Roman telescope aims to travel 1m miles into space

This month could see the launch a new space telescope that aims to travel 1-million miles and record billions of galaxies. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could launch from the Kennedy Space Station as early as 30 August aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. The Roman...

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...

Mining industry embraces sustainability strategies

Mining companies are increasingly adopting sustainable strategies such as low-carbon smelting and advanced recycling programmes to reduce their environmental impact and boost efficiency – and these innovations optimise resource use and lower operational costs by...

Green electrons raised from private wind energy project

The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) has celebrated a milestone in South Africa’s renewable energy journey. Alongside its members - Reatile, AIIM, ACED, Sasol, and Rand Merchant Bank – it has witnessed the successful delivery of wind electrons from the...

Consumers must develop positive financial habits in challenging times

South African consumers remain under financial pressure. This is according to the Experian Consumer Default Index (CDI), produced on a quarterly basis, which shows a deteriorating trend when compared to the prior year. The CDI deteriorated at both a Composite level as...

MEA PC demand drops as market normalises

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, posted a year-on-year decline of 12,8% during the third quarter of 2022, according to the latest industry analysis conducted...

Covid burden lessens in Africa, but numbers are creeping up

While Africa is witnessing its lowest level of new Covid-19 cases since the onset of the pandemic, a recent four-week rise - the first such sustained increase in four months - underscores the criticality of maintaining vigilance as the end-year holiday seasons sets...

Network security maintains strong revenue growth

The worldwide Network Security market maintained its ongoing rebound from the 2020 pandemic-induced recession with the eighth consecutive quarter of stronger revenue growth, and the sixth quarter of double-digit revenue growth. According to a recently published report...

Arriving at the airport ready to fly is close to reality

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has developed industry standards which will bring the aim of having travellers arrive at airports ready-to-fly one step closer to reality. The newly released Recommended Practice on Digitalization of Admissibility...

ISPs urged to register with the FPB

South Africa's Internet Service Provider Association (ISPA) and the country's Film and Publication Board (FPB) have a close working relationship and ISPA views recent concerns raised about the requirement of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to register with the FPB...

Eastern Africa is not ready to accept AI

A global survey commissioned by a UK-based safety charity has found that Eastern Africa is the least optimistic region in the world about artificial intelligence (AI), with more than half (51%) of respondents saying it would mostly harm people in their country over...

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Business success through smarter HR

Attracting and retaining the best talent is widely recognised to be an important success factor, if not the success factor, when it comes to achieving competitive advantage. "Unfortunately, too many companies continue to rely on poor information when it comes to...

Beyond data towards insight

Big data has redefined our world. It's constant and rapid flow originates from a wide variety of sources and has allowed the opportunity for organisations to access greater intelligence, writes Mark Heymann, senior director: commercial at TransUnion. Organisations,...

EduWeek advanced education knowledge in Africa

EduWeek with SABC Education powered by Intel is a free-to-attend education event which takes place on 29 and 30 June at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand. Recognised as the most comprehensive education event in Sub-Saharan Africa, visitors to this year's...

Record sales for Huawei P9 and P9 Plus

Huawei Consumer Business Group South Africa has announced that sales of its newest flagship smartphones, the P9 and P9 Plus, have achieved unprecedented levels since the launch on 2 June. This the global success of the P-series, which saw over 2,6-million devices sold...

IT managed services reduce risk, up performance

Gone are the days when a business simply needed to have a better product or service than that of its competitor, to succeed, and technology was merely a supporting tool to achieve this. Today, companies are driven to provide a unique customer experience - the more...

Insurance telematics policies gain traction

According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of insurance telematics policies in force on the European market reached 5,3-million in Q4-2015. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37,2%, this number is expected to...

Cloud changes the face of HCM outsourcing

HCM practices in South Africa are ever-evolving and, with this, there's a growing demand for software that's more agile, mobile and flexible in order to support today's dynamic working environments. Mandisa Seleoane, human capital executive at Adapt IT, says that...

Nutanix expands Microsoft relationship

Nutanix has expanded its relationship with Microsoft through collaboration on a jointly-engineered integrated system designed to provide customers a comprehensive hybrid cloud offering. The new offering brings together the Microsoft Cloud Platform System (CPS)...

NetApp ranked second for all-flash arrays

According to the IDC Q1 2016 Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, NetApp is growing much faster than the all flash array market as a whole and has gained market share versus the competition. Per IDC, NetApp all flash array revenue grew 238,2% year...

Gemalto e-passports ranked tops

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Deliver on BI platform initiatives. Assemble delivery scrum teams as required to deliver on the portfolio of initiatives from the BI platform and company resource pools. Establish and manage team cadence throughout the delivery lifecycle, facilitating all scrum...

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