Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

The United Kingdom has been making giant strides in technology and innovation from attracting tech talent globally, making plans to become a science and technology superpower, committing £2.5 billion in quantum computing, to investing in clean tech initiatives. In a move that would see increased investments in growth-stage financial technology companies, the UK is…

According to a post by X owner Elon Musk on Friday, users of X, formerly known as Twitter, will no longer be able to block comments from unwanted followers, eliminating what’s long been viewed as a key safety feature. Blocking will only be available for direct messages, he said. Musk wrote Friday:…

The US-based e-hailing company, inDrive, has been expanding across Africa. Recently the company obtained a license to operate in Kenya, and is now offering services in Lesotho. Yesterday inDrive announced the launch of its ride-hailing service in the country, saying this is part of the company’s continued expansion throughout Southern…

Meta-owned messaging platform has always been criticized for not allowing users to share high-quality images through its app. While you could send your pictures or videos as a document on WhatsApp, that is not a straightforward solution. Of course, photos are compressed on the platform to reduce the file size. Finally,…

Instagram Head Adam Mosseri announced in a Threads post on Thursday that Threads is adding reposts, also known as retweets, to its reverse-chronological “Following” feed. It’s a small but nice addition to the app that makes the Following feed a bit more useful, and while Mosseri said Meta added it “based…

In a surprise move, former Twitter Co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, but now Block CEO, has deleted his Instagram account, meaning that the @jack handle on Instagram is now free and up for grabs. Dorsey posted on the decentralized social media platform called Nostr: I deleted my Instagram account. Don’t…

Discord.io, a platform that enabled users to generate personalized links for their Discord channels, is shutting down in the aftermath of a significant data breach. As reported by TechRadar, a hacker managed to abscond with the information of 760,000 users. This pilfered data sample has been made available on Breached…

The Associated Press (AP) published standards today for generative AI use in its newsroom. The organization, which has a licensing agreement with ChatGPT maker OpenAI, listed a fairly restrictive and common-sense list of measures around the burgeoning tech while cautioning its staff not to use AI to make publishable content. Although nothing…

My AI, the in-app digital assistant that rides herd on your Snapchat Plus experience, has suffered numerous breakdowns and technical malfunctions since its debut in February. Tuesday was more of the same as the chatbot took it upon itself to post single-second-long Stories to users’ feeds and then go unresponsive for extended…

Vodacom Mozambique has launched the 2Africa cable in Nacala-Porto. According to the telecom provider, it is the first undersea cable to land in the country’s north, and a data facility has also opened in the same city. According to the United Nations, Mozambique is one of the world’s least developed…

Telegram has launched its Stories feature to everyone, following its availability to Premium users starting last month. Like Facebook Messenger’s Stories, they appear as expandable bubbles above your conversation. However, Telegram’s take is more customizable, providing granular control of who sees uploaded posts and for how long. “Now when you meet people on…

New York City is joining dozens of states and the federal government in banning TikTok from city-owned devices. Agencies will have to remove the app within the next 30 days but the ban goes into effect immediately. A New York City Hall spokesperson said in a statement: While social media…

OpenAI, the AI company behind the viral AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, has announced its first acquisition in its history, in the form of New York-based startup Global Illumination. Founded by Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon, and Joey Flynn, the team at Global Illumination previously designed and built products early on at Instagram and Facebook and have also made significant contributions at…

Uh-oh — Microsoft might be storing information from your Bing chats. This is probably totally fine as long as you’ve never chatted about anything you wouldn’t want anyone else reading, or if you thought your Bing chats would be deleted, or if you thought you had more privacy than you actually have. In…

The special counsel investigating Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 storming of the Capitol building — and his mishandling of government documents, including some that are classified — has the former president’s Twitter data. When the obtaining of said data was reported last week, it caused a lot of…

Safaricom’s M-Pesa mobile money service went live in Ethiopia on Wednesday, in a boost to the Kenyan telecoms operator as it seeks to kickstart growth in one of Africa’s biggest economies. Safaricom, which is partly owned by South Africa’s Vodacom and Britain’s Vodafone, launched its voice and data network in the Horn…

The chief technology and information officer for MTN South Africa, Michele Gamberini, has resigned from his office. The mobile network operator said Michele’s administrative tenure came to an end in late July. MTN SA can confirm the resignation of Chief Technology and Information Officer, Michele Gamberini, who has exited MTN…

Well, that was fast. After moving the ‘end call’ button in an iOS 17 beta to the right side of the screen, angering many users who are used to it being in the middle, Apple has apparently changed its mind. In the latest public iOS 17 beta, the ‘end call’ button…

SA’s fourth-biggest mobile operator, Cell C, said on Wednesday its CFO Lerato Pule had tendered her resignation just less than a year after she took up the position. Pule, who started in September 2022, will continue to deliver on critical finance matters over the next few months, the group said…

It seems as though everyone is rushing to use artificial intelligence to pimp their products from Snapchat to Google Chrome and WhatsApp as well. The Meta-owned messaging app is reportedly testing AI-generated stickers on Android, allowing users to describe an image and have it created for them on the spot. Soon there will…