Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Everyone likes remembering and wishing a friend, spouse, brother or sister a happy birthday, wedding anniversary, congratulations, good luck or best wishes. There is an application that lets you schedule your text message for a particular time or date just in case you may forget. This new iOS App is…

Apple could be about to drop support for older models of the iPhone. The company’s developer downloads webpage lists all of the devices that are in line for the upcoming iOS 10.3.2 update, which is currently in beta. Missing from the list are the iPhone 5, iPhone 5C and fourth-generation…

Yesterday, Snap Inc (SNAP.N) said its Snapchat messaging app would add an option for users to search through photos and videos that users have posted to the public. The move comes just days after larger rival Facebook Inc (FB.O) stepped up efforts to encourage users to take more photos and…

Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its latest premium smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, which the company hopes will restore its reputation as one of the world’s best smartphone makers. To do that, of course, Samsung must recover from the disastrous recall of its last premium phone, the Galaxy Note…

Losing jobs to technology is nothing new. Since the industrial revolution, roles that were once exclusively performed by humans have been slowly but steadily replaced by some form of automated machinery. Even in cases where the human worker is not completely replaced by a machine, humans have learnt to rely…

Roboticist Sabine Hauert, from the Britain’s University of Bristol, wrote in Nature earlier this year: My colleagues and I spend dinner parties explaining that we are not evil […] People are worried, she said. They hear a mostly one-sided discussion that leaves them worried that robots will take their jobs,…

The workplace is going to look drastically different ten years from now. The coming of the Second Machine Age is quickly bringing massive changes along with it. Manual jobs, such as lorry driving or house building are being replaced by robotic automation, and accountants, lawyers, doctors and financial advisers are…

Samsung will be seeking to put behind it a tumultuous few months with the launch of its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, this week. The much anticipated launch comes after the disastrous Note 7 which had to be scrapped entirely from its smartphone line up after battery problems caused…

When it was released last fall, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 was the hottest Android phone the world had ever seen. Unfortunately though, the Galaxy Note 7 was literally the hottest Android phone the world had ever seen. A poor battery design caused dozens of phones to explode while being charged…

Hugo Boss and Tommy Hilfiger are the latest fashion companies to announce their own Android Wear 2.0 watches at Baselworld 2017. The news continues the trend we’ve been seeing of fashion brands stepping up to fill the gaps in the wearables market caused by an absence of new models from…

A man blackmailed the makers of the upcoming movie The Boss Baby after he obtained a leaked copy. He demanded 20th Century Fox & Dreamworks to pay a bitcoin ransom to avoid the file leaking online before its official premiere. After 20th Century Fox paid ransom, a man was arrested…

But wait. There’s one more thing you need to choose, and it’s a big one: panel technology. Essentially, you’ve got three main choices today: LED TVs, OLED TV, and quantum dot TVs (now referred to as QLED TV by Samsung) They sound the same, so it can be confusing. And…

If Samsung has its way, we’ll all be bellowing voice commands to “Bixby,” the company’s new voice assistant. Yet Bixby could be hard for some users to call upon because of the placement of one letter: the “x.” The “x” in Bixby sounds essentially like a “k” and an “s”…

Toyota owes Microsoft a big ol’ “thank you” when it comes to the future of the automaker’s connected cars. Microsoft will license a good deal of its connected car patents to Toyota. Toyota will have access to a number of intellectual properties covering operating systems, voice recognition, artificial intelligence and…

Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] suspended its pilot program for driverless cars on Saturday after a vehicle equipped with the nascent technology crashed. The accident, the latest involving a self-driving vehicle operated by one of several companies experimenting with autonomous vehicles, caused no serious injuries, Uber said. Even so, the company…

Google is probably the most qualified entity to speak about the number of websites being and compromised on the World Wide Web, and a recent report from them not only indicates that the number of hacking attacks is rising, but also that this trend is currently showing no signs of slowing…

Facebook has added streaming to user profiles from desktop and laptop computers, allowing users to go live right from their timeline. Users have had the ability to stream from their phones and tablets for the past year, however, this feature had not yet been brought to computers. Facebook’s addition of…

“Power Rangers” is baloney through and through, but as baloney goes, it’s better than you might expect. It packs enough zing to make you forgive the origin-story clichés. And the predictable save-the-world stuff. And the insanely ubiquitous product placement. (Seriously, whatever Krispy Kreme paid to be an actual plot point…

The days of Google Talk are quickly coming to an end. As the company  announced, the messaging service that allowed Gmail users to talk to each other since it launched in 2005, will now be completely retired. Even while Google pushed Hangouts as its consumer messaging service (before Allo, Duo, Hangouts Chat and…

Google recently announced the new version of Hangouts, which is focussed on catering enterprises. Now that Google is more keen on developing Android Messages as a unified messaging platform for Android, the company is reportedly stripping Hangouts of SMS feature. As Android Messages is Google’s RCS (Rich Communication Service) product, the…