Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

94 year-old John Goodenough, one of the co-inventors of the lithium-ion battery that now powers everything from phones to Teslas, has developed a new solid-state battery formula that promises to hold three times more energy than li-on. Goodenough and his team also say the new battery, which replaces a liquid…

Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, had a stellar first day in its public debut on the New York Stock Exchange, popping 44 percent. The self-proclaimed camera company that began its roots as an ephemeral photo-sharing app first priced its IPO at $17 per share on Wednesday. The stock…

Director James Mangold’s Logan howled loudly at the North American box office over the weekend with $85.3 million from 4,071 theaters, the biggest opening of the year so far and one of the top showings of all time for an R-rated film or for a March release. Logan was also…

Warren Buffett is arguably the greatest investor of our time, and that makes knowing what stocks he’s buying for Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A)(NYSE:BRK-B) must-know news. In the fourth quarter, Buffett added a bunch of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) to his portfolio, and recently, he recently said that…

Facebook finally has a Dislike button, but it’s not where you’d expect. How do you reply to a specific message in a rapid-fire chat thread? Facebook wants you to attach emojis to your friends’ messages the same way you do with News Feed posts. I am going to give you…

Messaging apps offer so many of the things venture capitalists love most in the world: massive scalability, low startup costs, loyal users, and the potential to mint billions without having to turn a profit. Snap, which lost half a billion dollars last year and is eyeing a post-IPO valuation over…

Coming to your feed – a “disputed” label for bogus stories That bogus story about Donald Trump your uncle posted on Facebook? It’s still staying on Facebook. But now it’s going to get a warning label. Eventually. Sometimes. Facebook has started pinning a “disputed” tag on fake news, as it…

Irony alert: One of Mexico’s biggest corporations says it’s willing to provide the cement for President Trump’s proposed border wall Cemex, one of the world’s largest providers of building materials, said that it would provide building materials for a border wall — if a client asks for it. “If one…

Just a day after its historic initial public offering, shares of Snap Inc. (SNAP) are up over 60% from their IPO price and still climbing. As the parent company of Snapchat watches its market cap climb well above $30 billion, it now has the pressure of thousands of new investors…

Watching the Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress on TV, I couldn’t help but notice some signs of “5G,” the full-throttle Internet aspirations for smartphone manufacturers, chipmakers, network operators, and government regulators. But what precisely is 5G and when will it impact our everyday lives? The quick takeaway is that 5G, or…

Your next Android phone could cost a lot less and yet come with the same “biometric” fingerprint-unlocking security as high-end hardware. Or you could find yourself paying extra for screen resolution you can’t appreciate and an altered Android interface you don’t need. Those were the ups and downs of smartphones…

Many of the smartphones coming out in 2017 are moving in similar technical directions—more fingerprint scanners, more USB Type-C connections, and so on. All this smartphone tech was on display this week at the annual Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. Most of the industry was represented, but not…

The photo- and video-messaging app Snapchat is unlike any other social network you probably use. Unlike Facebook or Twitter, launching Snapchat brings you to a minimalist camera screen with a few icons tucked away in the corners — there are no feeds or menus to greet or guide you here.…

Japanese-based messaging app Line is wildly popular in other parts of the world and the company has even expanded from a simple chat app to a full-service mobile carrier. According to news report, Line is branching out again and developing its own digital assistant called Clova to compete with the…

Apple is currently investigating claims that an iPhone 7 Plus exploded due to battery issues. The problem was raised on Twitter, where users have published a video and photos of the damaged phone. They show the back of a rose gold iPhone 7 Plus being deformed by a swollen battery…

The social media company has a huge contract with Google Cloud Platform. But what does that mean? Snap, which is set to IPO this week, signed a $2 billion, five-year contract with Google for its cloud services, which makes Snap Google’s largest customer of its cloud platform. For context, Google’s…

https://youtu.be/RH3OxVFvTeg?t=19 James Mangold’s Logan, the third and latest stand-alone Wolverine movie, is a strange contradiction: It’s both the most violent film in the series and the most sentimental one. When it’s not showering you in blood, it’s trying to make you spill tears. It’s much more comfortable with the former…

Welcome Brave – a brand new security-oriented web browser, which also has built-in support for torrent downloading and streaming. It is not a secret that old-fashioned BitTorrent clients have lost most of their appeal, as they become outdated with the rise of video streaming websites and services. This is why…

If I were to ask for a smartphone that’s smaller than the iPhone 7 Plus but has a bigger screen, most electronics store clerks would probably think I was asking them to answer a riddle. But that’s exactly what LG sought to do with its new Android phone, the G6,…

As the chills of February give way to the renewal of March, the mobile industry kicks off its year with the grand Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In years past, this has been the launchpad for tons of smartphone innovation — so we keep hoping for more of the same…