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...

New alliance aims to set OpenUSD standards

Nvidia has joined with Pixar, Adobe, Apple, and Autodesk to found the Alliance for OpenUSD, which the group says is a major leap towards unlocking the next era of 3D graphics, design, and simulation. The group will standardise and extend OpenUSD, the open source...

How to spot a voice deepfake

Deepfake artificial intelligence has been growing at a rapid rate over the past few years. Machine learning can be used to create compelling fakes of images, video or audio content. Kaspersky experts share insights on distinguishing voice deepfakes: To determine...

Facebook unveils programme for community leaders

Facebook has launched the Community Accelerator programme, available in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. An evolution of the Facebook Community Leadership Programme (FCLP), the six-month accelerator programme provides training, mentorship and funding to help community...

Users urged to stay alert to virus scams

Kaspersky researchers have found multiple Covid-19-related malicious e-mail campaigns and hundreds of downloadable files that attempt to infect users' devices with threats. While news on the coronavirus spread continues to appear and dominate the headlines, attackers...

Liquid Telecom prepared for virus outbreak

Liquid Telecom has put plans in place to deal with the novel coronavirus Covid-19. With more than 2 000 employess in 13 African countries, the company has issued a statement sharing the steps it has taken to mitigate risk during the outbreak. Liquid Telecom has a...

PC monitors hit 5-year high, but slowdown expected

The worldwide market for PC monitors grew 5% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2019 (4Q19), according to preliminary results from International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker. Global shipments exceeded expectations, reaching just...

Youth don’t think education prepares them for jobs

An online poll of 40 000 young people in more than 150 countries reveals that many young people feel their current education is not preparing them with the skills they need to get jobs. One-third (31%) of the young people responding via the UNICEF engagement platform...

AI emerges as new malware threat

The past year has seen changes in messaging-specific threats along with the use of more sophisticated malware, as well as the potential abuse of emerging technologies in artificial intelligence to inform future business protection strategies. These are among the...

Sabric warns of mobile phone snatching fraud

Th South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric), on behalf of the banking industry, is warning bank clients to protect their mobile devices. The theft of mobile phones is not a new phenomenon, but Sabric is seeing an emerging trend where mobile phones that...

IP address prices could double

IP address market prices are estimated to increase by as much as 100% in the next five years, turning the remaining IPv4 resources into a tradable commodity and creating a newfound demand for IP leasing services. The growth of prices in the IP market is a result of...

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