Check Point’s April 2025 Threat Index Identifies ‘Most Wanted Malware’
FakeUpdates remains the most prevalent malware this month, impacting 6% of organizations globally, followed closely by Remcos and AgentTesla. Check Point Software Technologies, an AI-powered, cloud-delivered cybersecurity platform provider, has published its Global Threat Index for April 2025, highlighting that 8 African countries are among the top 20 countries most
Read MoreGM taps Aurora co-founder for new chief product officer role
General Motors has turned to Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry, to oversee its entire product line of gas-powered and electric vehicles, in a newly created job that will touch nearly every department at the U.S. automaker. The new VP of global product and chief product officer
Read MoreGoogle’s Gemma AI models surpass 150M downloads
Google’s openly available Gemma collection of AI models has reached a milestone: over 150 million downloads. Omar Sanseviero, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind, announced the figure on X over the weekend, also revealing that developers have created more than 70,000 variants of Gemma on the AI dev platform
Read MoreInventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel
The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.
Read MoreGoogle Introduces AI Max for Search Campaigns in Africa
Google has launched a global beta of AI Max for Search Campaigns, an upgrade to its Search Ads platform that provides smarter and more intuitive advertising tools for businesses, including those in Africa, seeking to grow and expand their online presence. AI Max is a tool that helps businesses appear
Read MoreAre Engineers Prepared for the Emerging Agentic AI Software Development World?
Agentic AI software development is revolutionizing low-code and no-code platform capabilities. Reports indicate a significant rise in AI-assisted coding among developers. As AI agents become more autonomous, traditional coding may decline, posing questions about the future roles of software engineers and enhancing business capabilities. The post Are Engineers Prepared for
Read MoreHow Technology Is Reshaping Legal Practices Worldwide?
The legal profession, once bound by paper files and in-person consultations, is undergoing a seismic shift due to technology. What was once a field dominated by paper files and in-person meetings has transformed into a digital-first industry. Legal professionals worldwide now use tech tools to serve clients faster and more
Read MoreABB Invests in STEM Education at Local School in Pretoria
Access to quality STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education remains uneven across South Africa, particularly in under-resourced schools. A study by the Equal Education Law Centre reveals that of the country’s 22,511 public schools, 74% lack libraries, 82% have no laboratories, and 4% have no computer centers. At the
Read MoreFormulating eight queens as a SAT problem
The Boolean satisfiability problem is to determine whether there is a way to assign values to variables in a set of Boolean formulas to make the formulas hold [1]. If there is a solution, the next task would be to enumerate the solutions. You can solve the famous eight queens
Read MoreSpecial solutions to the eight queens problem
There are 92 ways to place eight queens on a chessboard so that no queen is attacking any other. These fall into 12 equivalence classes. The 92 solutions are all rotations and reflections of these 12 basic solutions. If you think about the previous numbers a minute, you might wonder
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