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Instagram launches its shopping experience, but it’s not what we first thought

Instagram has introduced a new online shopping experience to consumers, but it’s not the standalone app we expected. Instead, you can shop inside Instagram…

Private cannabis use is now legal in South Africa (and Twitter is loving it)

On Tuesday, the Constitutional Court decriminalized the private use of cannabis in South Africa. The ruling comes a year after the Western Cape High…

Someone’s sticking needles in Australia’s strawberries, and no one knows why

Australia’s dealing with a rather odd crisis at present. Sewing needles have been found lodged in strawberries and bananas across the country, in what…

These people are getting very wet reporting on Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence is just a few kilometres east of North Carolina at the time of writing, but hurricane-force winds have been lashing the US…

Facebook’s Rosetta can understand the text in your advice animal memes

Facebook has this week announced its machine-learning program that can read and understand text in images. This AI system, which Facebook calls Rosetta, will…

LG launches WhatsApp complaints service in SA

Korean smartphone and applicance maker LG has today launched a WhatsApp service channel in South Africa, allowing users to log complaints or problems with…

Apple will livestream its iPhone launch on Twitter

If you don’t have a Mac, watching an Apple event live is always a pain in the ass. You couldn’t use any other browsers…

20 SA game development personalities to follow on Twitter [Digital All Stars]

Digital All Stars is a series of articles which aims to celebrate the best of South African digital. The articles, which will appear on…

5 impressive numbers from Facebook’s latest earnings report

Facebook is an internet colossus in the same way we viewed Google a few years ago. The company is riding a remarkable growth curve,…

#BeyoncePoseChallenge: has Beyonce’s Instagram pose become a thing?

In the wake of Beyonce’s Instagram-shattering announcement earlier this morning, the internet has understandably gone a little bit insane. A byproduct of that however,…

Facebook’s next destination could be your television

Facebook has been on a roll in January, spitting out updates to its multiple services and outlining its future plans. But the latest report…

Tonight’s Premier League Deadline Day will be livestreamed on Twitter

Transfer deadline day is one that football fans across the world love dearly, and a day Premier League managers hate. But another company eagerly…

WhatsApp location tracking is coming, according to latest betas

According to new beta builds of WhatsApp’s mobile apps, users may soon be able to track others’ location in real-time. Spotted by beta-sniffing Twitter…

Twitter to launch new anti-harassment features

Twitter has been waging a lengthy war with online bullies and trolls, introducing several key features over the past year or two. Between filing multiple tweets…

Trump Hotels slammed on Twitter in wake of #MuslimBan

If you happen to use Twitter on a daily basis, there’s one thing you should always remember: the moment you hit send, that tweet…

CNN’s Facebook accounts briefly breached by OurMine

CNN’s Facebook accounts were briefly compromised this weekend by hacking collective OurMine, Mashable reports. The group, now infamous for gaining access to accounts to…

You can now log in to Facebook using a special USB or NFC key

Facebook just can’t stop announcing things this week. With Facebook Stories revealed for its mobile app, and tweaks also heading to its Facebook Trending…

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Instagram launches its shopping experience, but it’s not what we first thought

Private cannabis use is now legal in South Africa (and Twitter is loving it)

Someone’s sticking needles in Australia’s strawberries, and no one knows why

Facebook’s Rosetta can understand the text in your advice animal memes

LG launches WhatsApp complaints service in SA

Apple will livestream its iPhone launch on Twitter

20 SA game development personalities to follow on Twitter [Digital All Stars]

5 impressive numbers from Facebook’s latest earnings report

Facebook’s next destination could be your television

Tonight’s Premier League Deadline Day will be livestreamed on Twitter

WhatsApp location tracking is coming, according to latest betas

Twitter to launch new anti-harassment features

Trump Hotels slammed on Twitter in wake of #MuslimBan

CNN’s Facebook accounts briefly breached by OurMine

You can now log in to Facebook using a special USB or NFC key

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