4IR not the biggest culprit causing job losses

In response to the release of the CCMA’s report for the year by director Cameron Morajane, trade union body Solidarity says that the large-scale job losses in South Africa cannot be mainly attributed to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Morajane says there...

Old Mutual moves to the cloud with AWS

Old Mutual has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and will migrate its digital customer platforms, core insurance applications and product administration systems to the cloud. The company will migrate over 1 000 applications to AWS, shutting down its data...

Healthcare and transport reimagined in 4IR

Imagine a world in which doctors will be able to predict illness, and really offer healthcare as opposed to the “sick care” that they provide today; or a future in which your self-driving car could be despatched to collect groceries or pick up children...

1% of corporate network ‘noise’ is targeted attacks

In the first half of 2019, only a handful (1,26%) of Indicators of Attack (IoA) alerts on device endpoints were identified as cybersecurity incidents, according to Kaspersky’s Managed Detection and Response Analytics Report. Of the 40,806 alerts generated via...

Drawing the line on food waste

There is a strong movement towards the immediacy of reducing the effects of climate change as echoed in young Greta Thunberg’s recent UN speech, underpinned by the sentiment – Right Here. Right Now – and as she tackles issues of magnitude in this...
Milky Way raids intergalactic ‘bank accounts’

Milky Way raids intergalactic ‘bank accounts’

Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow gas out of the galactic disk, but that gas falls back onto the galaxy to form new generations of stars. In an ambitious effort to conduct a full accounting of this recycling process,...