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...

Ombudsman sounds the alarm over digital wallet fraud

As payment methods become more convenient, the threats targeting users are growing too. Indeed, wherever money or the transfer of money is concerned, fraud will be a factor. Although banks have developed fraud detection and prevention systems, such as SIM Swap...

SA users hit with courier service scams

Kaspersky experts have detected a wave in scams related to the RAM courier service in South Africa: fraudsters are employing deceptive tactics to trick unsuspecting users into divulging their financial information by claiming packages were undelivered due to unpaid...

Tourism and its role during Covid-19 outbreak

The Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Zurab Pololikashvili led a high- delegation to the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva to further advance the two agencies' coordinated response to the worldwide Coronavirus Covid-19...

Business confidence sinks in Q1

After a small increase in the fourth quarter, the RMB/BER Business Confidence Index (BCI) slumped by eight points to 18 in the first quarter of 2020 - a 21-year low. More than eight out of every 10 respondents therefore perceive prevailing business conditions as...

Hybrid cloud enables disruption

Kathy Gibson is at a Dell Technologies webinar - The cloud makes it possible for all companies to provide world-class IT infrastructure to their users. "But there are different types of disruption going on," says Nigel Moulton, global chief technology officer: modern...

How tech can help companies beat Covid-19

Kathy Gibson is at a Dell Technologies webinar - With the news that Covid-19 has been declared a pandemic, digital transformation has become a pressing issue for organisations around the world. Doug Woolley, GM Dell Technologies South Africa, explains that, on the one...

Web inventor warns of online gender abuse, AI discrimination

World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has published an open letter warning that continued lack of web access and a growing crisis of online harms are fuelling discrimination and abuse against women and girls -- and threatening global progress on women's rights...

IDC revises IT spend forecasts down

The escalating coronavirus crisis is already impacting IT markets as buyers and vendors adjust to a new set of assumptions and a new global economic reality. Based on data indicators in the first quarter, International Data Corporation (IDC) expects to see a...

Quantum computing tipped to add competitive advantage

Improved AI capabilities, accelerated business intelligence, and increased productivity and efficiency were the top expectations of organisations currently investing in cloud-based quantum computing technologies. This is among the findings from an International Data...

New energy vehicles sales grow by 50%

According to the latest research from Canalys, 160 000 new energy vehicles (NEVs) were delivered to customers in Europe in Q4 2019, a 52% increase over the previous year. Despite the growth, NEVs still only represented 4,4% of the 3,7-million cars delivered in Q4...

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