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Google Assistant hits Android 6.0, 7.0 devices

The Google Assistant is essentially a supercharged take on Google Now, delivering reminders, answers to more specific questions and more. It was initially limited…

Amazon’s S3 outage temporarily killed some of the internet

The last time the internet literally lost itself was October 2016, when global DNS giant Dyn suffered a DDoS attack. That was bad, plunging…

Google Keep is now a G Suite app, gains Docs integration

In a bid to integrate its products into everything (even within its other products), internet giant Google has announced that its Keep note-taking app…

New Google Doodle honours NASA’s latest discovery

It’s not often mother Earth discovers long lost relatives in outer space, but that’s largely what NASA has announced this week. The space exploration…

Microsoft’s Skype Lite Android app launches in India

An interesting counter-trend is emerging among the world’s most popular apps. With Facebook launching the likes of Messenger Lite and Facebook Lite last year…

Skype’s new preview beta adds a touch of Snapchat

Remember Skype? The video conferencing tool is a product we haven’t covered in a while, and that’s largely because its feature set hasn’t changed radically…

Google’s Sundar Pichai responds to the cutest job application ever

If you were the CEO of Google, would you reply to a seven-year-old’s job application? No? Then you’re clearly not Sundar Pichai. He did…

Yup, Google is now using camels to virtually map out the Arabian desert

We’ve all seen the cars with those massive Google stickers tapped to the door and a 360-degree camera on the roof, right? They’ve captured…

Yet another Apple iStore raided by bandits in Cape Town

Last evening, shortly before Canal Walk mall closed its doors, armed men stormed and robbed the iStore. The robbery follows many similar incidents that…

Samsung expects a poor quarterly profit, smartphones wearing it down

Samsung is expecting its quarterly profits to punch in at 4.1-trillion won (US$3.8-billion) — that’s about 60% down from last year’s 10.2-trillion won forecast….

Get the Popcorn: The ‘Netflix of torrents’ is finally available on iOS

Popcorn Time, the popular entertainment platform that makes watching torrented movies and series a seamless experience has finally launched on iOS, making the so-called,…

Less flash, more business: why Microsoft is sticking to the basics

Microsoft has gone back to basics. With its latest Windows update, it’s being as cautious as a group of retirees crossing a busy intersection….

Internet for the masses: Google’s Project Loon finally takes off in SA

Google’s Project Loon has finally launched in South Africa. We’ve picked up wind about Google’s Project Loon a while ago — the very exciting…

Conan O’Brien has figured a way to completely remove all traces of U2 from your memory [video]

Our Stuart and Michelle took on Apple and called out the company’s creepiness regarding its automatic addition of the U2 album onto user’s iCloud…

Tim Cook aggressively reiterates Apple’s commitment to user privacy and security

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, does not sleep. At night he is haunted by naked photos of celebrities. He has not admitted to this,…

Google brings ‘Connected Classroom’ to South Africa with Vilakazi Street tour

On 13 October 2014, children from schools across the world will visit Vilakazi Street. On the street, they will manoeuvre around many historical monuments,…

Google’s latest big purchase? A smart spoon maker

Google just made a purchase that looks set to further bolster its capabilities in the Internet of Things and healthcare spaces. This time though,…

What did it take for Apple to go from cool to creepy? A single U2 album

With additional commentary by Mich Atagana Along with pretty much all my colleagues in the tech press — and thousands of hardcore Apple fans…

Apple’s old timey classic Watch needs to be a fashion statement in the age of tech

After months of waiting, Apple has finally announced its wearable, the Apple Watch. Fanboys and girls everywhere have been waiting for the tech giant…

Playing it safe: Apple’s best launch in years was also its least risky

It’s difficult to go into an Apple event objectively these days. If you’re a fan, which large numbers of the tech press are, then…

Analysts: Apple will sell more than 10 million iWatches in its first year

Along side other iDevices, the long-awaited iWatch (name unconfirmed) will apparently be unveiled by tech giant Apple later today. Even though the device is…

Back from the dead, sort of: Microsoft rebrands Bing apps to MSN

We’re willing to bet that, by now, you’d probably forgotten about MSN or assumed that Microsoft had quietly buried it somewhere in the deep…

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