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...

How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Russian spacecraft crashes into the moon

Russia's first moon mission in 47 years has failed, after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into moon. The state space corporation Roscosmos, said on Sunday (August 20), that it had lost contact with the craft shortly after a problem occurred...

4th Gen AMD EPYC powers Amazon EC2 instances

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its 4th Gen AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M7a and Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances, which offer next-generation performance and efficiency for applications that...

Expect Covid-19 SMSs, but beware of fraudsters

South Africa’s Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (WASPA) advises mobile users that they should expect to receive educational SMS (short message service) text messages to do with the current Covid-19 emergency. “Aside from expecting these messages...

Double extortion comes to the fore

Researchers at Check Point see a rising trend in a new ransomware tactic: “double extortion”. This tactic sees threat actors add an additional stage to a ransomware attack: prior to encrypting a victim’s database, hackers will extract large quantities of sensitive...

Phone industry set for massive decline

IDC is forecasting that the European smartphone market will likely fall in value by more than a quarter this year in the aftermath of widespread national lockdowns to combat the spread of coronavirus. Under IDC's current forecast, in a worst-case scenario the value...

AI needs to accelerate to tackle pandemic

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the IDC (International Data Corporation) Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide had forecast European artificial intelligence (AI) spending of $10-billion for 2020, and a healthy growth at a 33% CAGR throughout 2023. With the...

Research offers focused Covid-19 analysis

Strategy and investment consulting firm Singular has released its South African Health & Economic crises research to provide decision-makers with a concrete and focused view on how the crises in South Africa could develop over the next weeks and months. Singular...

Workforce transformation in a time of crisis

Kathy Gibson is at the Dell Technologies Harness your Digital Future Virtual Summit - The four pillars of digital transformation are IT transformation, workforce transformation, security transformation and application transformation. This is the word from Walid Yehia,...

Arctic stratospheric ozone depletion hit record low in March

Ozone levels above the Arctic reached a record low for March, NASA researchers report. An analysis of satellite observations show that ozone levels reached their lowest point on 12 March, at 205 Dobson units. While such low levels are rare, they are not unprecedented....

SA entrepreneurs innovate in testing

Two South African entrepreneurs have developed a testing kit that promises to significantly speed up the process of identifying positive Covid-19 cases. Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Fellows Daniel Ndima and Dineo Lioma have developed a testing kit that provides results...

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