Ford tops vehicle exports in September

Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) emerged as the top vehicle exporter for September 2020, with a total of 6 995 units shipped to its more than 100 global markets – an increase of 11,3% compared to August 2020, and its highest export volume for the...
Watch an exploding star fade into oblivion

Watch an exploding star fade into oblivion

When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it’s not going to remain visible for long. Like intergalactic paparazzi, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the quick, fading celebrity status...

Outdoor surveillance is governments’ IoT priority

The global government Internet of Things (IoT) endpoint electronics and communications market will total $14,7-billion in 2020, an increase of 6% from 2019, according to Gartner. “The Covid-19 pandemic is slowing down spending, however, governments across the...

Top 10 smartphone brands capture 88% market share

According to the research data analysed and published by ComprarAcciones.com, worldwide smartphone sales declined by 20,4% in Q2 2020. There was a total of 294,7-million units sold compared to 370,3-million units in Q2 2019. Samsung, which is among the world’s...

Customised firmware bootkit found in the wild

Kaspersky’s researchers have uncovered an advanced persistent threat (APT) espionage campaign that uses a very rarely seen type of malware known as a firmware bootkit. The new malware was detected by Kaspersky’s UEFI/BIOS scanning technology, which detects...

South Africans take to digital payments

The accelerating rate at which retail merchants are enabling consumers to pay digitally at point of sale is fueling the growth of digital payments in South Africa. This is according to FNB, which reveals that the scan-to-pay and tap-to-pay functionality on its app...