AI misinformation is accelerating Africa’s risk landscape

As misinformation, cybercrime, health emergencies, civil unrest, extreme weather and infrastructure disruption become progressively interconnected across Africa, organisations are under growing pressure to distinguish fact from fiction before uncertainty escalates...

Business leaders bet big on robots, but few are ready

Robotics is no longer a bet on the future - it's a plan for the next five years – but according to new research from Intel, most organisations are moving faster than their operating models can support. The new study – The Robotics Readiness Gap - finds a stark...

Hubble solves merger mystery from Milky Way’s early years

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way galaxy in the earliest phases of its...

Crypto assets force tax systems to review their policies

The rapid rise of crypto assets is forcing tax systems to ponder if rules designed for a traditional economy can keep pace with technologies that are redefining how value is created, owned and exchanged, Professor Shaun Parsons has told attendees at a University of...

This is how much electricity it takes to mine bitcoin

According to an analysis by CryptoMonday it takes an estimated nine years of household-equivalent electricity consumption to mine one bitcoin. CryptoMonday CEO Jonathan Merry comments: "Conceptually, it doesn't seem like bitcoin mining should require enormous amounts...

Biometric ATMs extend banking services

FNB has launched a mini-ATM that uses biometrics as a means of consumer validation, a move the bank believes is a first for South Africa. The TouchPoint device functions as a self-service kiosk from which customers can conduct transactional banking such as...

Midsize companies lag in digitalisation

The top two business priorities for CIOs of midsize enterprises (MSEs) in 2018 are growth and digital transformation - but 57% of MSEs are not yet delivering digital initiatives, according to Gartner's 2018 CIO Agenda Survey. "Digitalisation has the benefit of...

SMEs are ready to embrace IoT

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are notoriously slow when it comes to adopting new technologies, but South African SMEs are about to do a U-turn in this regard, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). In fact, as many as 83% of decision-makers responding to a new...

How Cape Town desalination was fast-tracked

Multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy WSP has helped to fast-track development of the City of Cape Town's V&A desalination plant, feeding 2.0 megalitres of fresh water into the city's network per day. Located at the V&A Waterfront, the desalination plant...

Apple nudges closer to $1trn market cap

Apple is getting close to $1-trillion in market value, set to become the first company to hit that mark. Stock prices rose on fiscal 2018 results, which showed a 16% revenue increase. They were boosted further with the announcement that Warren Buffet's Berkshire...

Fake Telegram ICO sites scam users

Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered dozens of highly convincing fake websites claiming to be investment sites for an initial coin offering (ICO) by the Telegram messaging service. Many of these websites appear to belong to the same group. In one case alone, tens...

Jonas, Tshabalala join MTN board

Mcebisi Jonas has been appointed as an independent non-executive director for the MTN group. He is a former Deputy Finance Minister of the Government of South Africa who served from 2014 to 2017. Before his appointment to national government, Mcebisi played a...

Cell C launches free streaming on black

Over the next three months, Cell C is offering all customers free streaming on its entertainment platform black. This means Cell C customers can stream series, movies, music, kids' entertainment, sport, news, live TV channels and more without paying for data usage....

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