Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Zimbabwe is experiencing its worst power cuts in three years, lasting up to 15 hours daily – Stage 2.

Mobile threat researchers at Avast has identified seven stalker apps all likely designed by a Russian developer and Google has moved swiftly to remove those apps available on Play Store as apps for children’s safety or finding stolen phones but were being used to stalk employees, romantic partners or kids. The apps were…

Bernard Arnault has a net worth of $107.6 billion, Bloomberg reports. Forbes, meanwhile, pegs his net worth slightly lower at $104.2 million.

Today Intel announced its deep partnership with SAP, a broader multi-year partnership focused on optimizing Intel’s platform innovations for the datacenter and as part of the arrangement, SAP will optimize its business software to run on Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC persistent memory. SAP will optimize its bundle…

Visa Inc. the world’s biggest payments network announced that it has invested in Indonesia’s Go-Jek as part of the ride-hailing company’s ongoing Series F fundraising round but surprisingly Visa did not mention how much money it was investing in Go-Jek or how big a stake it would acquire. This investment…

The 12-gigabit (GB) LPDDR5 mobile DRAM will give smartphones the power they need for 5G and AI applications.

Expect them to show up in iOS 13 and Android Q.

Maternal and infant health tech company Mahmee just closed a $3M funding round that includes prominent figures such as Mark Cuban and Serena Williams.  The round is led by Arlan Hamilton’s ArlanWasHere Investments, with support from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. They join previous investors Backstage Capital, Bumble Fund, and Pipeline Angels, among others.…

Japan is to restrict exports to South Korea of three key materials used in smartphone displays and chips as bilateral ties take turn for the worse.

According to Patently Apple it appears Samsung is exploring the development of augmented reality based on a recently filed patent application. The application submitted by Samsung to the US Patent & Trademark Office details foldable glasses with very thick frames meant to store the electronic tech, similar to the Samsung Gear VR. The documentation the tech…

Just in time for your weekend binge session, Hulu announced that it now supports 4K streaming on its service. Hulu is currently behind rivals such as Netflix and iTunes when it comes to support for 4K content, but the service has now switched on 4K streaming again – for some shows and some…

Twitch the live streaming platform continues to lead rivals including, YouTube Live, Facebook Gaming and Microsoft’s Mixer, when it comes to live-streaming video. Despite experiencing its first decline in hours watched in Q2 2019, the Amazon-owned game-streaming site still had its second-biggest quarter to date, with more than 70% of…

If you had noticed, with each passing day, Pinterest and Instagram are looking more and more alike. Shortly after going public, Pinterest has incorporated new features to make it easier for creators and brands to upload videos directly to the visual search engine. The company says they’ve observed a 31%…

Looking at last year’s stats, it revealed that the time spent watching shows on Snapchat has tripled. The company wants to take advantage of that. Today, it announced Creator Shows, a new format that will deliver regularly published content from some of Snapchat’s most popular stars. It’s also adding a Highlights…

The goal is to contribute to the overall target to generate at least 10 million new jobs and $10 billion in new annual revenues across Africa.

A team of German researchers has created an automatic landing system for small aircraft that lets them touch down not only without a pilot, but without any of the tech on the ground that lets other planes do it. It could open up a new era of autonomous flight —…

Cruise, a U.S. self-driving vehicle company majority-owned by General Motors Co, on Friday revealed that a U.S. national security panel approved a $2.25 billion investment in the firm by Japan’s SoftBank Corp. SoftBank has come under increasing U.S. scrutiny over its ties to Chinese firms in the face of an…

Just months after Kwesé TV (satellite subscription service) shut down after a troublesome 18 months, last week on Wednesday, Kwesé Play users in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Uganda woke up only to find out that the streaming service was down with error notification that “Econet Nolonger Offers Kwesé Play. For More…

Apple’s next generation iPhones are still some way off, but that hasn’t stopped the online rumour mill from serving up some details about the iPhone 11, or so-called iPhone XI lineup. Though what’s certain is that Apple is expected to make a big change this year when it introduces a…

A Tesla Model 3 has travelled 2,781 km (1,728 miles) in 24 hours, breaking the 24 hour EV distance record. The new record was set by Bjørn Nyland and his co-pilots, on an autobahn in northern Germany. A common refrain about electric cars is that they’re fine for city driving…