Russian players excluded from European esports

The European Esports Federation (EEF), in support of Ukraine and condemning Russia’s military aggression, has stated that Russian athletes are not allowed to participate in the European Championships. On 4 May, the EEF issued an official statement from the...

Search is on for sustainable plastic packaging solutions

Cheap, mouldable, and corrosion resistant; these qualities have made plastic a dependable packaging staple for the manufacture of consumer goods sold online. But in South Africa – where the total cost of plastic waste pollution exceeds R885-billion annually...

Shipping losses fall, but waters are still muddy

The international shipping industry is responsible for the carriage of around 90% of world trade, so vessel safety is critical. The sector continued its long-term positive safety trend over the past year but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the growing number of...

Ransomware hits more than half of SA companies

Sophos’s new State of Ransomware 2022 report shows that 51% of South African organisations surveyed were hit with ransomware in 2021. Forty-nine percent of the organisations that had data encrypted paid the ransom to get their data back, even if they had other...
Spectrum key to driving digital and economic transformation

Spectrum key to driving digital and economic transformation

It has been more than a decade since the significant release of spectrum for mobile broadband services in South Africa – a limitation that has impacted the industry and citizens in measurable ways. It has constrained growth within the telecommunications market...

NASA rocket aims to measure Earth’s life-supporting secret

Why does Earth support life, while Venus and Mars – and for all we know, any other planet in the universe – do not? “It’s one of the most fundamental questions in all of science: Why are we here? And it’s what Endurance is after,”...