Digital privacy fatigue drives online apathy

Digital privacy fatigue drives online apathy

With the amount of personal data shared on the Internet continuing to grow, some users are resigned to think that any attempts to maintain online privacy will be doomed to failure. Kaspersky Lab has recently discovered that 42% of South African consumers do not know...
Modest growth forecast for IT spend

Modest growth forecast for IT spend

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3,79-trillion in 2019, an increase of 1,1% from 2018, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Currency headwinds fueled by the strengthening U.S. dollar have caused us to revise our 2019 IT spending forecast...
Meteoroid strikes point to water on the Moon

Meteoroid strikes point to water on the Moon

Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapour. The findings will help scientists understand the history of lunar...
Regulations the top emerging risk for businesses

Regulations the top emerging risk for businesses

Concerns about rapidly accelerating privacy regulations and their associated regulatory burdens have become the top emerging risk that organisations face globally, according to Gartner’s latest Emerging Risks Monitor Report. The quarterly survey of 98 senior...
Tips for investors to manage political risks in sub-Saharan Africa

Tips for investors to manage political risks in sub-Saharan Africa

More than two-thirds of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa are at risk from strikes, riots and other types of civil unrest with a quarter of them at danger of sabotage and terrorist attacks. This is according Aon’s 2019 Risk Maps, developed in partnership with...
This is what a black hole in space looks like – first-ever images

This is what a black hole in space looks like – first-ever images

A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called theĀ Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). EHT is an international collaboration whose support in the US includes the National...