the fourth set of...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 17, 2020 | Features
Artificial intelligence (AI) will separate winning banks from losers, say 77% of banking executives surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic. They believe Covid-19 will intensify the use of AI, making effective governance more urgent, according to an Economist...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 17, 2020 | Featured Story, Features
The BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index (BETI) for June 2020 showed the biggest one-month bounce-back on record, providing the first strongest indication of an economic recovery since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown. However, the organisation cautions that...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 17, 2020 | Features
Researchers at the University of Regensburg in Germany are extending their exploration of the origins of the universe boosted by a new Fujitsu supercomputer, the PrimeHPC FX700 underpinned by the new Arm-based Fujitsu A64FX processor. The university’s QPace4 (QCD...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2020 | Features
By Kathy Gibson – As the world of work undergoes fundamental shifts, we are starting to realise that it’s not necessary for a worker to perform every process – at any rate, not a human worker. The idea that computers are just as capable of performing certain...