NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...

Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

Gloomy outlook for global economies as geopolitical tensions worsen

Coface’s latest risk review, Rates Against the Machine, has confirmed what the world dreaded just a few months ago has come to pass – rather than improve, the geopolitical situation has deteriorated once again. This, Coface says, puts upward pressure on commodity...

Banks are still missing the links between fraud and money laundering

Financial institutions are increasingly integrating their fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) systems, but intelligence and governance gaps remain. New fraud and AML convergence research from Datos Insights, commissioned by data and AI leader SAS, finds 86% report...

Cybercriminals stoop to exploit Israeli-Hamas conflict

Kaspersky has identified a scam campaign exploiting the Israeli-Hamas conflict whereby cybercriminals are attempting to capitalise on people's willingness to aid those impacted by deceiving potential victims into making donations - ultimately leading to the theft of...

Wrap: Gitex Global 2023

Gitex, held every year in Dubai, bills itself as the biggest IT show in the world. Kathy Gibson reports   Dubai’s vision for a human-centric digital city Dubai is known as one of the world’s most technologically advanced cities, with an impressive array of...

Global smartphone sales plunge 20%

The Covid-19 pandemic continued to impact the global mobile phone industry, as worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 295-million units, a decline of 20,4% in the second quarter of 2020, according to Gartner. Among the top five smartphone vendors, Samsung...

Banks still not fully integrating ESG

Environmental, social and governance criteria (ESG) are not yet fully integrated into banks' strategies around the world. More responsible banking practices can be achieved if banks make the criteria part of their risk management frameworks and measure it more...

Inflation back in target range during July

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on August 25 that consumer price inflation increased from 2,2% year-on-year (y-o-y) in June to 3,2% y-o-y in August. Article by Lullu Krugel, chief economist for PwC Strategy Africa, and Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC...

Covid-19 tops the list of threats in 2020

Covid-19 related threats were the single largest type of threat in the first half of the year. In just six months, Trend Micro blocked 8,8-million Covid-19-related threats, nearly 92% of which were email-based. Cybercriminals shifted their focus from January through...

WEF delays Davos meeting, adds virtual engagement

The World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos is the latest major event to be disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The organisation has decided to reschedule the 2021 event to later in the year. According to Adrian Monck, MD: public engagement at the World...

DeathStalker: an APT that spies on SMEs

Kaspersky researchers have published a detailed overview of DeathStalker, a "mercenary" advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has been leveraging efficient espionage attacks on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the financial sector since at least...

SA leads in online activism during pandemic

The Change.org Global Digital Civic Engagement Index shows a sharp increase, since the pandemic outbreak, of South Africans using online petitions to voice their concerns, influence policy and persuade decision makers to make changes on issues related to Covid-19....

Human contact still important in contact centres

In today's digitally-driven world, it is safe to say that businesses and brands that do not invest in digital channels are at risk of losing market share and relevance, with 90% of consumers looking for a seamless omni-channel experience. When it comes to customer...

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