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...

How will your career withstand the impact of AI?

New research from The TEFL Academy’s South African Career Resilience Report 2026 reveals that 57% of local respondents have questioned whether their chosen career or qualification will still be valuable because of artificial intelligence - while 84% say AI has already...

Middle East conflict: What are the economic implications?

The primary transmission mechanism of greater tensions in the Middle East region to the global economy would be through higher energy prices, writes David Rees, senior emerging markets economist at Schroders, who adds that the price of Brent crude has already climbed...

New genomics project aims to improve global health

An international collaboration is aiming to improve global health by uncovering the effects of genomic and environmental diversity on differences in disease risk observed across the global population - thanks to a new partnership of 20 research groups from around the...

AI could close Africa’s healthcare gap

Investment in data and AI will be a key tool driving African health system improvements during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, low- and middle-income countries could soon leapfrog high-income countries in their adoption of new AI-enabled technologies in...

Q2 GDP data confirms deep lockdown recession

Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) reported yesterday (8 September) that the South African economy contracted by 51% quarter on quarter (q-o-q) in the second quarter of 2020 due to the national lockdown. Lullu Krugel, chief economist for PwC Strategy Africa, and Dr...

Now HCI means so much more

Kathy Gibson reports - Nutanix has repurposed the acronym HCI. To the rest of the world the letters stand for hyperconverged infrastructure, but to Nutanix they will henceforth describe hybrid cloud infrastructure instead. Dheeraj Pandey, outgoing CEO of Nutanix,...

Nutanix CEO and co-founder to step down

Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey is retiring from the company he founded 11 years ago and built in a $1,6-billion organisation. Pandey landed in the US with $900.00 to his name before forming the hybrid cloud software and services company. “Co-founding and leading Nutanix...

Environment comes under the spotlight during Covid

While scientists around the world are confined to their homes during the Covid-19 pandemic, Earth observing satellites continue to orbit and send back images that reveal connections between the pandemic and the environment. “Satellites collect data all the time and...

GDP plunged 51% in Q2

South Africa's gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 51% in the second quarter of 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions imposed from the end of March 2020. This was the fourth consecutive decline in quarterly GDP since the second quarter of 2019....

Mobile payments could unlock new business for banks

Banks in Africa must provide mobile payments and other digital services to remain competitive as well as to unlock new business opportunities across sectors such as energy, health care, education and transportation. This is according to a new report by Boston...

Online commerce an essential pivot for businesses

Covid-19 has seen businesses around the globe accelerate their digital transformations - making years of progress in a matter of days in some cases. By Robin Fisher, regional vice-president of Salesforce: Emerging Markets During the early stages of the crisis,...

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