Ease of access to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) platforms is making it easier than ever for brands to gain an exponentially greater understanding of the needs, wants and behaviours of their customers – giving them unprecedented insight into just what makes the users of their products or services, tick. These technologies are even more useful when optimising […]
A background in accounting and an aptitude for systems have placed Adrian van der Merwe and his company, North Wind Digital, at forefront of shaping the finance function of the future. As society and industry try to come to grips with the ramifications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), van der Merwe, CTO Grant Hesse and their team have combined […]
While the phrase ‘Artificial Intelligence’ has become a 21st century technological buzz-term, it was first coined by scientists at a conference at Dartmouth in 1956 when they arranged a workshop to bring luminaries in the fields of cybernetics, mathematics, formal reasoning and other related fields of academia together to explore problem solving. Marais Neethling, Head of Artificial Intelligence at leading […]
“I’ve come to detest the word ‘innovation’ because people throw it around without knowing what it really means,” says Singularity University Founding Executive Director Salim Ismail. “Anything really innovative is really disruptive. If its’ not, it’s incremental – that’s just improvement. Disruption radically changes the game”. Disruption is something Ismail has a deep knowledge of, as Singularity University was established […]
The atmosphere amongst the twenty thousand fans crammed into the arena crackles with an electric charge. Many of them, wearing the colours of their favoured team, have travelled thousands of kilometres for the opportunity to witness the epic match. Statistics about their teams’ matches on the road to this point are exchanged, praised and picked apart by fans in the […]
When IBM’s Deep Blue won its match against chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, it became the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion in a match under standard chess tournament time controls. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating (he’d won the original match, a year earlier, 4-2) and demanded a rematch, but IBM declined and retired Deep […]
Sightings of meerkats in the Northern Cape aren’t uncommon. Standing upright on their hind legs, twitching their noses in the air, meerkats keep a close eye on everything that surrounds them – their long, horizontal pupils give them a wide range of visions without forcing them to swivel their heads and their excellent eyesight allows them to spot danger more […]
wiGroup is making it easier and safer for people to make cashless purchases, using their mobile phones. CEO Bevan Ducasse is driving SA’s mobile money revolution. The gap between Bevan Ducasse completing his Financial Analysis studies at Stellenbosch University, venturing into the corporate world – and stepping away from it to start the country’s most successful mobile payment aggregator – […]
As a child of the 90’s, you’ll hear the word ‘hacker’ and remember Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie doing fascinating things to corporate networks using only floppy disks, dial-up modems and terrible aliases. The film glamorised an underground movement and captured the possibilities delivered by the burgeoning internet phenomenon, positioning hackers as keyboard crusaders with a cause. Fast-forward nearly […]
Sports fans take for granted the opportunity to watch their favourite team playing on the opposite side of the planet, from the comfort of their lounge. Feet up, replica kit on and braai stoked in the background, very little thought is paid to the technology behind bringing you a live Super Rugby match in HD, from a venue almost 12 […]
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