How an app is helping to collect genetic data in Ethiopia and Ghana
Aug 28, 2018 16:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Genetic technologies are poised to change the world. Want to eradicate a human disease such as cystic fibrosis or improve a persons ability to run impossible distances or lift unimaginable weights? This may be possible in...
Social media's not all bad – it's saving lives in disaster zones
Aug 28, 2018 15:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Social media was recently credited with reducing the number of casualties caused by air strikes in the Syrian civil war. The early warning system, developed by tech startup Hala Systems, uses remote sensors to detect...
The ruthless pursuit of online 'likes' gives you nothing
Aug 28, 2018 12:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Life
Imagine a popular social media channel that did not display the number of likes, mentions, impressions, followers, engagements or any other metric to show how many times ones content has been viewed, by whom and when. A...
Aug 28, 2018 08:40 am UTC| Technology
Samsung may be flattening the competitive industry of smartphones by making the next generations most-talked-about feature become a standard inclusion even in their upcoming base smartphone models In a report by Forbes,...
It's time for governments to help their citizens deal with cybersecurity
Aug 27, 2018 15:34 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Cyber criminals are extremely active across the globe and, unfortunately, also very successful. In Africa, too, businesses are losing billions to cybercrime. A quick Internet search shows that governments in the...
The digital divide: small, social programs can help get seniors online
Aug 27, 2018 15:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
In Australia, use of the internet is almost universal. At last count, 86% of the population was digitally connected. Despite the continuing stereotype that many older people are not technologically savvy, or that they...
Microsoft, Tech Mahindra collaborate to curb spam calls menace in India using blockchain
Aug 27, 2018 10:04 am UTC| Digital Currency Technology
Tech Mahindra is collaborating with Microsoft to build a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based solution to address Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC) conforming to the regulations issued by the Telecom...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects