The rising demand for electronic payments is creating fundamental shifts across Africa and making significant inroads in promoting financial inclusion. A rapidly changing landscape and disruptions mean that incumbent banks need to take radical and concerted action to...

New data from Mimecast shows that South African organisations are increasingly under fire from the threat of phishing, ransomware and spoofing attacks, pushing cybersecurity to the top of corporate leaders' agenda. According to the Mimecast State of Email Security...

According to preliminary figures in the IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments in China stood at 98-million units in the second quarter of 2019, down 6% from the same period last year. This was better than expectations of an 9% contraction. "In only...

The Pretoria High Court has today set aside the 2017 and 2018 lion bone quotas, stating that these were both unlawful and unconstitutional, and that due process was not followed in the setting of these quotas. Before giving his judgement, Judge Jody Kollapen said the...

An artificial "tongue" which can taste subtle differences between drams of whisky could help cut down on the trade in counterfeit alcohol, scientists say. In a new paper published in the Royal Society of Chemistry's journal Nanoscale, Scottish engineers describe how...

More than one-third of South African women feel that that their gender and parental responsibilities are holding them back from advancing in their careers. This is one of the findings revealed by CareerJunction's latest gender survey, which explores gender issues...

Chatbots continue to be a hot topic among media, end users and vendor communities. This is no surprise, as chatbot technology - which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic human conversations - is beginning to mature and offer more sophisticated solutions. This...

In the second quarter of 2019, the total number of DDoS attacks grew by 18%, compared to the same period in 2018. Application-layer attacks, which are more difficult to organise and protect against, showed significant growth - increasing in quantity by a third (32%)...

IBM has announced a new blockchain network aimed at improving manual and cumbersome supply chain management. Supply chain management involves overseeing the flow of goods and services, such as tracking the movement and storage of raw materials, inventory, and finished...

Intel and Lenovo have announced a multiyear collaboration focused on the rapidly growing opportunity in the convergence of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) to help accelerate solutions for the world's most challenging problems....