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...

Why Threads is a genuine threat to Twitter

With the new Threads social media platform on the rise - destined, some say, to reshape how we communicate, promote brands, and engage with each other - an exciting new era is seemingly underway. "Among the launch of numerous social media platforms over the years,...

Check Point raises security concerns over Google Bard

With the slew of generative AI intelligent platforms emerging, starting with ChatGPT, Check Point Research (CPR ) recently conducted a security analysis of the latest one - Google Bard - and did a comparative analysis vis-à-vis ChatGPT. What the security experts found...

Not all gloom and doom for SA’s IT market

Kathy Gibson is at IDC Directions 2020 in Sandton - South Africa is no stranger to bad news. As 2020 unfolds, every day seems to bring another blow to the business community. But local companies still have to do business and move forward, despite - or because of -...

Repair work begins on WACS

Openserve has issued an update on the cable repair situation that has bedevilled local Internet users for the past couple of weeks. "Contrary to what was initially advised, regarding the joint repair mission of the South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable...

SA’s banked pensions continue to outperform

Private pensions in South Africa continue to outdo take-home pay. In the last six and a half years, real private pensions increased by 21%, resulting in the average private pensioner being 18% better off. This is remarkable when compared to BankservAfrica's Take-home...

International brands weather SA retail storm

As South African retail faces an increasingly tough economic climate, international brands persevere despite these challenges. Decathlon, a French sporting goods retailer is the latest international brand set to increase its footprint on SA soil. With over 1 500...

Smartphone shipments slump in Q4

The worldwide smartphone market failed to sustain its growth momentum in the fourth quarter, causing shipments for the full year of 2019 to decline by 2,2%compared to 2018, according to preliminary research results from IHS Markit. Shipments totaled 1,38-billion units...

Where to for the SA economy?

Kathy Gibson is at IDC Directions 2020 in Sandton - Is South Africa running out of time to turn its economy around? It may well be at the point of do or die right now. Things are tough, says Gina Schoeman, director, economist and head of research at Citibank South...

What’s the biggest threat to your business?

Business interruption catapulted from fifth position in last year's Allianz Risk Barometer (23% of responses) to the top business risk (31% of responses) in Africa and the Middle East this year as larger and more complex business interruption (BI) losses continues...

Smartphone sales set for 3% growth in 2020

Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users are on track to reach 1,57-billion units in 2020, an increase of 3% year over year, according to Gartner. In 2019, worldwide smartphone sales declined 2%, the first time since 2008 that the global smartphone market...

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