The Greenland icesheet is warming four times faster than the planet as a whole, triggering a domino effect of interconnected disasters that threaten the viability of Earth's life-support systems on which human civilization depends, participants were told at a session...

In a wide-ranging address that touched on the most critical issues of our time, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum meeting to take urgent action. Taking note of a range of critical threats facing the world,...

The EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market rose in value 2,7% year-on-year to reach $325,5-million in the third quarter of 2019, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker. This follows the...

As South Africans prepare to celebrate the festive season, MTN is capacitating its network in high density areas and tourist hotspots in order to carry increased voice and data traffic over the festive season. Operations are underway to cater for additional coverage...

The Experian Business Debt Index (BDI) improved moderately in Q3 from Q2, rising to a reading of -0.18, from -0.35 in Q2. The fact that the index remained below the zero-defining line between improvement and deterioration of business debt conditions, implies that the...

In the age of constant connectivity, consumers today feel more alone than ever - and find it harder to trust their peers and companies. This is one of the key findings of the 8th annual Looking Further with Ford Trend Report in which the motor company identifies trust...

Intel Labs has unveiled what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind cryogenic control chip — code-named Horse Ridge — that will speed up development of full-stack quantum computing systems. Horse Ridge will enable control of multiple quantum bits (qubits) and set a...

The year 2019 has been the “year of ransomware attacks on municipalities”, according to Kaspersky security experts, who observed that at least 174 municipal institutions - with more than 3 000 subset organisations - have been targeted by ransomware during the last...

Gartner has highlighted the trends that infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must start preparing for to support digital infrastructure in 2020. “This past year, infrastructure trends focused on how technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) or edge...

The EMEA tablet market reached 10,9-million units in the third quarter of the year, a drop of 8,2% on the same quarter last year, according to data from IDC, with the contraction in consumer demand continuing to be the main inhibitor of adoption. As consumers lack...