by Dianne Bayley | Jan 15, 2022 | Innovation
Adapted from Jake Shepherd, Synthesis Founder & Director talk, ‘What AI Teaches Us About Being Human’. There are few books that alter the way you see the world after you’ve read them. Homo Deus is one of these books and in it the author Yuval Harari...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 12, 2022 | Sustainability
Employing over half the workforce, driving significant growth in the private sector, and representing some 98% of all businesses, SMEs are the lifeblood of the South African economy. Experts speculate that Digital Transformation, COVID-19 awareness, shifting...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 10, 2022 | Security and Legal
In 2021, Kaspersky’s detection systems discovered 380 000 malicious files per day, indicating a 5,7% increase compared to 2020. This growth correlates with the continuous rise in the number of devices used worldwide, among other factors, and is one of the trends found...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 10, 2022 | Report-back
CES 2022 concluded on Friday, following a week filled with thousands of product debuts from more than 2 300 exhibiting companies from around the world, including more than 800 startups, launched products featuring innovation across artificial intelligence, automotive...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 10, 2022 | Workplace 2020
Although many of us had hoped we would have seen the back of the COVID-19 pandemic by 2022, we enter the New Year with a fourth wave of infection still underway, writes Pieter Bensch, Executive Vice-President, Africa, Middle East, Asia and Australia at Sage. Even when...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 8, 2022 | Sustainability
Bitcoin will be adopted as legal tender in three more countries in 2022, predicts Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group. His prediction follows a forecast made on Sunday by Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador who tweeted a series of predictions about bitcoin to his...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 7, 2022 | Security and Legal
For years, operational technology (OT) systems have been working to control everything from factories to transportation networks to utilities, writes By Rick Peters, CISO Operational Technology North America at Fortinet. But the reality is that most citizens...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 6, 2022 | Security and Legal
Passwords extinct? How did we get there? The answer is simple: biometrics and digital certificates, writes Chris Buchanan, client solutions director of Dell Technologies South Africa. Imagine it’s October 2050 and a school class is on a Cybersecurity Awareness Month...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 5, 2022 | Innovation
The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) urges people to support South Africa’s scientific community, following reports that leading scientists and researchers have come under attack from members of the public. With over 5-million deaths due Covid-19 globally,...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 3, 2022 | Innovation
China and the US continue to dominate the App Store market in the third quarter of 2021. According to the latest figures presented by SafeBettingSites.com, China and the US saw 1,93-billion and 1,86-billion downloads respectively. There was a switch in the top two...
