A typical person may be ingesting 5g of microplastics every week, or the equivalent of the weight of a credit card.

Microsoft said a new service that will let users play videogames from their Xbox consoles on their smartphones will be offered for free.

Slack Technologies is expected to be valued by investors at $16-billion to $17-billion when it lists its shares publicly next week, according to people familiar with the matter.

Google is moving some production of Nest thermostats and server hardware out of China, avoiding punitive US tariffs and an increasingly hostile government in Beijing.

Promoted | Vox has announced the launch of a Managed Firewall Service aimed specifically at South Africa’s small and medium-sized enterprises.

Naspers’s PayU agreed to buy Turkish digital payments company Iyzico for R2.4-billion in its biggest fintech acquisition yet.

The fading facades of century-old buildings in a neighbourhood of the Nigerian megacity of Lagos house a vibrant technology cluster that’s caught the eye of Facebook and Google.

WhatsApp is to take legal action against anyone it determines is linked to abusing the messaging app’s terms of service around spam messages, the company has said.

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Dropbox has unveiled the biggest overhaul yet to the way users experience its software as it seeks to push further into the productivity market dominated by Microsoft and Google.