Counting the global cost of digital exclusion

Counting the global cost of digital exclusion

A staggering 627-million individuals globally – more than the populations of the US and Brazil combined – are excluded from essential digital services, including financial services, education, healthcare, and employment platforms. The is according to global...
Data privacy breaches costing insurance industry

Data privacy breaches costing insurance industry

Cyber claims have continued their upward trend over the past year – driven in large part by a rise in data and privacy breach incidents, according to Allianz Commercial’s annual cyber risk outlook. The frequency of large cyber claims (>€1-million) in the...
Nobel prize in physics honours AI/ML pioneers

Nobel prize in physics honours AI/ML pioneers

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to John J Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey E Hinton of the University of Toronto. This year’s two Nobel Laureates in Physics used tools from physics to develop methods that...
The Zen in setting up workplaces for Gen Z

The Zen in setting up workplaces for Gen Z

Gen Z is an age group that has never known a time without the Internet; they’ve shared their life milestones on Instagram and are now moving to the beat of TikTok trends; their appetite for digital is unprecedented; globalisation and economic uncertainty have been a...
NASA beams laser communications as far as Mars

NASA beams laser communications as far as Mars

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration has broken yet another record for laser communications by sending a laser signal from Earth to NASA’s Psyche spacecraft about 460-million kilometres away. That’s the same distance between our planet and...
Caution reigns as demand for automation grows

Caution reigns as demand for automation grows

New research from Ricoh Europe highlights a growing demand from both decision-makers and employees for process automation to enhance productivity and job satisfaction – however, despite this enthusiasm, concerns over disrupting critical systems are delaying...