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LIVE: watch and follow Donald Trump’s inauguration here

The day is finally here. After countless polls, a gruelling campaign and the eventual elections, Donald Trump will tonight be inaugurated in Washington DC,…

Facebook blocks Russia’s RT prior to Trump inauguration

Both Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg aren’t having the best of weeks. While Zuck is out in Hawaii settling land disputes, Facebook has…

Chelsea Manning: WikiLeaks whistleblower to be released in May

US President Barack Obama has commuted military whistleblower and Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning’s prison sentence, marking the most notable commutation of his administration. Manning…

FibreTiger: find fibre deals with this handy tool

A new website, dubbed FibreTiger, now allows South Africans to find the best bang for their fibre buck. FibreTiger was launched last month and…

Update: Well Cape Town, now Signal Hill’s on fire

Update: the fire on Signal Hill has now been contained. It’s just been an awful week for nature conservationists, fire fighters and anyone who…

Zimbabwe U-turns on steep data, voice tariff hikes

Zimbabwe isn’t having the best of starts to 2017. The country has faced floods, water shortages and even gold falling from the sky, but…

Internet.org gives millions of Zambians free Facebook, Google on their phones

It’s made headlines with its seemingly crazy unconventional project to bring internet access to the developing world with drones and lasers, but now it…

IDEO’s Tom Kelley, Ogilvy UK’s Rory Sutherland to headline Digital Edge Live

Digital Edge Live, the annual digital marketing conference organised by Native VML, has lined up a couple of heavyweight headline speakers for its 2014…

You can now 3D print your own asteroids, satellites thanks to NASA

Okay okay, you won’t actually be able to 3D print an actual satellite or an asteroid, but if you have a 3D printer you…

Struggling to wade through ‘Ulysses’? Maybe this VR version will help

If you’ve ever tried to read James Joyce’s Ulysses, you’ll know that getting through it can be, well, challenging to say the least (I…

Ukraine turns to YouTube as it pins Malaysian air crash on pro-Russian separatists

The Ukranian government has uploaded an audio recording to YouTube which it claims definitively proves that Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shut down by…

World’s geeks go weak at the knees as Elon Musk donates $1m to The Oatmeal’s Tesla museum

If you cast your minds back a couple of years, you might recall that The Oatmeal, the popular cartoon site run by Matthew Inman,…

New Samsung Android handsets in Nigeria to feature Celltick Start-based UI

Celltick, creator of the Android lockscreen replacement app Start, has announced a new partnership with Samsung West Africa that will see it develop a…

Can tech help us turn neighborhoods back into communities? OurHood thinks so

This is interesting. It’s called OurHood and it’s a mobile and web platform trying to cover a slew of hyperlocal needs, starting with Green…

Bye bye cover babes: Stuff bids farewell to ‘lad mag’ imagery

In a victory for common sense, Stuff — one of the world’s largest tech magazine franchises — is ditching the models that have graced…

Could the ‘Daily Mail’ have posed as radical forum user to incite Muslim rage?

As America celebrated its Independence Day, a supposed journalist from the UK’s Daily Mail crept onto Ummah, a Muslim discussion board and, in a rather lame…

Twitter shows its ecommerce ambitions as ‘buy now’ button appears on mobile

It looks like Twitter may just be about to get serious about ecommerce. In the last day or so, tweets started appearing with an…

Goals, gaffes and records: how Twitter saw the weekend’s World Cup action

This weekend saw the opening salvos of the World Cup’s knockout stages and, alongside the drama taking place on the pitch, there was plenty…

Facebook research: international brands are big in Brazil

Judging return on investment on social media is quite difficult. What is a like actually worth? What does a like mean? Who likes what…

Bing wants to take on the world, but first it has to find the right people

“Bing is embarking on the most ambitious geographic and product expansion in its history.” Those are the words that accompanied a job posting for…

Flow launches the world’s first and only shoppable audience marketplace

MTN MoMo’s R10-a-Day Smartphone Offer Aims to Bridge South Africa’s Digital Divide

Acer Rolls Out Student-Focused Tech in South Africa Ahead of New Term

Flow Unveils World’s First Shoppable Audience Marketplace – A Fintech-Led Revolution in Digital Targeting

Cape Town VC firm HAVAÍC secures $25m second close to power next wave of African tech startups

Binance Pay Unlocks Everyday Crypto Spending in South Africa

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel