F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Last week in trailers: Annihilation, South Africa’s Catching Feelings, David Bowie doc & more
It’s not a good time to release trailers: Star Wars: The Last Jedi just came out, it’s almost Christmas, and everyone is hyper-focussed on taking a much-needed…
Lens Studio lets anyone create lenses for Snapchat
Snap’s latest desktop app Lens Studio lets anyone from students to full-time developers create their own lenses for Snapchat and its users. The app…
Facebook sees you when you’re creeping, rewards you with repeat content
Will Facebook ever stop trying to be the absolute creepiest it can be? Probably not. In a small update issued to the News Feed this…
Stars Wars: The Last Jedi: frenetic, powerful, a joy to behold
Stars Wars: The Last Jedi does not start well. The exposition plods, the editing jars, and the dialogue feels unnatural. Just as emotional moments…
Messenger doubled its real-time video chats to 17b in 2017
Facebook Messenger has had a pretty interesting 2017, despite some embarrassing mistakes like that Stories clone “Day” no one used. According to the company,…
South Africans were asking Google about Dumi Masilela and bitcoin in 2017
Google has released its year in search, and while the global results are interesting (Cash Me Outside was the top-searched meme, sadly), South Africans had…
SA’s box office: There’s no Justice Fatigue
It’s Justice League‘s last week at the top of South Africa’s box office (Star Wars: The Last Jedi is out this Friday) and what a time…
#RhodesWar: Expulsion of Rhodes students ignites online outrage
#RhodesWar, an online campaign supporting expelled Rhodes University students, was trending in the top spot on Twitter this morning as many took to the…
Netflix users watched 1 billion hours of content a week in 2017
Netflix doesn’t like giving out numbers — we still don’t know exactly how many South Africans are on the platform, for example. But the company…
Bullied Keaton Jones went viral, then Twitter learned of his racist family
A young boy named Keaton Jones went viral yesterday after a video of him discussing being bullied gained the attention of A-list celebrities — but…
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