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Google News redesign unsurprisingly angers everyone

Google News has been redesigned, and its interface is sleek, clean, customisable and universally hated. One of the main features Google News is touting is news…

Google fined €2.42-billion for abusing market dominance

The European Commission has fined Google €2.42-billion (R35.32-billion) for abusing its dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison shopping service over others….

#RTD2017: Rocking the Daisies announces lineup in annoying Twitter campaign

There’s nothing I hate more than a clever advertising campaign that forces me to tarnish my already messy social media brand. Local music festival…

YouTube to launch comment topics so you can skip the boring stuff

I’m a simple woman: I see YouTube is letting me filter out annoying, tired jokes and I click. YouTube announced Saturday that it is working on…

Google will no longer scan your Gmail emails

Great news for those vested in Google products. The company has announced it will no longer be creepy and scan consumers’ Gmail email account…

WannaCry ransomware now affecting Australia’s traffic cameras

Remember WannaCry? The fearsome ransomware package that infected over 250 000 computers in 150 countries earlier this year? Well, it’s back, but not in…

This Google Doodle lets you create calming musical animations

Today would have been Oskar Fischinger’s 117th birthday, and Google is using its latest doodle to celebrate his abstract animations. The German-American was notable for his…

Majority of Facebook users in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria connect to small businesses

The majority of Facebook users in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria use the platform to connect with small businesses. This is according to new…

What should we be teaching our kids to equip them for a tech-fueled future?

We are 15 years into the 21st Century: what should we be teaching our children in the 12 years they are in school that…

5 tricks for translating email tidiness into real life organisation

There are two types of people in the world: Those who keep a tidy inbox and those who don’t — and the latter category…

#GenMobile: there’s no bail out for this banking industry problem

The finance sector is in agreement: there’s a major global threat to the success of the banking and finance industry, one that ignores boom…

Users can now order, pay, track OrderIn orders within WeChat

A few weeks ago, OrderIn, the popular online food ordering service, ran a promotion on WeChat where users could order three meals and get…

You can’t even begin to comprehend how big the Internet of Things is about to become

The extent to which the Internet of Things (IoT) is about to change our lives in the coming decades is difficult to fathom. For…

4 reasons people hate your website’s content

All businesses trying to make a buck online quickly learn that content is king. The content you put on your website or share through…

Sony uses Moneypenny to sell a camera, the Xperia Z5

The James Bond series has been pretty heavy on product placement for some time now, but things have clearly hit a new level with…

The Apple of Everything: why Cupertino is winning in the quest for the next big thing

Few launches from the last few months contained more hype and frenzy than the recent Apple event — which saw the launch of the…

Forget contactless, this is how we’ll pay for things in the future

For decades, it was cash, cards and checks, but the way we pay has evolved massively in recent years. Internet shopping brought the high…

Education is the big hurdle blocking Bitcoin growth in Africa

In a continent that is synonymous with virtual currency in the name of mobile money, bitcoin has somehow had a slow start in Africa….

How Apple TV went from afterthought to exciting in one night

Apple TV has long been regarded by consumers as an afterthought in Apple’s product lineup. While each passing year brought new and much-touted updates…

75 of the biggest mobile innovations of 2015

Global mobile trade body, Mobile Ecosystem Forum, has revealed the finalists for the 12th annual Meffys – the international awards for recognising commercial success…

Gil Oved, Ran Neu-Ner speak to Memeburn about The Creative Counsel’s record acquisition

On Thursday, The Creative Counsel (TCC) confirmed that it had been acquired by Publicis Groupe, the French advertising mega-corp. Memeburn first broke news of…

9 highly effective ways to talk to your CEO about prioritizing website security

Online security threats are a rapidly growing menace. I know it, you know it, more than 37 million Ashley Madison users know it. So…

China’s Smartphone Market Slips 3% as vivo Reclaims the Top Spot

Xiaomi 15T Series – Leica in Your Pocket

When AI Sees What We See – Why Its “Vision” Feels Weird (and Slightly Creepy)

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

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

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel