The glue that holds the Sagrada Familia towers together

The construction of the Sagrada Familia’s central towers marks the most complex structural challenge in the basilica’s history. It is also a novel and unexpected use of superglue. An advanced Loctite solution from Henkel has been instrumental in raising the dramatic...

Why don’t cancer medicines work the same for everyone?

By Susanna Ray - Cancer treatment has become more precise over time, as doctors first classified the disease by where it began in the body and, more recently, by the mutations found inside cancer cells to help find the right drugs to treat it. But why can two people...

Location data sharing raises privacy risks

Your mobile browsers could be sharing your location data. To understand the extent of location tracking in mobile browsers, cybersecurity firm Surfshark has analysed 15 popular applications and discovered that more than half of them gather location data. Four of them...

It’s official: ‘very strong’ El Nino now likely

NOAA’s National Weather Service has announced that El Nino has developed in the tropical Pacific, and issued an El Nino Advisory. El Nino, the warm phase of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), is predicted to intensify to a moderate or strong level this fall....

Juno snaps lightning on Jupiter

NASA's Juno mission observed the glow from a bolt of lightning, in this view of a vortex near Jupiter's north pole. On Earth, lightning bolts originate from water clouds, and happen most frequently near the equator, while on Jupiter lightning likely also occurs in...

Very few customers have used a chatbot recently

Only 8% of customers used a chatbot during their most recent customer service experience, according to a survey by Gartner. Of those, just 25% said they would use that chatbot again in the future. Despite customer service and support leaders' growing focus on...

How to be competitive after Covid-19

Chief financial officers (CFOs) resorting to short-term and unsustainable cost cutting measures during the Covid-19 pandemic risk missing the opportunity to fundamentally reshape their competitive standing over the long-term, according to Gartner. Extensive long-term...

IT buyer confidence still patchy

IT spending expectations remain uneven, with significant differences across countries, industries, and companies, according to the latest update to the IDC Covid-19 Tech Index. Overall sentiment in the US has dropped in the past two weeks, as businesses adjust to...

Covid-19 paints a bleak picture for retail

Due to the coronavirus, global retail sales in 2020 are expected to decline by an average of 9,6% globally, a loss of $2,1-trillion. This is according to Forrester research, which also predicts that it will take four years for retailers to overtake pre-pandemic...

Lockdown drives kids’ Internet activity up

South African children have become more active on the Internet as the national lockdown progresses. Comparing their activity in the first week of January and the last week of March, the overall number of websites visits grew by 200%. This became evident from the...

Five-year stealth espionage campaign uncovered

Researchers at Check Point have uncovered the five-year, ongoing cyber espionage operations of a Chinese APT group targeting several governments in the Asia Pacific Region. First reported in 2015 the group, called Naikon, was responsible for attacks against top-level...

Covid-19 and its potential toll on Africa

Eighty-three thousand to 190 000 people in Africa could die of Covid-19 and 29-million to 44-million could get infected in the first year of the pandemic if containment measures fail, a new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa finds....

Tourism industry takes massive hit

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a 22% fall in international tourist arrivals during the first quarter of 2020, the latest data from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) shows. According to the United Nations specialized agency, the crisis could lead to an annual...

Inclusive growth in a post-Covid world

Kathy Gibson is at the Deloitte Digital Dialogue – The world has become a more unequal place, with growing inequality not just within societies, but also between countries. Dr Martyn Davies, MD: emerging markets and Africa; and dean of the Deloitte Alchemy School of...

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