Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

The Ford Motor Company, commonly known as Ford recently announced that it’s doubling down on electric vehicle development it will invest $30 billion in electrification efforts by 2025. The automaker also pledged that 40% of its vehicles sold by 2030 will be electric. Ford had previously announced plans to spend…

Facebook Inc recently launched new ways to inform people if they’re interacting with content that’s been rated by a fact-checker as well as taking “stronger” action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on Facebook.  Whether it’s false or misleading content about COVID-19 and vaccines, climate change, elections, or other topics, Facebook…

The group behind the SolarWinds cyber attack identified as Nobelium late last year is now targeting government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations, Microsoft Corp said on Thursday. “This week we observed cyber attacks by the threat actor Nobelium targeting government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations”, Microsoft said…

Iran has banned the energy-intensive mining of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin for nearly 4 months, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, as the country faces major power blackouts in many cities. “The ban on the mining of cryptocurrencies is effective immediately until September 22 … Some 85% of the current…

Earlier this year we reported that the Chinese military had banned Tesla vehicles from entering its complexes, and housing compounds because of concerns about sensitive data being collected by cameras built into the vehicles, which Elon Musk, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tesla downplayed espionage concerns from China, adding that…

Never mind the GPUs used for process-intensive mining of Bitcoin, new cryptocoin Chia is driving up hard disk drive prices by its own processing needs, which are based on storage capacity. Chia Network Inc., a blockchain and digital currency platform founded by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen, has more than doubled…

The price of bitcoin climbed back above $40,000 on Wednesday morning, a week after its price tumbles 30% to around $30,000. According to Coin Metrics data, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency was trading at $40,344.50 at 5:24 a.m. ET (11:24 a.m. South Africa) on Wednesday, up over 5% over the last…

Zimbabwean-born telecoms mogul Strive Masiyiwa has been named the first black billionaire in the UK. Masiyiwa, chairman and founder of Econet Group, a telecommunications and technology group with operations and investments in 29 countries in Africa and Europe, appeared on the Sunday Times UK Rich List over the weekend. The Rich List…

Earlier this month, Tesla suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin, over concerns about its environmental impact, just a month earlier revealed it had bought the equivalent of $1.5bn (£1bn) of the digital currency. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which…

Mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could leave adverse impacts on the environment, some fear. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said, “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.” And in what can only be…

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies plunged earlier this month after Elon Musk said Tesla would stop accepting bitcoin as payment for its vehicles because of the huge amount of energy needed to mine bitcoin. But Musk might be having a slight change of heart on bitcoin mining. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted late Monday that he spoke…

Amazon.com Inc is nearing a deal to acquire Hollywood Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios, the co-owner of the James Bond franchise and other film and TV series, for between $8.5 billion and $9 billion including debt, according to people familiar with the matter a pact that would turn a film operation founded…

Egypt’s first locally produced electric car is on its way, along with 3,000 of the charging stations needed to power them. Egypt will start manufacturing electric cars in 2022, with an initial capacity of 100 cars during the first year, Public Business Sector Minister Hesham Tawfik said. Production of the…

South Africa’s largest black-owned asset manager, Sanlam Investments, is looking to raise an additional R35-billion for its range of impact funds. The funds aim to make a real sustainable difference to people, communities, and the environment. Impact Funds aim to make a sustainable difference to individuals, communities, and environments. This…

After successful launches in Nigeria and South Africa, Uber has extended their partnership with Moove, Uber’s preferred fleet partner in Sub-Saharan Africa, to provide potential and current Uber drivers in Ghana with long-term access to vehicles. The largest partnership of its kind, the collaboration aims to lower existing barriers to…

Crypto mining operators, including Huobi Mall and BTC.TOP, are suspending their China operations after Beijing stepped up its efforts to crack down on Bitcoin mining and trading, sending the digital currency tumbling. A State Council committee led by Vice Premier Liu He announced the efforts late on Friday – the…

Chinese telecom giant Huawei has been working on a new operating system for smartphones, an alternative to Android for a few years now, dubbed HarmonyOS. We’ve already seen a developer version hit China in recent months, but it looks like Huawei is ready to launch the new mobile platform. HarmonyOS, or Hongmeng…

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today announced the market’s first enterprise-grade Wi-Fi 6E solution set – the 630 Series of campus access points (APs), starting with the AP-635*. The latest innovation in Wi-Fi technology, Wi-Fi 6E refers to Wi-Fi devices that operate in the 6 GHz band,…

Makers Landing, a food community, where the brightest minds in food hone their skills and is a development created by the V&A Waterfront in partnership with the National Treasury’s Job Fund, is calling on local food entrepreneurs to apply for its latest cohort incubator programme. Makers Landing Makers Landing is…

Mobile gaming platform Carry1st and developer CrazyLabs have launched an accelerator programme in Cape Town. The accelerator aims to promote African game development. The companies announced CrazyHubs Cape Town on 24 May. “The African continent is latent with potential for great ideas to be transformed into world-class gaming experiences,” CrazyLabs…