BDO Cyber Lab, a top-tier global network providing advisory services, and Darktrace, a leader in autonomous cyber defence, have today reaffirmed their strategic partnership. This collaboration is built on a shared commitment to combat the evolving landscape of cyber threats using cutting-edge AI technology and expert risk mitigation strategies. Together, they offer a robust value […]

The wealth of emerging evidence suggest that physics may be on the brink of something big

Modern physics deals with some truly mind-boggling extremes of scale. Cosmology reveals the Earth as a tiny dot amid an observable universe that is a staggering 93bn light years across. Meanwhile, today’s particle colliders are exploring a microcosmic world billions of times smaller than the smallest...

SEACOM, Africa’s telecommunications and managed services provider, today announced the launch of its all-new low earth orbit (LEO) satellite service. Now available to SEACOM enterprise clients, the service marks an evolutionary shift in connectivity in South Africa and complements existing terrestrial broadband infrastructure and technologies. The launch comes after a two-year process of...

New research reveals that listing your grievances on a piece of paper, then throwing them away may make you less angry. So I gave it a try …

A lifetime enveloped in a benign, insulating cloud of oestrogen left me ill-prepared to be this nakedly, shockingly angry as it ebbs away in perimenopause. It is occasionally exhilarating, but mainly awful, being furious about so many things: the...

Documentary reveals the cost to Nepalese villagers of harvesting a supposed aphrodisiac that sells for more than gold in China

Every year, thousands of Nepalese villagers make their way to the Himalayan foothills in search of a fungus called yarsagumba. Known for its aphrodisiac properties, the elusive substance sells in China for a price higher than gold. Following Lalita, a young mother among...

 As the election approaches, we’ll activate a South Africa-specific Elections Operations Centre to identify potential threats and put mitigations in place in real time. We have the largest fact-checking network of any platform with partners in South Africa fact checking in English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Sotho and Setswana. We have been working directly with the Electoral […]

According to a research project conducted by the Elvey Group (a company in the Hudaco group of companies)[1], the current value of the South Africa security technology market is R5.84 billion, with a constant growth indicated prior to COVID-19, and then again from 2021. Confidence in the sector is apparent in the record number of […]

The withdrawal last week of proposed new visa regulations that would have eased the way for skilled workers to come to South Africa was an inadvertent illustration of how little public consultations matter in many parts of government. The regulations were withdrawn because the minister of home affairs had inadvertently published them a day before […]

Annual event promises between five and 20 meteors an hour with a few rare cases becoming much brighter ‘fireballs’

The Lyrids are a meteor shower that derive from the tail of the comet Thatcher.

Discovered by AE Thatcher in 1861, the comet is on a 422-year orbit of the sun and will not be returning to the inner solar system until 2283. Every year between 15 and 29 April, the Earth encounters...

Archaeologists and astrologers to study Wiltshire site’s lesser understood connection to the moon

The rising and setting of the sun at Stonehenge, especially during the summer and winter solstices, continues to evoke joy, fascination and religious devotion.

Now a project has been launched to delve into the lesser understood links that may exist between the monument and the moon during a...

NHS waiting list | Spineless politicians | Anger management

At first I was pleasantly surprised when asked, in my NHS app, whether I still wanted to remain on a waiting list for a minor operation (Almost 10 million people in England could be on NHS waiting list, 3 April). I now wonder whether this was more about the government’s method of reducing waiting lists rather than my medical need.Nick...

What seems like a shortcut to understanding can lead you down a path of confusion and despair. There’s no substitute for professional help

The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work

In the age of information overload, where a world of knowledge lies just a click away, the temptation to self-diagnose mental health conditions has become an...

It’s the internal voice whose strict, unbending standards can make us miserable. But tuning in to it can change everything

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When I first became her patient, I heard everything my therapist said as a criticism. Almost every word that came out of her mouth, I received as a telling off, a character assassination or a low...

The tree all but vanished in the 1970s. Now, thanks to two amateur nature lovers, it may soon grace our landscapes again

Constable painted them. Shakespeare wrote of them. And Francis Drake sailed the world in a ship made from them. English elms were a mainstay of England’s landscape and culture – until they all but disappeared to Dutch elm disease in the 1970s.

Since that devastation, when 25m...

Internet speeds have improved significantly in South Africa, but most people won’t be able to notice the difference.

Manage your mum’s care from a distance. Don’t get sucked into her orbit

The question My father was violent and my mother emotionally fragile. I took on a parental role from the age of around 11, trying to manage my dad’s moods, keep my mum’s spirits up and take care of my younger brother. Mum often leaned on me and I felt responsible for her stability. We were often punished in cruel ways. I...

The material, discovered in 2004, was meant to be revolutionary. But only now is the technology coming of age

Twenty years ago, ­scientists announced they had created a new miracle material that was going to transform our lives. They called it graphene.

Consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexa­gonal pattern, it is one of the strongest materials ever made and, for good...

Scientists say an overreliance on sight and sound is having a detrimental effect on people’s wellbeing and that our devices should deliver a multisensory experience

“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothing yet.” So went the first line of audible dialogue in a feature film, 1927’s The Jazz Singer. It was one of the first times that mass media had conveyed the sight and sound of a...

Marina Hyde with her take on Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s surreal US presidential bid (1m23s); Emine Saner meets the sociopath who learned to behave – and found happiness (8m05s); why Gen Z has fallen in love with Sex and the City (24m45s); and do our political opponents really hate us? (29m54s).

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