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…
Uber’s #UberSUMMER Cape Town promo is now live
If you travel from point to point fairly frequently within the Cape Town CBD, the latest Uber summer campaign could be for you. The…
South Africa’s Orange Store is shutting down online
Update #2, 1 December, 9.11am: Orange also noted that its brick and mortar stores will also be shuttered, and will be “utilized for other…
Netflix movies, series are now available as offline downloads
Netflix users can now download films and movies to their mobile devices via the app, the streaming service announced. Eddy Wu, the company’s director of product…
Forget Trump: your cat can now own an eco-friendly White House
Although we do love technology here at Memeburn, we can’t turn our heads when a clever piece of simple design walks by. Especially if…
Vodacom reportedly down in north Johannesburg [Update]
Update #2, 30 November, 12pm: Vodacom has confirmed that the issue “has been resolved”. Update #1, 29 November, 5.30pm: Lexi Ball, Vodacom media relations…
US consumers blow $3.34bn on Black Friday, break mobile shopping record
It was an extremely healthy Black Friday for US retailers according to new data released by Adobe. The company this week published its 2016…
Reddit CEO tampered with comments on Donald Trump subreddit
Social aggregation site Reddit is known as a democratic platform. There are moderators, but they’re generally called into action only when subreddit rules are…
Here’s what’s possible with Tesla, SolarCity technology
Is it possible to power an entire island using nothing but the sun? Well, yes. Just ask Tesla and SolarCity. After the two companies’…
Oracle buys DNS services provider Dyn
Enterprise services company Oracle has purchased DNS and internet services provider Dyn. The financial details of the purchase was not made public, but former…
Make black and white photos blush again with this AI-powered tool
Do you have a black and white photograph you just wished was in full colour? Well, this clever neural network tool from Waseda University…
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