Apr 19, 2016
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:29 pm EDT on this weekend (17 April), and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation...
Apr 18, 2016
Kathy Gibson reports from Kaspersky Labs’ Cybersecurity conference in Baku – As the Internet of Things becomes more pervasive, organisations find that their industrial systems are now exposed on their corporate IT networks and therefore a lot more vulnerable...
Apr 15, 2016
It seems that one citizen’s hacktivist is another’s cyber terrorist. Today, an undecided verdict hangs over groups like Anonymous, which harness the power of technology to help ignite revolutions, fight oppression and dismantle dictatorships, while...
Apr 14, 2016
The South African economy may be subdued, but it is still growing. The March 2016 BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index (BETI) showed a slight improvement on March 2015, but was significantly more modest than the February numbers. In February the month-on-month...
Apr 13, 2016
By 2025, jobs which were common place in 2015 will no longer exist – and students graduating in 2016 will have obsolete qualifications for which there will no longer be a profession. This is according to Wayne Houghton, director of growth implementation solutions at...
Apr 12, 2016
Using satellite data on how water moves around Earth, NASA scientists have solved two mysteries about wobbles in the planet’s rotation — one new and one more than a century old. The research may help improve our knowledge of past and future climate, and...
