China launches Mars rover

China launches Mars rover

China launched a Mars probe on Thursday, aiming to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission, and taking the first step in its planetary exploration of the solar system. A Long March-5 rocket, China’s largest launch vehicle, carrying the spacecraft...

SA gets first-ever African Development Bank funding for Covid response

The board of directors of the African Development Bank has approved a loan of approximately R5-billion ($288 million) to the government of South Africa, as the country battles one of the largest Covid-19 caseloads in the world. South Africa confirmed its first case of...

A new perspective on the modern workplace

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we live and work. According to Cisco-commissioned research, the dramatic shift in the percentage of employees working from home created unexpected challenges, with the priority being to keep businesses moving forward. The...

DaaS the winner as remote work takes off

The worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 6,3% in 2020 to total $257,9-billion, up from $242,7-billion in 2019, according to Gartner. Desktop as a service (DaaS) is expected to have the most significant growth in 2020, increasing 95,4% to...

Lazarus targets Windows, Linux, MacOS

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a series of attacks which use an advanced malware framework, called MATA, to target Windows, Linux and MacOS operating systems. In use since spring 2018, the framework is linked to Lazarus, a well-known and prolific North Korean...