The shocking reality facing jobseekers

Of the 867 706 people who registered looking for entry-level work in retail, restaurants and quick-service outlets over a 13-month period, just 6 566 were appointed - approximately one in every 132 – and between them, they sent nearly five million applications. The...

Spatial data maps where Super El Niño will hit SA hardest

The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can't say which town or...

MeerKAT and Webb measure farthest fast radio burst

First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts are enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant universe. Their origin remains uncertain, particularly since most are seen once and never again. Now, astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space...

Ampath confirms hack, but disputes theft of 80m patient records

Ampath, one of the country’s biggest pathology labs, has confirmed that it has been the victim of a cyberattack, but has issued a statement clarifying the claim by hackers that “80-million patient records” have been stolen. The company says it has contained the...

Over £1m invested in African innovators

The Royal Academy of Engineering is investing over £1-million this year in alumni of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation programme through grants, prizes and accelerator programme awards, to facilitate long-term success of innovations addressing local...

Companies flag GenAI as privacy, data security risk

Privacy is much more than a regulatory compliance matter, and businesses are increasingly concerned about the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). This is among findings in the Cisco 2024 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, an annual review of key privacy...

Outmoded approaches put Covid cost-efficiency gains at risk

Organisations that achieved unexpected cost efficiency gains as a result of operational constraints due to the Covid-19 pandemic risk losing these gains needlessly, according to research from Gartner. The traditional approach of reintroducing costs after a business...

2020 was strongest year on record for PC monitors

Persistent demand led the global PC monitor market to impressive heights during the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20). The market grew 16,9% year over year with shipments surpassing 39,2-million units, a number last exceeded during the fourth quarter of 2011. For the full...

Converged systems market saw minor gains in Q4

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, worldwide converged systems market revenue grew 0,2% year over year to $4,5-billion during the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20). "The converged systems market closed out...

Is SA creating the skills for a digital future?

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed structural weaknesses and widened inequalities across the world. Even before the pandemic, the rise of automation and innovative technologies were transforming the world of work, resulting in an urgent need for upskilling of talent....

What people expect from a cyborg future

New research carried out by security company Kaspersky unveils disparity over a future shared with augmented people - in their family, workplace, and even personal life. The study finds that a lack of understanding around human augmentation could be holding back...

Covid-19 forced hard business conversations

The Covid-19 pandemic forced businesses to have the hard conversations; reassess their strategies and negotiate better terms - and those that have adapted well will be positioned to grow the South African economy out of its slump. This is according to Isaac...

Bitcoin accounts for 40% of gold’s average daily trading volume

Data calculated by Finbold indicates that bitcoin's average daily trading volume between 1 January 2021, and 15 March 2021, is at $70,18-billion. The figure accounts for 39,41% of gold's $178,97-billion average daily trading volume for the same period. Elsewhere,...

Cyber arms race at a tipping point

Work-from-home (WFH) has resulted in exponentially greater attack surfaces from cybercriminals, armed with powerful cloud-based tools, cloud storage and endless targets, according to the 2021 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report. "As working environments evolved, so did the...

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Data Management Business Analyst

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