As cloud storage becomes more common, data security is an increasing concern. Companies and schools have been increasing their use of services like Google Drive for some time, and lots of individual users also store
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As bitcoin continues its roller-coaster ride, taxpayers need to brace themselves for heightened scrutiny of their declarations in relation to cryptocurrency gains. The South African Revenue Service has confirmed that it will clarify
In the social and political saga surrounding the question of network neutrality, what is often overlooked is the data war going on behind the scenes. The real fuel behind the debate is the enormous volume of data we generate
Critics of bitcoin often argue that it’s useless as a means of payment, one of the key elements of any successful currency. That’s not quite right, and likely to become less so. First, a reminder on how bitcoin works. If I want to send someone
Richemont’s decision to plough €2.7bn into e-commerce by buying out Yoox Net-a-Porter is a wake-up call to sceptics who thought consumers would never buy US$5 000 Cartier necklaces and $50 000 Vacheron
There’s a compelling reason to consider what’s going on with cryptocurrencies a purely speculative boom-and-bust roller-coaster: over a three-month period, the prices of all the top coins and tokens are rather strongly correlated
The threat of large-scale cyberattacks and a “deteriorating geopolitical landscape” since the election of US President Donald Trump have jumped to the top of the global elite’s list of concerns, the World Economic
Bitcoin’s recent wobbles have given fresh urgency to a question that’s gripped market observers for much of the past year: will the cryptocurrency go down as one of history’s most infamous bubbles, alongside tulip mania
If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is sincere in a recent post about gradually taking the media element out of “social media”, he’s striking a powerful blow for tech self-regulation, as well as preparing to pay a heavy price for
Prime numbers are more than just numbers that can only be divided by themselves and one. They are a mathematical mystery, the secrets of which mathematicians have been trying to uncover ever since Euclid proved that