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Google Phone app now warns users of spam calls

Great news for those constantly hassled by insurances companies who want your money (and soul). This week, everyone’s non-evil company Google announced that it…

Google Maps now features ‘Areas Of Interest’ with cleaner aesthetic

Google Maps’ latest update now allows users to get a more up to date sense of what’s happening in their surrounding areas. It also…

11 Google Now voice commands worth remembering

Voice assistants are all the rage now but, alongside Siri, Google Now has played a major role in the current trend of smart, voice-enabled…

Google Search improves for holiday makers, simplifies online shopping

Google wants to make searching, booking and paying for your December holiday an easier affair, according to its new additions to Google Search. The…

Google Hangouts for Android gains video messaging, loses SMS merging

Google vehemently denied at its I/O 2016 conference that it would be ditching Hangouts in favour of its two new chat apps. And good…

Oscar Pistorius: social media slams sentence, global search spikes

After three years of back-and-forth legal battles, Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six-years behind bars for shooting and murdering Reeva Steenkamp. The legal…

Want a RankBrain-friendly website? Here are 5 key pointers

Google is now using the RankBrain machine-learning system to process each and every search query it receives. Fuelled by AI, RankBrain is a query…

Does Google Auto-Translate spell trouble for your email campaign?

Last week Google launched its auto-translate feature for Gmail, in theory making email a lot simpler for people who don’t speak the same language….

Google to host VC hangouts on Google+

Google is reportedly planning to organise a series of Google+ hangouts with top Silicon Valley VCs. The programme, called VC Office Hours was officially…

How Google moved the online advertising goalposts

The power of digital marketing over its more traditional offline brethren such as TV and Radio has been the measurability of the medium: advertisers…

Google admits Street View engineer told colleagues about collecting Wi-Fi data

A Google engineer who wrote a program that collected private data from people’s unsecured Wi-Fi networks told at least two colleagues he had done…

Phandroids, meet your dream bar accessory: KegDroid [Video]

Hey, are you geek who loves beer? Do you ever wish you could combine the two aspects of your personality? Well one Googler named…

Google set to fight violent extremism online

Google wants to tackle extremism, not with a full-scale invasion of a conveniently oil-rich country, but with an online network. The network, called Against…

Brandcast: Google’s bid to help brands target YouTube audiences

YouTube has stealthy launched Brandcast, a new site that gives brands insight on the best ways to reach their audience through the video sharing…

Women in tech: Leading the geek world one stiletto at a time

It seems no matter how much society evolves, women are always left just that little bit behind. No, this is not an article about…

Digital wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft [Infographic]

I’ve been listening to Charles Arthur every Tuesday on the Guardian pod-cast, Tech weekly, for the past year. Arthur would mention his upcoming book…

Google’s Page and Schmidt backing asteroid mining startup

Wired is reporting that a group of intrepid billionaires will soon announce their new venture called Planetary Resources, Inc, “which plans to send swarms…

Umbono Alpha Beta: Beer, pizza and startups, the Google way

Umbono Alpha Beta is a Google event at which you can have as much free beer and pizza as you want, as long as…

Facebook ‘friends’ may not be welcome on Google+

Is Google+ a ghost town? A lot of people feel it is because their “friends” and family are not on Google+, they are on…

German court puts on the screws on YouTube to cull copyrighted videos

A German court is putting the screws on YouTube to include copyright filters on the site to spot when users upload files copyrighted by…

Sergey Brin & Google’s privacy dilemma

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, wrote that his comments about internet freedom made to The Guardian Newspaper needed some clarification. He begins by re-stating his…

Geeks will always geek out: tech designer dresses

There are a few geeks floating about out here on the web and a few fashionistas too. So it is with no surprised that…

QR Codes Are Powering a New Kind of Accessibility in South Africa’s Malls

The Era of the Device-Scroller Is Officially Here

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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