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...

SABS publishes technical spec for climate change

The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) has published a South African technical specification (SATS) which enables local government and communities to implement a framework to prepare for and manage the impact of climate change. SATS 14092 (2023): Adaptation to...

SA retailers lose billions through customer disconnect

Formal retailers in South Africa are losing billions of rands in annual sales because of a disconnect between the customer touchpoint mix that they prioritise and those that their customers prefer. This is one of the key findings of a big data research study conducted...

Incidence of digital banking fraud increases

Robust mitigation strategies deployed by member banks and partners are showing results in terms of fewer incidences of crime. This is according to the annual crime stats for 2019 released by the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric). Digital banking...

China’s ‘big fill’ sets oil stocks record

IHS Markit estimates that China's crude oil inventories will increase by 440-million barrels over the first six months of 2020. This "big fill" dwarfs the largest ever six-month increase in US crude stocks to date which was during late 2014 and early 2015 when stocks...

New attack steals online shoppers’ payment details

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a new technique for stealing users' payment information on online shopping websites - a type of attack known as web skimming. By registering for Google Analytics accounts and injecting these accounts' tracking code into the...

Converged systems market shows resilience

Global converged systems market revenue increased 4,5% year over year to $3,9-billion during the first quarter of 2020, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker. "The overall converged systems market showed resilience during a difficult macro...

Gen Z shoppers pave the way for mobile commerce

Generation Z, people aged 18 to 24, is paving the way for innovation in the e-commerce space. Baby Boomers, aged 55 to 64, are not far behind them. These are among the figures released by payment gateway PayFast, which has seen an increase in online shopping and...

POPI: What you need to know

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the operative provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPI) - which governs when and how organisations collect, use, store, delete and otherwise handle personal information - will come into force on...

Fugaku tops supercomputer list

Supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by Riken and Fujitsu, has been ranked number one in the 58th TOP500 list of the world's supercomputers with LINPACK performance of 415.53 PFLOPS (petaflops) and a computing efficiency ratio of 80,87%. Fugaku also took first...

Increase in digital activity pushes cybercrime up

The spread of the novel coronavirus across the world has created new opportunities for online fraudsters who are exploiting the vulnerability of users confined to their homes, taking advantage of their reliance on the Internet to access information and services....

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