Just a few days ago, Garmin GRMN +3.7% chalked up a worldwide service outage to a maintenance issue. Today, the company cleared the air. A ransomware attack was the real culprit. Indeed, early reporting around the incident leaned toward a cyberattack being the cause. There were plenty of clues, like the sudden onset and extended duration of the outage.…
Widescale testing began Monday in the United States on two potential COVID-19 vaccines to determine their safety and effectiveness. A volunteer in Savannah, Georgia early Monday morning received the first dose of an experimental vaccine manufactured by U.S.-based biotech firm Moderna and developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The volunteer is the first…
New research demonstrates for the first time that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to train computers to recognise individual birds, a task humans are unable to do. The research is published in the British Ecological Society journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution. “We show that computers can consistently recognise dozens of individual birds, even though we cannot…
Topanama village, in Limpopo’s Mopani District, has been without water for the past seven months. Residents, at their wits end, have started drinking water from a local canal, and community leaders fear a diarrhoea outbreak on top of the Covid-19 pandemic. “We see coronavirus cases piling up daily, and the need for adequate water can’t be…
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If your business is not advertising online, or has not adopted a digital-first approach to marketing, the time to change is now. This was the message from Google’s Marketing Insights team, who recently published a report on why companies need to digitally transform. While online advertising has been growing rapidly in recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has…
United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) (www.UBAgroup.com), the leading pan-African financial services institution, announced the appointments of Rokia Hacko, Chioma Mang, Chinedu Obeta, Bode Aregbesola, Kingsley Ulinfun and Usman Isiaka as chief executive officers of six of its 20 subsidiaries across Africa, subject to regulatory approvals. The new CEOs will drive the Group’s strategy and activities in…
“The moment you get a vaccine doesn’t mean you’re going to put your mask in the trash,” Baylor vaccine researcher Maria Elena Bottazzi told BI. Getting a coronavirus vaccine won’t necessarily mean an instant return to normal, a top vaccine developer told Business Insider. “The moment you get a vaccine doesn’t mean you’re going to put your…
São Paulo (CNN)In the corner of a COVID-19 ward in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a woman cleaning the mouth of an intubated patient carries an extraordinary hope for pretty much all of us. Slipping a mouthwash-soaked brush into an elderly woman’s mouth, at great personal daily risk, dentist Denise Abranches has something more than courage in…
Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso – Growing up in a community of farmers in northern Burkina Faso, KI, who prefers that his full name not be used for safety reasons, never wanted for much. His family ate what they sowed and bred enough cattle to feel financially secure. But now, for the first time in his life, the…