Hulu is bringing its Watch Party social viewing feature to its livestreamed election news coverage, provided via its existing partnership with ABC News Live. The company announced today it will allow its on-demand customers to test Watch P…
Spotify confirmed today it has begun to roll out support for standalone streaming on its Apple Watch app. The feature had been spotted in testing back in September, and arrives roughly two years after Spotify debuted its dedicated Apple Wa…
China’s suspension of Ant Group’s $37 billion listing just days ahead of its stock market debut has thrown the company and its investors into a tailspin and it faces a scramble to try and satisfy financial regulators, analysts say.
The …
Plans to beam 5G signals to the public via drones that stay airborne for nine days at a time have been announced by two UK firms.
They want to use antenna-equipped aircraft powered by hydrogen to deliver high-speed connectivity to wide …
Voters in California have passed a measure that will see freelance workers continue to be classified as independent contractors, in a victory for companies such as Uber and Lyft.
It overturns a landmark labour law passed last year that …
Uber has completed over 100 million successful face mask verifications globally
The University of Johannesburg spends in excess of over R6 million per month on data costs to allow for e-learning
Phishing emails are among the top c…
New six-cylinder Ingenium diesel: Smooth and refined in-line diesel engine is available in two power outputs of D240 and range-topping D300
Defender X-Dynamic: Bridging the gap between Defender and Defender X models, new X-Dynamic…
The new RF version of Canon’s EF 50mm f/1.8 STM – nicknamed the ‘nifty fifty’ lens for its versatility - is perfect for enthusiast photographers transitioning to the EOS R System
Continuing its commitment to providing mirrorless solutio…
Apple is closing out the year with another big event, Twitter details its plans to fight election-related misinformation and WeWork employees used an embarrassingly insecure printer password. This is your Daily Crunch for November 2, 2020.…
Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it has linked up with Ant Group-backed Indonesian startup Bukalapak and will invest in the e-commerce platform.
Under the deal, Bukalapak will adopt Microsoft's cloud platform Azure and provide digital ski…
Volkswagen AG VOWG_p.DE launched two ID.4 electric sport-utility vehicle models in China on Tuesday, taking on Tesla Inc in the world's biggest auto market.
The ID.4 CROZZ model is being made by Volkswagen’s joint venture with FAW Group…
China’s Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest PC maker, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday and said it is continuing to benefit from “new normal” remote working after COVID-19.
The Chinese giant said it set new record…
Baby Shark, the infuriatingly catchy children's rhyme recorded by South Korean company Pinkfong, has become the most-watched video ever on YouTube.
The song has now been played 7.04 billion times, overtaking the previous record holder D…
A whole computer contained in a keyboard - just connect it to a monitor and you are ready to go.
It sounds like an idea from the 1980s. Remember the ZX Spectrum, the Commodore Amiga or the BBC Micro?
Well, the 2020 version is the Pi …
Virtual Africa Tech Festival
More outstanding headline speakers announced for what is going to be a seminal event
With the virtual Africa Tech Festival a little over a week away (09-12 November), Africa's telecommunications and techn…
Datacentrix introduces IBM Competency Centre, delivers virtual platform for networking, tech evaluation and content
High performing and secure ICT solutions provider, Datacentrix, has officially launched a virtual IBM Competency Centr…
Just two days left until we unveil the new, reliable, capable and durable pickup, Nissan Navara. Tune in to the Navara unveil at 12 p.m. Nov. 5 SAST.
About Nissan in South Africa
Nissan South Africa is the operational hub for Regional…
EMist launches the future of electrostatic sprayer technology
EMist® Disinfection Solutions today announced the launch of the EX-7000 TruElectrostatic™ Disinfectant Sprayer.
The EX-7000 is lightweight and ergonomic weighing in at jus…
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Sales of electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen-powered vehicles in China, the world’s biggest auto market, are forecast to rise to 20% of overall new car sales by 2025 from just 5% now, the State Council said on Monday.
Sales of so-call…
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Over the past few months the IPO market made it plain that some public investors were wi…
Steve Tomlin, who runs a Renault dealership in Britain, says sales of the Zoe small electric car have shot up this year, a turnaround he partly puts down to a fading of “range anxiety”, the fear of running out of power mid-journey.
The…
There aren't many in the US who are sure there'll be an election result on the night.
Due to unprecedented numbers of postal votes, there could be days - possibly weeks - between the end of voting and the declared result.
And in that…
Public vote to determine who is building a better and more inclusive digital world
The shortlist for the 2020 AfricaCom Awards has just been released. The annual awards are an industry benchmark acknowledging those who are leading the …
Polls closed in Tanzania's general elections on Wednesday, amid complaints of restricted internet access, resulting in increased downloads of a VPN software. There were numerous reports on outages of WhatsApp, Instagram, Google, and other …
Comcast’s latest earnings report includes some official user numbers for Peacock, the new streaming service from Comcast-owned NBCUniversal.
