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YouTube is bringing a big subscriber count change in September

YouTube is going ahead with its plans to replace full subscriber accounts with abbreviated numbers, a change it first announced in May. The news…

Facebook is expanding its ‘local alerts’ feature across the US

Facebook on Tuesday announced that it will expand its “local alerts” feature throughout the United States, to help the country’s government reach a broader…

Uyinene Mrwetyana: South Africans rally together in search of missing student

South Africans are rallying together on social media to bring home a missing University of Cape Town student. Uyinene Mrwetyana, 19, has been missing…

Facebook is testing a new Instagram app called ‘Threads’

A new messaging app called Threads is being developed by Facebook and planned for Instagram, a report by The Verge revealed on Monday. According…

WhatsApp now supports Apple’s Memojis after iOS beta update

WhatsApp has added support for Memoji stickers on iOS in its latest beta update, a report on WABetaInfo has revealed. The feature will allow…

YouTube to remove ‘misleading family content’ to protect children from adult videos

In an effort to create a safer online space for children on its platform, YouTube is removing all content containing adult themes that purposefully target…

YouTube took down 210 channels linked to Hong Kong protests

In the midst of the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, Google announced that it disabled 210 YouTube channels associated with “coordinated influence operations” in…

Facebook will force Page admins to undergo authorisation process

Facebook’s really worried that Pages with mass followings will possibly fall into the hands of a nefarious super villain. Last week, the social network…

Learn more about South Africa with these Instagram accounts

Instagram isn’t just about posting pictures of your lunch, or selfies with you and the pug. Like all social networks, it can actually be…

#WengerOut meme evolves to #EmeryOut as Arsenal loses to Man City

Arsenal is a massive football club, but there’s one thing even bigger than it: #WengerOut. The hashtag has become something of a global meme…

Here are the coolest new emoji coming to Android Pie

With Google’s recent launch of Android 9 comes Emoji 11.0 and a bunch of new, expressive and politically correct, emojis for users. Though the…

Did you miss the rainbow across Cape Town on Tuesday?

If you were in central Cape Town at around 9am on Tuesday morning, you may have missed something pretty spectacular. And indeed, pretty. Instagram…

6 gut-wrenching videos of the Lombok earthquake aftermath

At least 91 people have died after a series of earthquakes struck the small island of Lombok, Indonesia late on Sunday. USGS recorded at…

Western Cape taxi strike adds to Cape Town’s public transport woes

Today Capetonians woke to rain, gridlocked highways, late trains, buses on fire, and a taxi strike. Yes, yet another taxi strike began in the…

400m people now use Instagram Stories every day

It’s been two years since Instagram first released Instagram Stories, an interactive photo sharing feature that can be found on its main app. In…

Instagram and Facebook launch new activity monitoring tools

Instagram and Facebook have released new activity tools that will help you understand and control the amount of time you spend using their apps….

#Unemployment trends in South Africa as jobless rate rises

South Africa’s unemployment rate has increased by 0.5% to 27.2% between April and June 2018, according to Stats SA’s latest report. More than 100…

YouTube’s web player now auto adjusts for vertical video (but users hate it)

Vertical video is making quite the comeback in 2018. After Instagram launched its IGTV platform, YouTube’s now accommodating users who upload and watch video…

Group voice and video calling is now live on WhatsApp

WhatsApp on Monday announced that video and voice calling for groups is rolling out globally. Competing against the likes of Apple’s FaceTime and Microsoft’s…

The WhatsApp questions you were too embarrassed to ask, answered

WhatsApp is simple enough in theory. It’s a messaging application with voice and video call support. But that’s merely its elevator pitch. When diving…

Donald Trump’s latest Iran tweet gains 50k retweets in five hours

US President Donald Trump needed little over five hours to amass over 137 000 likes and more than 50 000 retweets on his latest…

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YouTube is bringing a big subscriber count change in September

Facebook is expanding its ‘local alerts’ feature across the US

Uyinene Mrwetyana: South Africans rally together in search of missing student

Facebook is testing a new Instagram app called ‘Threads’

WhatsApp now supports Apple’s Memojis after iOS beta update

YouTube to remove ‘misleading family content’ to protect children from adult videos

YouTube took down 210 channels linked to Hong Kong protests

Facebook will force Page admins to undergo authorisation process

Learn more about South Africa with these Instagram accounts

#WengerOut meme evolves to #EmeryOut as Arsenal loses to Man City

Did you miss the rainbow across Cape Town on Tuesday?

6 gut-wrenching videos of the Lombok earthquake aftermath

Western Cape taxi strike adds to Cape Town’s public transport woes

400m people now use Instagram Stories every day

Instagram and Facebook launch new activity monitoring tools

#Unemployment trends in South Africa as jobless rate rises

YouTube’s web player now auto adjusts for vertical video (but users hate it)

Group voice and video calling is now live on WhatsApp

The WhatsApp questions you were too embarrassed to ask, answered

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