Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Clippy hasn’t had an easy life. Microsoft’s iconic but polarizing virtual assistant first appeared in Windows 97 as a small paper clip to help Microsoft Office users. It was given the boot by Office 2007, only earlier this year, it resurfaced for one day as an animated sticker in Microsoft Teams before…

South African innovative medical technology startup Envisionit Deep AI which utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline and improve medical imaging diagnosis for radiologists has won $50 000 at the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge with its healthcare solution, Radify. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an online competition that awards…

Last month we made a report that gaming giant company Electronic Arts (EA) had been hacked with valuable data of about 780GB stolen, now the same hackers who had stolen the data from EA have moved from trying to sell that data to now releasing parts of it publicly. In one message on…

Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, is getting into the animation world, with Netflix also confirming such new developments that it’s working on developing a new animated series with Meghan and Archewell Productions, the production outfit founded by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. According to a press release, the series,…

We use emojis every day, so why not celebrate them? World Emoji Day! Did you even know that there’s a World Emoji Day? Well, there is … and it’s on July 17!  Not a day goes by where I don’t use a little party popper emoji to add color to a…

Remember when Snapchat created the Stories format and then every company under the sun copied it? Well, as it turns out, some were more successful than others at that. Facebook’s Instagram, for example, overtook Snapchat a long time ago and it’s not looking back. Twitter, on the other hand? It…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced the company plans to pay out $1 billion through 2022 to content creators for its Facebook and Instagram social networks. It’s one way the company hopes to attract influencers to create content for its platforms as it competes with other popular services, such as…

UK electric aircraft manufacturer, Vertical Aerospace, has won the backing of American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, and Microsoft in its bid to make urban air travel a reality. The startup revealed on Thursday that it has pre-orders for up to 1,000 of its zero-emissions VA-X4 vertical takeoff aircraft, worth as much as $4 billion, as it announced…

The online chat platform Discord has purchased a company that makes AI-powered software to detect and remove online harassment and hate. The company, Sentropy, monitors online networks for abuse and harassment, then offers users a way to block problematic people and filter out messages they don’t want to see. Its first product,…

On Tuesday, France’s competition regulator fined Google 500 million euros ($592 million) for failing to negotiate in good faith with French publishers in a dispute over payments for their news. The agency threatened fines of another 900,000 euros (around $1 million) per day if Google doesn’t come up with proposals within two…

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co recently revealed that it has signed a 4G patent licensing deal with an unnamed supplier of parts to Volkswagen, the world’s largest carmaker. Although reports said it was Luxembourg-based Rolling Wireless, one of the world’s leading suppliers of 4G and 5G network access devices to the…

Samsung has never hesitated to make the rounds in terms of its flagships, as it was one of the first handset makers to launch a device with a 108MP primary sensor. Even its foldable series, which faced criticism due to building issues with the first generation Fold, later became known…

Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp has been accused of multiple breaches of European Union (EU) consumer protection law as a result of its attempts to force WhatsApp users to accept controversial changes to the messaging platforms’ terms of use — such as threatening users that the app would stop working if they…

Following the announcement of the Xiaomi Mi Mix Fold this year, it seems Xiaomi has two more fold phones up its sleeve by the end of the year, according to a fresh set of interesting rumors. With Xiaomi having already announced the Xiaomi Mi Mix Fold in April this year,…

The drone fleet used by SpaceX to catch falling rockets now has a third autonomous ship, whimsically called “A Shortfall of Gravitas.” SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk unveiled the newest floating rocket landing pad on Twitter Friday (July 9) along with a dramatic video from a flying drone circling the ship. “Autonomous SpaceX droneship, A Shortfall…

Audi is going full steam ahead with the electrification of its line-up and in the coming years will launch a host of new all-electric vehicles. Audi is preparing to unveil the first vehicle developed by its new Artemis project, a more nimble startup-like group within the automaker to create more…

Virgin Group’s billionaire founder Richard Branson has bought a stake in space tech fund Seraphim Space Investment Trust, the first venture capital fund, focused on the space sector, as part of a 178 million-pound ($246.99 million) initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Seraphim did not disclose the…

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is planning to take a trip to space…not on a SpaceX rocket, but with Virgin Galactic which flew Richard Branson to space on Sunday. The billionaire’s decision to brave space follows in the footsteps of Blue…

Video Template on TikTok currently offers dozens of customizable templates, but do you know how to use video templates on TikTok? You can create a great TikTok video by doing nothing more than simply talking to the camera. However, if you want to do something a little fancier or you’re…

After months of testing its TikTok competitor in India and a limited beta rollout in the states, YouTube is finally launching YouTube Shorts for everyone in the U.S. and the UK. So now you might be asking yourself…what is YouTube Shorts in the first place? And how do I use it? It’s pretty easy once you…