Climate change is redrawing the malaria map in Africa

Malaria is the deadliest climate-sensitive infectious disease. Yet, researchers and public health officials have debated how climate change has shaped its spread. A new Nature study by an international team, including the University of Cape Town (UCT), resolved this...

AI is driving more breaches, at an average cost of $6m

One in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled – a 56% increase over last year – and these breaches cost an average of $6-million, roughly $1-million more than the global breach average of $4,99-million. This is among the findings from IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach...

AI automation is having an impact on entry-level hiring

Nearly a quarter (22%) of CHROs report that at least one business leader in their organisation has stopped hiring for entry-level roles due to AI automation, according to Gartner. The 4Q25 Gartner survey of 110 heads of HR also found that 95% of organisations have...

Africa’s young people want jobs, clean government

Africa’s young people are more optimistic about the future of their countries, economies and the continent than at any point since the pandemic - but they are demanding jobs, cleaner government, safer communities, a stronger political voice and a model of democracy...

Strategies to decarbonise AI

The accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is driving up energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the AI value chain, raising urgent concerns about its long-term sustainability and the environmental impact on tech giants. In...

Increased demand for air cargo in March

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released data for March 2025 global air cargo markets showing strong growth – but doubt lingers whether this growth was fuelled by the Trump Administration’s tariff announcements, and whether it is sustainable in...

WhatsApp and its role in elections

With a record number of elections taking place around the world this year, analysts are growing wary of the risk of misinformation through popular social media platforms. In India's 2019 election, misinformation grew more personalised, with WhatsApp raising the red...

Digital twins could be key to using old mines for clean energy

Mark Swinnerton aims to fight climate change by transforming abandoned mines into storage tanks of renewable energy. The CEO of startup Green Gravity is prototyping his ambitious vision in a warehouse 60 miles south of Sydney, Australia, and simulating it in Nvidia...

Westcon acquires AWS partner Rebura

Datatec has announced that its subsidiary Westcon-Comstor has acquired Rebura, an AWS (Amazon Web Services) advanced consulting partner and solution provider. The acquisition will strengthen Westcon-Comstor's cloud capabilities and channel-focused services offering...

Cloud-based quantum computing market on track for $2,21bn

The global cloud-based quantum computing market size is anticipated to reach $2,21-billion by 2030 and is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of 20.5% during the forecast period, according to a new report by Grand View Research. Quantum computing is a new field that has...

SA lags in VPN adoption

South Africa sits right at the bottom of the log when it comes to virtual private network (VPN) usage. The country joins Kenya and Japan with a less-than-2% adoption rate. Around the world, VPNs have become an essential digital tool for Internet users concerned about...

Gamers shop as hard as they play during big sales events

The global video games market is poised to grow impressively in the upcoming years, with expectations of a robust annual growth rate of 9,3% between 2023 and 2028. This projected expansion underscores the ever-increasing popularity of video games as a form of...

NASA successfully pings Indian Moon lander

For the first time at the Moon, a laser beam was transmitted and reflected between an orbiting NASA spacecraft and an Oreo-sized device on ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organisation) Vikram lander on the lunar surface. The successful experiment opens the door to a new...

Speech AI model helps preserve indigenous languages

Indigenous languages are under threat. Some 3 000 - three-quarters of the total - could disappear before the end of the century. That's one every two weeks, according to UNESCO. As part of a movement to protect such languages, New Zealand's Te Hiku Media, a...

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A cybersecurity checklist for African SMEs

Email is still an organisation's weakest point, with 91% of attacks starting with email-based phishing attacks. And they're not going away. In fact, 90% of global organisations have seen an increase in the volume of phishing attacks in the last year. By Heino Gevers,...

Tips to nurture and grow your soft skills

The path to so-called "hard skills" is often clear: Get a degree or certification and you're suddenly qualified with a new line on your CV. However, when it comes to soft skills there are less clear milestones, such as learning the ability to plan a long-term project,...

Axiz builds digital value chain

Building a value machine to service the growing digital ecosystem is a strategic imperative for Axiz Advanced Technologies. Jacques Malherbe, Axiz Advanced Technologies executive, says distribution is rapidly evolving and thus the role and impact on the channel will...

Carbon Black receives five-star customer ratings

Carbon Black customers have given a thumbs-up to the company in a recent Gartner Peer Insights review. Carbon Black, a leader in next-generation endpoint security delivered by the cloud, received 112 five-star ratings from customers in the January 2019 Gartner Peer...

Demystifying software asset management

Keeping track of software and licenses has traditionally been a compliance requirement. However, many organisations struggle with this, from knowing what software they have, to what licenses they are or are not using, to knowing if their software is up to date or...

Is your data protected when the power fails?

Reliable power is in short supply in South Africa and outages are becoming increasingly common, leaving businesses unable to access their systems or data. Not all businesses have the financial and physical capacity to retain an alternative power source, such as a...

Tighter data security regulations drive intelligent storage strategies

Data protection is becoming a priority, as governments roll out new data security regulations with eye-watering penalties for non-compliance, some of them up to 4% of annual turnover. By Hayden Sadler, country manager at Infinidat, South Africa These regulations,...

Safer Internet Day: better together

Yesterday was Safer Internet Day - a call for collaboration that comes at a time when corporate privacy scandals, global ransomware epidemics, nation-state attacks and the regrettably fast-expanding cybercriminal world all threaten to tear the internet apart....

Digitalisation boosts productivity in mining sector

Innovation and technology are playing increasingly valuable roles in boosting performance and sustainable efficiency in mines throughout Africa. Schneider Electric, which has been partnering with mining companies for more than four decades, has a dedicated Mining,...

What were the top-selling pre-owned cars in 2018?

OLX has released the top 10 cars sold on its platform in 2018. According to OLX, there were 4,14-million ads listed on OLX in 2018, with cars making up just a little over a quarter of that total. "We looked at the fastest selling, the most wanted and most listed ads...

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