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  Millions of LG Customers Can Now Connect With and Learn From The World’s Best in the Comfort of their Home via webOS   This month, LG Smart TV owners worldwide gain access to MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world’s best across a wide range of subjects, allowing customers to access the platform directly on the big screen at home.   Available in LG’s Content Store on LG Smart TVs running webOS 4.0 (2018 TVs) up to the newly launched 2023 TVs, the MasterClass app can be easily accessed by voice command and is featured on Life’s Good Hub.   MasterClass subscribers will be able to get inspired from more than  180 instructors  and classes across various categories, such as Arts & Entertainment, Business, Design & Style, Sports & Gaming and Writing, which means there is a class for almost every need and interest. Viewers can step into food truck “godfather’s”  Roy Choi’s  kitchen, design their career with...

  At the end of February this year, Stats SA published South Africa’s latest  unemployment rate which now sits at 32.7% , one of the highest in the world. And while this figure may have dropped slightly in recent months, there is still a high unemployment rate among the youth. According to Stats SA, 43.4% of people between the ages of 15 and 34 are unemployed – a concerning amount given that this age range makes up  more than half of the country’s employable workforce . The competition in today’s job market is tough and it’s through internship programmes that organisations can make a difference among South Africa’s youth. Rectron’s Internship and Learnership Programme is one example of how one company is doing its part in building competitive skills and sustainable careers. “At Rectron, we pride ourselves on improving the lives of people,” says Lebogang Dire, Talent Acquisition Specialist at Rectron. “Our internship programme is one of the initiatives aimed at developing ...

Vodacom has announced the first  installment of its popular #CodeLikeAGirl programme for 2023. The 4-day workshop, designed to teach young women critical ICT skills takes place from the 27 th  to the 30 th  of March 2023 targeting 600 girls to join. Sessions are held across Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, and North West provinces. The #CodeLikeAGirl programme is aimed at closing the gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields by inspiring more girls to explore careers that involve coding. Since its inception, Vodacom has trained over 4000 girls through this programme, helping them unlock their passion for coding. Often referred to as the jobs of the future, it is vital that more girls enter STEM fields and play a role in driving innovation, social wellbeing, inclusive growth, and sustainable development. In South Africa fewer than  13%  of female graduates leave university with STEM qualifications. Even more concerning, of the sma...

  In the most recent edition of its  annual Security Report , Check Point Software Technologies looked back on a tumultuous year in cybersecurity, with the boundaries between state cyber-operations and hacktivism becoming blurred as nation states act with a degree of anonymity without retaliation.  In this article, Sergey Shykevich, Threat Intelligence Group Manager at Check Point Software, looks at the rise of a new type of hacktivism and the impact of geopolitical relations on the current threat landscape.  Hacktivism has traditionally been associated with loosely managed entities such as Anonymous. These decentralized and unstructured groups are typically made up of individuals cooperating in support of a variety of agendas and many groups have an open-door policy for recruitment. However, over the last year, and following developments in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the hacktivist ecosystem has  matured , in both origins of source and motivations. Hacktiv...