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The COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world many things, not least of which is the fact that many of our…

Today more than half of the world’s population is connected to the internet. In Africa, there are over 590 million…

The EU’s Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) – introduced along with its more famous cousin MiFID II in 2014 –…

The system is down. It’s a phrase that’s so common in the South African lexicon that it tends to elicit…

Email is dead. If I’d believed that phrase any of the countless times I’ve heard it since 2010, I probably…

Have you looked at the international rankings of the world’s happiest countries lately? Measuring a country’s subjective levels of happiness…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced the first six African countries that will receive technology to produce messenger RNA…

Last year saw an unprecedented rate of change in the financial sector, with huge growth in the use of digital…

As the world moves towards an increasingly digital future, expanded connectivity infrastructure has become a defining feature of a modern…

A US body has launched a legal challenge to Vizio, a TV manufacturer, for failing to provide the source code…

Digital isn’t the future, it’s the now, and it holds the potential to play a key role in transforming the…

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the rate of technological change presents a unique challenge for CFOs who have the…

The U.S. has been warning for weeks about the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine, and threatening retaliation if it does.…

Insurance has been a fertile proving ground for analytics over many years. Underwriters have long used models to improve forecasting…

As historians, we have both been immersed for many years in trying to understand and write about South Africa’s complex,…

What feels like the proverbial ‘splinter in the brain’ for me about the COVID-19 pandemic is how far and yet…

As we settle into 2022, big shifts are expected with emerging technologies such as edge, 5G and data management broadening the technology ecosystem like…

News emerged overnight of the potential theft of more than US$326 million (A$457.7 million) of Ethereum tokens from a blockchain…

For children suffering from rare diseases, it usually takes years to receive a diagnosis. This “diagnostic odyssey” is filled with…

Read enough about Bitcoin, and you’ll inevitably come across people who refer to the cryptocurrency as a religion. Bloomberg’s Lorcan…

There can be little doubt that the past two years have been among the most challenging South African insurers have…

Since its launch on Christmas day, astronomers have eagerly followed the complex deployment and unfurling of NASA’s James Webb Space…

The two most successful coronavirus vaccines developed in the U.S. – the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines – are both mRNA…

South African space science had a big day on 13 January 2022. The Cape Peninsula University of Technology, based in…

Microsoft announced on Jan. 18, 2022, its intention to purchase video game giant Activision Blizzard. The company, publisher of top-selling…