Month: October 2016

After the Paralympics comes the Cybathlon, where disabled athletes use bionics to compete.

Merrill Lynch South Africa funds R4 million and Royal Bafokeng R1 million

Blockchain-based authentication systems are based on irrefutable identity verification, using digital signatures based on public key cryptography.

Driverless cars are the future, right? Wait. While things would be simple if our roads were 100% driverless, getting there is anything but. And planning for roads shared by robots and humans is hard.

Some of our metros are already using or thinking about using Internet-of-Things (IoT) architecture to create machine-to-machine (M2M) networks that allow devices – the ‘things’ in the IoT – to gather, share and analyse data about the state of city infrastructure.

A recent massive distributed denial-of-service attack by compromised Internet of Things devices highlights a growing cyber security threat.

A consequence of this type of “me too” driver for products by the tech companies is that consumers can end up with devices that never really develop in the way that the companies promised in their marketing and worse, the devices are often discontinued after a relatively short amount of time meaning that they become unsupported.

Vox launches national long distance fibre project: First stop for long distance fibre initiative is Richards Bay

Vodacom has been providing accessible products and services to customers with disabilities since 2004.

Peach Payments, a fintech startup that makes customer payments to online merchants seamless and secure, is now processing more than…