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Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app disabled due to eavesdropping vulnerability

Apple has disabled the Walkie Talkie app on Apple Watch after it was “made aware of a vulnerability” that may allow users to eavesdrop…

FNB’s banking app can now track your savings goals and physical health

FNB on Tuesday announced an expansion of its banking app’s functionality with the introduction of two additional Nav features — the company’s “financial GPS”…

3 online tools to improve your health [Sponsored]

There’s no doubt that the internet has caused a whole host of health problems. People are less active nowadays, with children losing out on…

Johannesburg shops more often but Cape Town shops harder, report reveals

Cape Town shoppers spend more money than Johannesburg shoppers during each shopping spree, despite the latter visiting shops more often, a new report revealed….

Creator of DeepNude, an app that digitally strips women, thinks the world ‘is not ready’ for it

If, by some miracle, you still have traces of faith left in humanity six months into 2019, prepare to lose it all. A report…

Spotify shares your data when you pre-save albums, report reveals

A report by Billboard on Thursday revealed that Spotify shares user data with music labels when users pre-save music, effectively giving the companies access…

Microsoft reveals new high security OneDrive Personal Vault

Microsoft on Tuesday revealed “a new layer of security” for its cloud storage service called OneDrive Personal Vault. The Personal Vault will be accessible…

Niantic CEO John Hanke hacked by OurMine

We’ve seen Google‘s, Twitter‘s and even Facebook‘s CEOs suffer social media account hacks this year, but it seems that hackers have an appetite for…

Here’s how mobile apps are addressing ERP’s progression issues

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has come a long way since theory about Material Requirements Planning was first published in the 1950s. Today most companies…

Solar Impulse 2: a momentous creation for human aeronautics

Back in the early 1900s when Wilbur and Orville Wright took off in the world’s first powered and sustained airplane, man knew that they could…

6 terrible, terrible places to use Pokemon Go Lures

One of the coolest Pokemon Go-related things we’ve seen are businesses using the lure module item to attract people to their premises. The item…

Gamification in the workplace: appeal to younger workforce and drive motivation

A workplace development that’s gaining traction is the use of gamification as a means of monitoring and motivating workforce efficiency. Gaming principles in a…

IAB salary survey reveals highest-earning roles in SA’s digital agencies

IAB SA today revealed South Africa’s “first-ever” digital industry salary survey, which itself revealed some interesting statistics about payrolls in the country’s agency scene….

Edward Snowden working on spy-proof smartphone case for cyber-sleuths

Notorious public whistleblower Edward Snowden and famous hacker Andrew “Bunnie” Huang are co-developing a smartphone case that aims to protect users from wireless device snooping….

Arizona State University finds a way to control drones using brainwaves

The brain is a complex processing unit which contains approximately 200-billion neutrons. These neutrons fire thousands of electrical signals per second. As complex as the…

T-Mobile giving free data for Pokemon Go, but is this a good thing?

US mobile network T-Mobile has also decided to jump on the Pokemon bandwagon. The network has announced that from tomorrow 19 July, it’ll be…

Brexit, volatile markets should not affect customer experience investments

The global economy entered 2016 under a cloud of uncertainty that has been further exacerbated by the Brexit shockwave. Now more than ever, company…

What more can be done to deliver fibre connectivity across South Africa?

It seems like we hear news of fibre developments every other week, as the likes of MTN, Vodacom, Vumatel and Telkom announce suburbs and…

South African travellers connect to unsecured WiFi at any cost – study

A new study by Kaspersky has found that many South African travellers connect to unsecured WiFi networks in no time flat, shedding light on their…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account briefly hijacked by OurMine

The latest high-profile CEO to wake up to a social media account breach is none other than Twitter head Jack Dorsey. The world’s first…

1 in 5 South Africans don’t care about passwords, 8.8m hit by ‘cyber crime’

South Africans have a lot to deal with. Whether its political news, the scourge of crime or one of its national sporting teams’ latest…

Uber drivers share the ‘deepest’ passenger secrets they’ve heard

Social news site Reddit frequently serves up some lovely content, with AskReddit in particular making for some entertaining reading. So when user IamHaiseSasaki asked Uber drivers about…

High End Devices Unlock Superior Mobile Experiences in South Africa

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Samsung Launches the Galaxy A07 Built for Every Challenge

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

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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