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…