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...

Cisco to acquire Splunk

Cisco intends to acquire Splunk for $157 per share in cash, representing approximately $28-billion in equity value. When the acquisition closes, Splunk president and CEO Gary Steele will join Cisco's executive leadership team reporting to chair and CEO Chuck Robbins....

Disruptive startups spearhead gaming revolution

The gaming arena is constantly evolving, thanks to the cutting-edge technological trends driven by innovative startups. These entrepreneurial ventures are harnessing the emerging technologies like AI, AR/VR, and smartphones to pioneer avant-garde business models and...

No surprises, limited relief for struggling businesses

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni did not offer many surprises in his supplementary budget today, which aims to rebalance government spending and create a framework for economic growth in the post-Covid landscape. By Yolandi Esterhuizen, registered tax practitioner and...

Budget outlines significant challenges, but few solutions

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's 2020 Supplementary Budget Speech clearly emphasised the dire situation facing the National Treasury. Unfortunately, it did not offer much detail about how it expects to actively raise revenue and reduce expenditure to address the...

Brace for deepest recession in 90 years

South Africa can expect a deep recession this year - as bad as any in the last 90 years. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivered his Supplementary Budget Speech 2020 to (a virtual) Parliament yesterday (June 24). Lullu Krugel chief economist for PwC Strategy&, and...

Key pointers to improving youth outcomes

This week's announcement by Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey that nearly 40% of South Africans and 70% of young South Africans are unemployed by the expanded unemployment definition argues that immediate and simple solutions are urgently needed in this...

How bundled attacks hit Mac users

Contrary to popular belief, cybercriminals target Mac systems - but most people don't take these threats seriously enough. SophosLabs has published an in-depth report, "New Bundlore Adware Targets MacOS with Updated Safari Extensions", that report analyses an...

Telco projects not disrupted by pandemic

There is no evidence of significant disruption to telco innovation projects due to Covid-19. If anything, the crisis is only serving to underscore the logic of digital transformation, which is accelerating telco ambition to go further, faster. Consequently, the short-...

Covid-19 and its impact on global tourism

As tourism slowly restarts in an increasing number of countries, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released new data measuring the impact of Covid-19 on the sector. After several months of unprecedented disruption, the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer reports...

ZACR wants a R10 increase for domains

South Africa's ZA Central Registry NPC (ZACR) is motivating for a price increase in the wholesale registration and renewal fee for co.za, web.za. org.za and net.za domains. The current annual domain fee of R45 has been unchanged since 2014, and ZACR is asking for this...

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