Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Binance continues to curb its derivatives offering and has recently targeted its South African services. Binance, is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has taken another step in refining its product offerings in different markets around the world, and this time it has hit closer to home. It has ceased the…

Google announced Thursday that it would no longer allow ads or monetization for content that promotes climate change denialism. The policy change will apply to publishers, advertisers, and YouTube creators, who will no longer be able to make money from content that “contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of…

YouTube has announced that its automatic livestream captions should now be available for all creators, instead of being limited to channels with more than 1,000 subscribers like they were during the feature’s initial rollout. This change, along with some future improvements the company details in its blog, should help make the platform more…

A developer named Louis Barclay said Facebook permanently banned his account in response to a browser extension he created. The extension, called simply Unfollow Everything, made Facebook less addictive by helping users automatically unfollow everything in their News Feeds, Barclay said, and was also being used by Swiss researchers to study the…

Microsoft Corp has acquired Ally.io, a company specializing in Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to help improve employee experience by aligning their work to the company’s strategic mission and core priorities for an undisclosed amount. Microsoft plans to turn Ally.io’s OKR functionality into a new module in its Viva employee-experience platform, officials…

Any TikTokers out there? TikTok fan but your phone screen just not quite big enough for your liking? Well, if you own a current LG TV then the video social app is coming. TikTok has announced that it will now be available on selected TVs from LG following a big…

Google traditionally holds an October hardware event to reveal its new Pixel phones. This year, it already announced them — here’s the Pixel 5A and the Pixel 6. But the company clearly hasn’t said everything it wants to say publicly quite yet, because it just announced in a tweet that it will hold its virtual event…

Sweden-based mining solutions provider Sandvik has completed the acquisition of US-based metrology and automation company DWFritz Automation, a company that designs, builds, and supports engineer-to-order metrology solutions and automation systems. With DWFritz Automation, Sandvik wants to expand its current metrology offering and take the lead in in-line metrology, including a…

Air traffic is picking back up after dropping dramatically amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and more people need to get from an airport to where they’re going. To make things a little easier for airline passengers, Uber is rolling out a bunch of tools centered around airport rides. The Uber Reserve feature…

Twitch has suffered a huge data breach. On Wednesday, an anonymous 4chan user shared a 135GB torrent link on the site which includes a slew of internal Twitch information. Pretty much the entirety of Twitch has been leaked by an anonymous hacker. Video game news outlet VGS seems to have…

Twitter has announced that it’s testing new prompts on iOS and Android that warn before you jump into a conversation that could get heated. In one example, there’s a prompt dropped right into a conversation in progress that says “conversations like this can be intense.” In another, which seems like it appears…

Former Facebook Data Scientist Frances Haugen testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Tuesday after she came forward with a wide-ranging condemnation of the tech giant. In an interview that aired Sunday, Haugen revealed that she was the source of internal documents and research showing the company knew of the harmful…

The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is UK’s government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications, and postal industries that has just laid out measures it will require video-sharing platforms to take to better protect users. The VSPs, including TikTok, Snapchat, Vimeo, and Twitch, must ensure content…

Facebook’s hours-long outage on Monday may have hurt the company, its founder, shareholders, and many businesses that rely on the social juggernaut’s services. But for its instant messaging rivals, it was a very good day, as Telegram Founder and Chief Executive Pavel Durov said on Tuesday that his instant messaging app added…

South Africa’s first prop-tech venture capital, and private equity organization Castle One has reportedly secured a notable investment from HL Hall and Sons Holdings (‘Halls’). The undisclosed investment will be used to help the prop-tech venture builder assist the real estate industry in optimising technology to benefit this sector. In…

A San Francisco federal court decided that electric carmaker Tesla must pay a former black elevator operator, Owen Diaz, around $137 million after he experienced a hostile work environment, including racial harassment and discrimination, at the company’s Fremont plant. The jury awarded more than attorneys asked for their client, including $130 million…

The City of Cape Town has partnered with the University of Western Cape (UWC) to launch a three-year training programme for entrepreneurs. The programme is tailored to assist participants in growing their business by providing them with valuable skills and knowledge.  Grant Twigg, The City of Cape Town’s MayCo member…

South African investment platform Innovation Edge has announced that applications for its new grant funding programme tailored for early-stage edtech startups with solutions for early education are now open.  Interested applicants must provide an innovative edtech solution that addresses early learning for children under the age of six. Innovation Edge…

So it appears Facebook’s loss turned into a gain for other social media as two private messenger apps, Signal and Telegram, saw downloads and user sign-ups soar during the extended outage of Facebook Inc.’s network of apps and services. Millions of new users joined the Edward Snowden-endorsed Signal on Monday,…

As the day becomes October 5 in each time zone around the world, the availability of Windows 11 begins through a free upgrade on eligible Windows 10 PCs and on new PCs pre-installed with Windows 11. Microsoft has pointed to several improvements over its predecessor, including faster performance, better multitasking…