In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
Facebook’s new feature will turn it into a digital shopping mall
In its never-ending quest to connect the world and make loads of cash doing it, Facebook has today announced a new shopping advertising format…
Two-factor authentication is now live on Instagram
Keeping pace with its contemporaries, Instagram now supports two-factor authentication. The system “adds an extra layer of security to your Instagram account by requiring…
Mars Curiosity Rover is injured with no one around to fix it
It’s a sad lonely world for a space craft. You’re sent deep into space beyond foreign worlds and forced to survive with little to…
Cape Town wants you to work from home (or take a bus) to reduce congestion
The City of Cape Town would much prefer you working from home, or thinking twice about those nine-to-five slogs. This after the City revealed…
Q&A: social media played an integral role during Madagascar’s Cyclone Enawo disaster
Cyclone Enawo might be a distant memory for some, but for those in Madagascar, the strife has only just begun. It was the most…
Uber’s selfie security system arrives in South Africa
Transportation service Uber might’ve changed the way many travel about in South Africa, but it’s also changing the way we use selfies. The company…
RIP Joe Mafela: Chicken Licken ad from 1996 trends on YouTube
Beloved South African actor Joe Mafela died this weekend aged 75. According to sources, Mafela succumbed to injuries sustained by a car accident in…
YouTube is killing annotations, and the community isn’t well pleased
Thanks to internet users’ gradual but constant move to mobile, YouTube is killing its video annotations editing tool. The tool, which launched in 2008,…
Lancewood cheeses Facebook Messenger bots to bring you novel recipes
Humans have been sending other humans emoji for thousands of years now, so it’s only right that the system should be used by brands….
Hout Bay fires: ravaged Imizamo Yethu photographed on Instagram, Twitter
It seems that Cape Town has been hot, dry, and on fire for much of the summer. The latest blaze however has inconvenienced more…
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