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...

Decline in health of SA businesses slows

The easing of lockdown restrictions helped ease the pace of decline in businesses' health, according to new insight from Experian South Africa. Experian's quarterly Business Debt Index (BDI) for quarter four (Q4) 2020 reflects the level of health of businesses in the...

Telcos gear up to secure new wave of 5G networks

Telcos will implement a wide array of measures in 2021 to secure the next wave of 5G connectivity, according to a global survey of service provider employees by Heavy Reading and F5 Networks. As operators begin to rollout standalone 5G networks, they are moving...

SA consumers happy with their cell phones

South Africans appear to be very satisfied with their mobile handsets, according to the latest South African Customer Satisfaction Index. More than 2 105 consumers were included in an independent survey which gave the brands an overall score of 77.2 out of 100. The data was collected between March and May 2015. Apple, Nokia and Samsung set the benchmark with scores of 82.7, 78.9 and 78.8 respectively, with Nokia and Samsung’s scores very close to one another. Blackberry scored below par at 70.6, despite improving its scores since last year.

Phishing is still a people problem

Phishing might be perpetuated via e-mail but it’s not an e-mail problem - it is a people problem. This is according to Richard Broeke, a security expert at Securicom, who says: “Phishing is on the rise. In fact, recent stats from a leading global cyber intelligence...

Big data to transform African development

IBM’s Africa research lab has partnered with RTI International to deploy big data analytics and cognitive technologies to help transform development approaches in Africa and around the world. In one of the first projects, IBM and RTI are developing and testing...

Kenya aids tourism with e-visa launch

The launch of the much-anticipated e-visa that serves 132 countries is seen as a much-needed push for the Kenyan travel and tourism industry, promising an end to the hassle associated with visa applications. Kenya has moved its visa application from the tedious and...

Medical research shines in NSTF Awards

The success of medical research in South Africa was celebrated at the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards, featuring in the emerging researcher, established researcher and lifetime contribution categories. The Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi...

Intel beats outlook in Q2

Intel has reported second quarter revenue of $13,2-billion. This is consistent with what was expected, while gross margin of 62,5% was slightly better than outlook. The Client Computing Group had revenue of $7,5-billion, up 2% sequentially and down 14% year-over-year....

Government update on nuclear procurement

The Department of Energy has released an update document on the controversial nuclear procurement programme. The following report was presented by Zizamele Mbambo, deputy director-general of nuclear energy: The National Development Plan, approved in 2012 enjoins us to...

Hosted services drive growth in cloud

The technological and economic benefits offered by cloud services are accelerating enterprise migration from on-premise IT infrastructure solutions to hosted alternatives. This is driving rapid growth in the European infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market. Cloud...

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