Between 2015 and 2021, more than 1-million"right to be forgotten" requests were submitted to Google and Microsoft Bing, with half of the requests being from Western European countries. When the Covid-19 pandemic started, “right to be forgotten” cases rose by nearly...

A Kaspersky study has revealed that every third C-level executive globally (34%) struggles to speak about adopting new security solutions with their IT or IT security colleagues. For those surveyed in South Africa, this figure is 39%. Globally, however, many feel that...

The South African productivity puzzle is far from solved, with a massive amount of time and billions of rands still being lost to administrative tasks. This is among the findings from Sage's second annual Productivity Tracker, which investigates the amount of time...

Rand Merchant Investment Holding (RMI), through AlphaCode, has awarded entrepreneurial packages valued at R16-million to eight of South Africa's most promising financial services startups. All businesses are less than two years old and at least 51% owned by black...

A team of scientists from the University of Johannesburg (UJ), collaborating across theoretical and experimental physics and computer science, have developed and trained a new machine learning (ML) technique to predict and diagnose diseases such as lung cancer,...

The use of technology is crucial for financial services organisations with ambitions of prevailing in a highly contested market. This is the word from Barry Vorster, lead: HR technology and culture at PwC, who points out that sustainable productivity improvement in...

Kaspersky researchers detected 16,017 new ransomware modifications in the second quarter of 2019 - including ones belonging to eight new malware families. This is more than double the number of new samples detected a year ago, in Q2 2018 (7 620). The Kaspersky IT...

Location technology from what3words has been rolled out to emergency medical care provider ER24, enabling faster response times in case of an incident. Using a what3words address in an emergency gives callers a simple way to describe precisely where they need help,...

Jaguar Land Rover is developing next-generation head-up display technology that could beam realtime safety information in front of the driver, while allowing passengers to stream 3D movies direct from their seats. Engineers are working on a powerful new 3D head-up...

In Women's Month, the Ombudsman for Banking Services analysed its complaints to assess women's concerns. The office has received a total of 3 785 formal cases for the year to date, and only 31% of the complaints lodged in this period were from women. However, the...