Feb 11, 2013
NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first time any robot has drilled into a rock to collect a sample on...
Feb 8, 2013
The high rate of unemployment in South Africa continues to exacerbate already high levels of over-indebtedness in the country, says Credit Ombud, Manie van Schalkwyk. He was commenting on the release of Stats SA’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey, which shows an...
Feb 7, 2013
A recent hack on the SABC news site is being touted as part of the opening salvo in an Anonymous attack on South African sites known as Operation South Africa (#OpSAfrica). Although it’s unclear whether the operation is being carried out by Anonymous or a local...
Feb 6, 2013
A small improvement in labour mobility could have huge economic benefits for South Africa, actually driving GDP up by as much as 40%. A study commissioned by Citrix reveals that an increase of as little as 5% in the mobility of the workforce, information and...
Feb 5, 2013
South Africans fear they will never be financially free in a worsening global economy. These are some of the results of Visa’s first annual Wealth Worries Survey 2013, one of the most comprehensive reports into middle class South Africans and their money. The report...
Feb 4, 2013
Twitter has reset passwords and revoked session tokens for the approximately 250 000 users thought to have been compromised by the latest security breach. “This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorised access attempts to...