Specifically, Comcast says that Peacock has received nearly 22 million sign-ups since it launch…
PUBG Mobile, the sleeper hit mobile game, will terminate all service and access for users in India on October 30, two months after New Delhi banned the game in the world’s second largest internet market over cybersecurity concerns.
Indi…
Corsair Gaming today announced that it has acquired EpocCam, the software developer behind the iOS software of the same name. It’s easy to see why the gaming company would be interested in such an acquisition in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Polestar, the electric vehicle brand that was spun out of Volvo Car Group, has issued another recall for its newest electric vehicle.
The company is voluntarily recalling nearly 4,600 vehicles over what has been described as faulty inve…
WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app owned by Facebook, is now delivering roughly 100 billion messages a day, the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at the quarterly earnings call Thursday.
For some perspective, users…
Tesla has made good on founder and CEO Elon Musk’s promise to boost the price of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) software upgrade option, increasing it to $10,000 following the start of the staged rollout of a beta version of the software up…
Business is booming for America's tech giants.
Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google reported sales and profits figures on Thursday covering the three months to 30 September - and there was a common thread: growth shows no sign of slowing.…
Eating disorder charities have issued a warning about a "harmful" diet app that had been promoted on the Apple App Store to over-12s.
Carrot Fit aims "to transform your flabby carcass into a Grade A specimen of the human race" using enc…
The UK's data privacy watchdog has fined the Marriott Hotels chain £18.4m for a major data breach that may have affected up to 339 million guests.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said names, contact information, and passport…
Tesla Inc TSLA.O plans to add at least one new service center every week in 2021, Electrek reported on Thursday, citing a source familiar with the matter.
The electric carmaker has been expanding its network of service centers and Super…
Ford plans to reveal in November an all-electric version of its Ford Transit cargo van, the company said Wednesday as part of its broader third-quarter earnings report. The unveiling will showcase an electric van for all of the company’s g…
If there was any doubt that yesterday’s flogging of big tech CEOs by Senate republicans was anything other than an electioneering stunt, president Trump has thumped the point home by tweeting a video message to voters in which he bashes “b…
ByteDance on Thursday unveiled its first consumer hardware product, a smart light lamp with a display, that it says is part of its education technology portfolio as the Chinese internet giant continues to expand to categories beyond social…
True, the social networking app that promises to ‘protect your privacy,’ exposed private messages and user locations
True bills itself as the social networking app that will “protect your privacy.” But a security lapse left one of its s…
The chief executives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google faced more than three and a half hours of questions from US senators on Wednesday.
At present, the companies cannot be sued over what their users post online, or the decisions they m…
Australia’s Global Talent Visa Program, also known as the Global Talent Independent Program, is making waves across the Pacific, attracting dynamic, high-profile business leaders to the country’s shores, with many hailing from the US. The …
Microsoft Corp's MSFT.O cloud computing business slightly re-accelerated and its Teams messaging and collaboration software won new users, as a pandemic-driven shift to working from home and online learning drove quarterly results ahead of…
TikTok is continuing to expand despite coming under attack from the Trump administration in the US.
The Chinese-owned firm has announced a tie-up with online retailer Shopify to help businesses create video ads to promote their products…
TikTok is continuing to expand despite coming under attack from the Trump administration in the US.
The Chinese-owned firm has announced a tie-up with online retailer Shopify to help businesses create video ads to promote their products…
Facebook India's policy head Ankhi Das has resigned two months after the social media giant was embroiled in a hate speech controversy in the country.
The Wall Street Journal had accused Facebook of going easy on ruling party supporters…
The highly anticipated video game Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed again, pushing it weeks after the launch of the next-generation consoles.
The title is now set to go on sale on 10 December.
Staff had previously been told to work six…
The official website of US President Donald Trump has been hacked by an apparent cryptocurrency scam.
His re-election campaign team is investigating the security breach.
"The world has had enough of the fake news spreaded [sic] daily…
BT has signed a deal to use Ericsson's 5G radio antennas, base stations and other equipment to upgrade its EE mobile network.
BT said in time it expected 50% of all its 5G traffic to be transmitted via the Swedish company's kit.
The …
Huawei offers a comprehensive transportation solution, which leverages ICT technologies to digitize all transportation elements
In this special interview, DeeDee Doke, head of content production at Airlines. magazine interviews Mr. Wang…
A versatile home printer for work and play
Canon Europe (Canon-Europe.com) today announces the launch of the Canon PIXMA TS7440 series, a mid-level, three-in-one A4 home printer with four colour FINE ink cartridges and Automatic Documen…