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 the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). EHT is an international collaboration whose support in the US includes the National...
Pensioners hit hard with credit card fraud

Pensioners hit hard with credit card fraud

There has been a sharp increase in credit card fraud during the first quarter of 2019, according to a review by the Ombudsman for Banking Services. Credit card fraud is theft involving a payment card – either debit or credit – as a fraudulent source of...

As data explodes, more companies struggle with protection

Data has grown by an explosive 569%, while data protection “adopters” have increased by almost 50 percentage points since 2016. This is according to Dell EMC’s third Global Data Protection Index, which surveyed 2 200 IT decision makers from both...
Unexpected rain on the sun links two solar mysteries

Unexpected rain on the sun links two solar mysteries

For five months in mid-2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every day. Arriving to her office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, she sat at her desk, opened up her computer, and stared at images of the Sun — all day, every day. “I probably...