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...

Farming expansion, climate change expose 1bn cows to heat stress

More than 1-billion cows around the world will experience heat stress by the end of the century if carbon emissions are high and environmental protection is low, according to new research published in Environmental Research Letters on 24 August 2023. This would mean...

Entrepreneurship development can accelerate township revival

Technological progress has accelerated productivity within organisations. However, in the modern business world, this has also created a major societal problem: the stark mismatch of skilled people for available jobs. In South Africa, the youth skilling challenge is...

Changed perimeter puts network at risk

Kathy Gibson is at the virtual Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit – Cyber crooks haven’t taken a holiday while the world is in lockdown. Eugene Kaspersky points out that, during quarantine, we have seen an increase of about 10% in malware. “The cyber crooks are...

PhantomLance targets mobile devices

Kathy Gibson reports on the virtual Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit – As mobile devices become the most popular way for people to access  the Internet, mobile advanced persistent threats (APTs), have the ability to affect thousands if not millions of smartphone...

Zoom opts for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Zoom Video Communications is turning to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to support its growth and evolving business needs as the enterprise video communications company continues to provide an essential service to its extensive customer base. “We recently experienced the...

Mobile PCs in demand, but supply issues stymie sales

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) declined YoY in 20202Q1(-3,1% YoY) and totaled 16,4-million units, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Amid the problematic macroeconomic scenario...

Finance leaders exposed to second Covid-19 wave

A massive 42% of chief financial officers are not incorporating a second wave outbreak of Covid-19 in the financial scenarios they are building for the remainder of 2020. This is among the findings from a Gartner survey of 99 CFOs and finance leaders, which revealed...

Late payments push SMEs over the edge

Getting big business and government in pay their small business suppliers on time is one of the biggest challenges facing South African small businesses - and when the problem persists too long, it can ultimately shut down a small business. This is according to Mike...

African leaders anticipate revenue declines

In a live poll conducted by Africa.com on April 22 as part of its webinar series, Crisis Management for African Business Leaders, nearly 70% of webinar participants predicted that their business revenue will decrease by more than 10% next month. A massive 47%...

1,69m Andoid handsets infected in SA

Secure-D from Upstream detected 1,69-million malware-infected android devices in South Africa last year, from more than 18 000 applications. While the rogue apps behave normally on a smartphone's screen, they surreptitiously click on links and adverts, sign users up...

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