Huawei successfully launched its All-Optical Intelligent home showcase on the sidelines of the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town. Powered by Huawei’s latest Fiber…
Mozilla Firefox’s ‘Facebook Container’ addon keeps Facebook to itself
Non-profit and creator of the Firefox web browser Mozilla this week announced a new addon that will separate your Facebook life from the rest…
Google Maps is now available in isiZulu, Afrikaans and Swahili
Mountain View internet tech Google has added 39 more languages to its Google Maps product “spoken by an estimated 1.25-billion people worldwide.” For Africans…
‘Offensive language’ may get you banned from Microsoft’s Skype, Xbox Live
From 1 May 2018, using “offensive language” on Microsoft’s online services could get you banned, this after the company updated its Services Agreement. Although…
Facebook’s ‘local news’ timeline tweak is now live globally
Facebook wants you to forget about its woes just for a moment, and remind everyone that people do in fact still use it. Notably,…
Spotify thinks it’ll have 208m users by the end of 2018
Just days ahead of its IPO, Swedish music streaming company Spotify has published its first ever guidance document for prospective investors and anyone who…
Cape Town dam report: surface storage dips below 200 000 ML
Cape Town has just reached another notable #DayZero milestone: total surface storage within its six largest dams has now dipped below the 200 000…
South Africa, you can now tip your Uber driver
Feeling bad about not tipping your Uber driver for making your day? If saying “thanks” is just too cold for you, from today, riders…
How to download your Facebook data (and why you should)
It’s the F-word you’ve been hearing an awful lot of this week, and its one everyone should be using. Yes, Facebook. Please forgive me…
Facebook ‘clarifies’ creepy call, text logging claims
After the Cambridge Analytica scandal piqued public panic last week, Facebook is again coming under fire for another user data issue. After the above…
Instagram kills its auto refreshing timeline, tweaks algorithm
So it seems that you can indeed teach old advertising-laden dogs new tricks. Instagram, after years of users complaining about its algorithmic feed, is…
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