Up to 600m Facebook users’ passwords compromised

Facebook is in the news again for a possible security breach. This time, the company has admitted to leaving hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed in plain text. The social media giant says these are potential visible to employees, but it doesn’t...

Inflation steady, but price pressures set to mount

Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) reported on 20 March that consumer price inflation increased from 4% year-on-year (y-o-y) in January to 4,1% y-o-y in February – a smaller increase than the 4,3% that was expected. According to PwC, the StatsSA report suggested...

Huawei scoops a quarter of EMEA smartphone sales

Huawei continued its rapid rise in the EMEA smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2018, gaining a quarter of the Android market for the first time in the region, while its value share of the Android market rose to a third. Arch-rival Samsung held its share in...

Security spend continues to grow in 2019

Worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software, and services is forecast to reach $103,1-billion in 2019, an increase of 9,4% over 2018. This pace of growth is expected to continue for the next several years as industries invest heavily in security...

Bioelectronic medicine goes mainstream

Bioelectronic medicine, technologies that utilise electrical stimulation to treat conditions of the human body, has been in use for many decades for the treatment of cardiac conditions. As companies continue to develop and commercialise new technologies, we are...
Big surprises from small asteroid

Big surprises from small asteroid

A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting from an asteroid’s surface. Bennu also revealed itself to be more rugged than expected,...