AI seen as key in driving post-Covid business

AI seen as key in driving post-Covid business

Recent advances in technology are making artificial intelligence (AI) more accessible than ever – but a lack of AI skills and increasing data complexity are cited as top challenges to AI’s adoption. This is among the findings from new research from IBM,...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter flight rendered in 3D

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter flight rendered in 3D

When NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took to the Martian skies on its third flight on April 25, the agency’s Perseverance rover was there to capture the historic moment. Now NASA engineers have rendered the flight in 3D, lending dramatic depth to the...

Elon Musk does bitcoin about-turn

Elon Musk has thrown the cryptocurrency markets into turmoil once again as he rescinds bitcoin payments for Tesla vehicles. Less than two months ago, Musk announced that Tesla would accept payment in bitcoin. Now he’s done an about-turn. “Tesla has...
Covid pushes online shopping to tipping point

Covid pushes online shopping to tipping point

Kathy Gibson reports – Online shopping has reached the tipping point, having doubled in volume and value in just one year. This isn’t the end of the traditional bricks-and-mortar store, says Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, although it will start...
Post Office action could stifle e-commerce in SA

Post Office action could stifle e-commerce in SA

The SA Post Office has launched court action against PostNet and the SA Express Parcel Association, aiming to make the Post Office the only operator that can deliver packages weighing 1kg and less. If the court rules in the Post Office’s favour, the impact on...
Ransomware attack disrupts US fuel supplies

Ransomware attack disrupts US fuel supplies

The movement of oil across the US has now been disrupted for three days as ransomware closed a pipeline that supplies about 45% of the fuel to the eastern parts of the country. Colonial Pipeline was forced to close about 5 500 miles of pipeline when if got hit with a...