In 2008, a group of thieves stole $700 000 from Russia’s central bank the old-fashioned way: they infiltrated a processing centre, handcuffed a guard, and made off with the cash. These days, the criminal attacks
Author: Agency Staff
The constitutional court ordered South Africa’s welfare agency to extend Net1 UEPS Technologies’ contract to distribute grants to the poorest third of the nation’s people for a year to avoid a “potential catastrophe” and
Cape Town, the crown jewel of South Africa’s tourism industry, has 100 days before it runs out of water. After two years of the least rainfall on record, the average level of the six main dams that supply the city of 3,7m
President Jacob Zuma refused to take action against his welfare minister, saying there is no crisis in the nation’s social grants system even as the cabinet apologised for the “anxiety” caused
Samsung Electronics’ new Galaxy S8 will employ facial recognition technology for mobile payments within months of release, adding cutting-edge security to help the marquee device stand
Swatch Group said it’s developing an alternative to the iOS and Android operating systems for smartwatches as Switzerland’s largest maker of timepieces vies with Silicon Valley for control of
Elon Musk needs to raise at least US$1,1bn more to bring his more affordable Model 3 to market. His believers, along with investors who buy into the vision of Tesla, could hardly be happier. After burning through cash in late 2016 and warning
It was June 2013, and US law enforcement thought they were finally getting their hands on a slippery target: Russian hacker Alexsey Belan, indicted in Nevada and California for computer intrusions at three US e-commerce companies, had been
At the helicopter industry’s largest trade show last week, dozens of aircraft were parked over seven acres of Dallas, Texas convention centre space. Yet only one generated a constant crowd as more than a thousand people gathered
Israel’s emergence as a centre for automotive technology got a vote of confidence on Monday when Intel said it would pay US$15bn for Mobileye, a Jerusalem-based maker of chips and software for driverless cars. It will be the largest takeover of an Israeli