I recently had a strange urge to go rummaging through my gaming treasure chest. I had this unquenchable want to play a classic title from my past. After quite some digging, and a few nostalgic moments, I finally found it. As I started playing the old quirky puzzle-adventure game (which features on this list) one thing immediately became apparent. It was the first time in ages I felt like I was truly being challenged.Read more on Gearburn.

Afrimakers is the brainchild of ex-Google engineer and founder of HacKIDemia, Stefania Druga. The initiative that has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo with the aim to inspire and encourage young participants in Africa to help solve greater social problems.By focusing more on hands-on learning, it encourages and inspires experimentation by giving tech hubs across Africa Maker boxes containing things such as an Arduino, a Raspberry Pi, a Makey-Makey and other exciting tools.Read more on Ventureburn.

More than two-million accounts for users of popular online services including Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and Yahoo have been compromised after malware captured, among other things, their login credentials.According to online security specialists Trustwave, a new fork of the Pony malware -- stronger than previous iterations -- has helped hackers steal millions of passwords over the past couple of weeks.While the malware has predominantly targeted well-known western sites such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Twitter and LinkedIn, it's also gone ...

Africa is an important market for everybody. Facebook is well aware of this and ready to jump abroad the great innovation train blazing through the continent.Currently towering the world's stage, Facebook has become synonymous with how we as a society connect with each other. On the heels of defining its business model, deciding that it wants to be a utility and doling out millions and a billion for other startups, everyone's favourite social network is finally ready to play ...

Leading on from my previous article around why the understanding Internet of Things (IoT) is vital do digital success, one of the biggest and fastest industries to adopt the IoT will be healthcare.The way in which wearables can be foreseen to significantly impact healthcare is by designing products for individual use where they become customizable and are all about tracking your own data, and using tech as your health advocate.Tracking medicine Taking a pill on a day-to-day basis ...

Being an entrepreneur anywhere in the world is daunting but the technology sector in Africa presents its own distinct challenges. Yet, despite the limited reliability of the network or the lack of available funding and training, men and women across the continent are risking their own money to grow Africa’s economies.I have worked in eight countries across Africa, and everywhere I go, I meet young people, like myself, posing difficult questions and working on innovative solutions.Read more on Ventureburn.

The day my iPhone left me, it rained. I appreciated the dramatic emphasis provided by the storm outside as I stood clutching the phone’s chamfered edges and postponing the moment I had to hand it over. I tried not to be an incarnation of the first world problems meme as I swapped out the SIM card, clicked its tiny plastic edges into an adapter and slotted it into its new home. I squeezed the Z10’s power button and it came ...