Facebook has decided that the Like button is not expressive enough and is going to add five new icons, called “Reactions”, that it calls “angry, sad, wow, haha and love”. Reactions have been tested with users in a number of different countries, while Facebook observed how they
Axed Idols judge Gareth Cliff won a mammoth lawsuit against M-Net on Friday, hours before the first auditions for the show were due to start. The celebrity won his bid to be reinstated as a judge of the popular talent scouting show, Judge Caroline Nicholls ruled in the high
Let’s start at a common point of departure: the mere notion of mobile operators hoping that so-called “over-the-top” services be regulated is insanity. One can understand how an operator and its executives can think this rational, though. After all, an operator only knows how
Construction work in Egypt is a key reason behind fibre cuts that have disrupted Internet services in South Africa twice in one week. This is according to Claes Segelberg, who is the chief technical officer of undersea broadband cable provider Seacom
South African Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago on Thursday announced a 50 basis point increase in the repurchase rate to 6,75%, in line with the consensus. This means the prime lending rate will now be 10,25%. Lending rates have risen by a
Durban-headquartered technology services group Adapt IT expects headline earnings per share (Heps) to rise by as much as 47,4% in the six months ended 31 December 2015, it said in a statement on the JSE’s stock exchange news service on Thursday. The fast-growing
Two card cloners have been sentenced to a combined 18 years in jail by a Durban court, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Thursday. The Durban commercial crime court sentenced Luyanda Sapho, 34, to eight years, and Kinen Sithole, 33, to 10 years on Wednesday
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Seacom services between Africa and Europe went offline again on Thursday after fresh cable breaks in Egypt cut off African Internet users in East Africa and Southern Africa. It’s the second time in a week that terrestrial cable breaks in Egypt have disrupted
Researchers from Google DeepMind have developed the first computer able to defeat a human champion at the board game Go. But why has the online giant invested millions of dollars and some of the finest minds in artificial intelligence research to create a computer
