Should I buy an SSD or HDD
I recently heard a very cool IT joke. It goes like this: Question: What is the difference between a used car salesperson and a computer/IT sales person? Answer: The used…
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Understanding Major Digital Disruption
Understanding major digital disruption and managing the changes caused by digital transformation starts by "following the money". This guide is a series of posts to assist businesses to understand and…
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Cybertools
Does your cybertools control you or do you control your cybertools? It is an interesting question and you will probably be surprised at the answer. The answer is that the…
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South African Government Hacked
Multiple confirmed reports of scams and criminal activity originating from the Department of Justice has been received, verified and confirmed. More technical information below this report. Recipients received the following…
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Molecular neuromorphic computing device discovered
Reservoir computing devices are predicted as the next-generation artificial intelligence. Scientists developing neuromorphic chips (silicon based chips that mimic brain structure) has, up to now, not been able to replicate…
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More bad news for users as yet another Intel CPU Security issue is exposed
After Spectre and the Spectre NG (Next generation Spectre), where exploits saw passwords and other data leaked from memory, one would have mistakenly thought that NG would have been the…
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PC Shipments Grew For the First Time in Six Years
In US News, the research and consulting vendor, Gartner published the numbers of US PC shipments, by vendor for the second quarter of 2018. Quoted from the release: "Worldwide PC…
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SDA New Specification 985MB/sec up to 128TB SD Cards possible
The SD Association has released SD Express specification, which they call "a Revolutionary Innovation for SD Memory Cards" From the press release: "The PCle interface delivering a 985 megabytes per…
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Wikipedia hosts annual conference in South Africa 18-22 of July 2018
For the first time ever, Wikipedia will host their annual conference in the Global South this year (broadly representing Africa, Asia and Latin America), as it examines how to improve…
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Microsoft to buy GitHub
Bloomberg reported that Microsoft has concluded a deal to purchase GitHub. GitHub is an open source code repository website and system and is valued at several billion dollars, even though…
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