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You could soon control Spotify on iOS through Apple’s Siri

A report by The Information on Tuesday revealed that Apple may soon allow Spotify users to access the music streaming app via Siri. According…

Apple TV+ drops dramatic teaser for upcoming series The Morning Show

Apple on Monday dropped the first teaser trailer for The Morning Show, an upcoming series for its Apple TV+ streaming service. The show, which…

3 oddly meaningful animated series on Netflix you should watch

There’s no arguing with the fact that some animated movies have the knack of hitting you straight in the feels. Anything made by the…

Game of Thrones showrunners sign $200m deal with Netflix

The famed Game of Thrones series creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss have left HBO and moved to Netflix in a $200 million movie…

CBS’s Star Trek: Picard is getting host of prequel book material

Once again, the world is getting even more Star Trek, this time in the form of two written prequel series about character Jean-Luc Picard’s…

Doctor Who will stream exclusively on HBO Max in 2020

WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service HBO Max will be the exclusive home of Doctor Who when the platform launches next year, a report by Variety revealed…

Lollapalooza music festival will stream live on YouTube this weekend. Watch it here

YouTube will live stream “the biggest performances” from the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago all weekend, the company announced on Wednesday. The four-day event,…

Netflix wants to track smartphone users’ ‘physical activity’ in new test

Netflix is asking users if it can track their devices’ physical activity information, according to users on Twitter and a report by The Next…

Spotify now has more than 230m users worldwide, 108m paid subscribers

Spotify on Wednesday released is Q2 earnings report for 2019 and it looks like more people around the world are choosing the service as…

What to watch on Netflix and Showmax in South Africa in August

New month, new shows, seasons and movies to stream on Showmax and Netflix. But what is there to watch exactly? We’ve done all the…

Elon Musk says Netflix and YouTube are coming to Teslas

“Netflix and drive” might become a thing now that Elon Musk revealed upcoming support for the streaming service and YouTube on his Tesla vehicles….

You can now watch Netflix in India for just R40 a month

India now has a Netflix subscription plan for mobile-only single-device streaming, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tier, which will cost just Rs…

6 movies and series trailers from San Diego Comic-Con 2019

Marvel might have stolen the show at the San Diego Comic-Con this year, but it wasn’t the only company to give us all a…

The Eternals, Mighty Thor and everything else planned for MCU phase four

The 11-movie long third phase of Marvel’s cinematic universe (MCU) came to an end with Spider-Man Far From Home in June, making way for…

HBO drops the first season trailer for Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

HBO is bringing another best selling fantasy book series to life, this time with Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. The content company dropped…

130k people cancelled Netflix in the US after price increases

It seems the price hikes Netflix imposed in some countries earlier this year have come back to bite, the company’s Q2 earnings report revealed…

Apple is planning to produce its own podcasts, report reveals

Apple is planning to fund its very own podcasts to compete with other leading audio streaming brands, a report by Bloomberg revealed on Tuesday….

Netflix removes that graphic suicide scene in 13 Reasons Why

Netflix on Tuesday announced that it has removed the suicide scene in the first season of 13 Reasons Why, which depicts main character Hannah…

HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s new streaming service, to launch in 2020

WarnerMedia on Tuesday announced the upcoming release of its very own direct-to-consumer streaming service, HBO Max. “Anchored with and inspired by the legacy of…

Spotify Lite is now officially available in South Africa

Spotify Lite has officially launched in 36 countries around the world and will now be available in South Africa too. The 10MB app is…

Stranger Things 3 was watched by 40m accounts in its first four days

Stranger Things 3, which hit Netflix just under a week ago, has already racked up over 40 million views according to the streaming service….

11 thoughts I had while watching Stranger Things 3

When the third season of Stranger Things hit Netflix last Thursday, the last thing I expected was a hours-long wild ride with my own…

Catch up on Stranger Things season 1 and 2 ahead of 3’s debut tomorrow

Stranger Things‘ third season makes it bow on Netflix tomorrow, nearly two years after the second season made its debut. But if you’re like…

VR entertainment could be coming to a British Airways flight near you

Google updates Chrome OS with better navigation and audio control

YouTube to stop monetisation of ‘unfair’ manual copyright claims

Five SA fintechs that service the growing market of SME lending

AlphaCode awards R16m in grants, support services to eight black-owned SA fintechs

Seedstars calls on startups to apply to Tanzania accelerator and receive $25k each

Some older Nokia smartphones to receive an extra year of updates

The foldable Huawei Mate X is now delayed until November

Open-world Need for Speed Heat is launching in November

Audi’s new cars in Germany will count you down, pace you to green lights

Two Ford Focus trim levels also found to have lock issues

South Africa’s govt ministers really love German cars and big Toyotas report reveals