There is a common perception that engineers are all purely analytical creatures without a sense of creativity. In truth, I think this boils down to a general tendency to conflate the ideas of ‘creativity’ ...
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I’m sure we’ve all experienced that feeling when something causes you to question the meaning of a commonly used word or phrase you’ve always taken for granted. The most recently this happened to me was ...
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After a messy divorce presided over by former president Jacob Zuma in 2014, the departments of telecommunications and postal services (DTPS) and communications (DOC) are set to re-tie the knot this year. ...
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It’s certainly never a good strategy in business to work dumb, but the word ‘smart’ is applied to so many technologies nowadays and has become so nebulous that it can take on different meanings in different ...
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The rise of the so-called ‘gig economy’ – a labour market characterised by freelance work and short-term contracts – in combination with peer-to-peer and managed marketplaces, has had a profound impact ...
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This year, employees at Google have very publicly protested against the company’s involvement in projects they are concerned about. The first protest was over Project Maven, a programme developed for ...
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With South Africa celebrating Women’s Day on 9 August, and in fact the entire month as Women’s Month, I would like to take this opportunity to honour some of history’s most famous female engineers and ...
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It is strange how sometimes, after first noticing something you hadn’t noticed before, it seems to pop up all over the place. It has been dubbed the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, and it’s not so much a case ...
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After a severe downturn triggered by the global economic collapse a few years ago, the electronics industry has recovered to reach all-time highs. DMASS reported record European semiconductor sales figures ...
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Readers of Dataweek are being offered the chance to win one of Microchip Technology’s MPLAB PICkit 4 in-circuit debuggers. The tool allows fast and easy debugging and programming of PIC and dsPIC Flash ...
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It is a morbid but inescapable fact that, throughout recorded history, one of the strongest forces driving technological change is warfare. Famous names from the past, like Leonardo da Vinci, earned a ...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is working its way deeper into more and more aspects of our daily lives. The newest generation of smartphones are coming out with specialised processors dedicated to performing ...
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