WEDNESDAY, 21 JANUARY 2026, 02:27
As farmers globally grapple with unprecedented economic, geopolitical, and environmental pressures; the agricultural sector faces a continued contraction.
Stable electricity supply and an enabling macroeconomic environment have laid the groundwork for the sector’s continued growth in 2026.
Behavioural cyber resilience is the ability of your people to make secure decisions consistently, especially when conditions are messy, says Tony Christodoulou, founder and CIO/CISO at Cyber Dexterity.
AI research labs are becoming the primary source for new foundational models and infrastructure optimisation innovations.
By proactively managing core functions, an outsourced partner prevents small issues from escalating into business-disrupting crises.
Independent accreditation, cloud-specific safeguards and a refreshed site set the tone for 2026.
AI isn’t a silver bullet, but it is a powerful tool when used with purpose, says Streicher Stegmann, executive at BBD.
Fast, predictable networks become an enabler of how teams want to work and how spaces need to evolve.
The growing frequency and sophistication of threats have led to a surge in material cyber attacks.
Earth’s satellite will be visible in conjunction with the ringed planet as twilight gives way to darkness
A slender crescent moon slides past Saturn this week, offering a rewarding conjunction. It will be the perfect way to start your evening, a little quiet contemplation of the night sky as the evening twilight gives way to full darkness.
The chart shows the view looking south-west from London...
The Information Regulator says several unsolicited direct marketing matters have been escalated to its Enforcement Committee for consideration.
Severe weather conditions led to deadly floods across parts of the country in recent weeks.
This week Noema magazine published a 7,000-word exploration of our modern “Mythology Of Conscious AI” written by a neuroscience professor who directs the University of Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science:The very idea of conscious AI rests on the assumption that consciousness is a matter of computation. More specifically, that implementing the right kind of computation, or information...
Three South African banks who signed Home Affairs’ new partnership model for smart ID services have provided an update on their rollouts.
The 2026 crypto presale season is heating up, and investors are on the lookout for early-stage tokens that can outperform a choppy market. While Bitcoin and top altcoins like ETH, SOL, and XRP struggle to hold momentum, attention is shifting fast toward low-cap opportunities with clearer upside. As volatility squeezes large caps, crypto presales are […]
“Astronomers are preparing to capture a movie of a supermassive black hole in action for the first time,” reports the Guardian:The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will track the colossal black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy throughout March and April with the aim of capturing footage of the swirling disc that traces out the edge of the event horizon, the point beyond which no light or...
A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster, residents’ fears about tsunamis, earthquakes and evacuation plans remain
The activity around the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is reaching its peak: workers remove earth to expand the width of a main road, while lorries arrive at its heavily guarded entrance. A long perimeter...
Porsche made an announcement Friday. In Europe they sold more electrified Porsches last year than pure combustion-engined models, reports Electrek:in Europe, a majority (57.9%) of Porsche’s deliveries were plug-ins, with 1/3 of its European sales being fully electric. For models that have no fully electric version but do have a PHEV (Cayenne and Panamera), the plug-in hybrid version dominated...
As crypto wealth continues to grow, criminals are mixing sophisticated hacks with deception, and in some cases, real life violence.
U.S. college graduates “have historically found jobs more quickly than people with only a high school degree,” writes Bloomberg. “But that advantage is becoming a thing of the past, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.””Recently, the job-finding rate for young college-educated workers has declined to be roughly in line with the rate for young...
Last week a University of Arizona astronomy professor “watched anxiously…as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.” In 2018 NASA had approached Daniel Apai to help build the telescope, which he says will “shatter a barrier — to understand and remove a source of noise in the data — that limits our ability to study small exoplanets...