3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (357+ words) Muse has apparently been replaced by Muse. The British rock band has lost its long-standing @Muse social media identity to an unlikely rival: Meta’s new AI assistant, also called Muse. As reported by The Independent, the band’s X account is…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (276+ words) Wednesday, September 9, 2026 Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million (R561 million) to settle a UK High Court group action brought by roughly 12,000 users, according to IBTimes UK. The claimants alleged the LGBTQIA+ dating app shared highly sensitive personal data, including HIV-related information…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (414+ words) Wednesday, September 2, 2026 Well, we knew that it was bound to happen. But now a recent study has confirmed most of our fears. While AI models are capable of imitating human traits – at least in text form – to a degree that…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (526+ words) Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Yesterday’s Lake America row was about Google Maps falling in line for US users, but today, MapQuest is emerging as the hero leading the resistance against petty name changes. According to TechCrunch, MapQuest’s iPhone app has shot to…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (438+ words) Monday, August 31, 2026 [Image: Robert David Linsdell / CC] Google Maps is now changing the name of a Great Lake depending on which side of the border is looking at it. For users in the United States, Lake Ontario is starting to…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (429+ words) Monday, August 31, 2026 Three years after Elon Musk retired the Twitter name in favour of X, a startup called Operation Bluebird is betting that the old brand still has enough pull to build a social network around it. But X isn’t…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (296+ words) Monday, August 24, 2026 Professional athletes better watch their backs, because the robots are coming for their gigs. In fact, a humanoid robot called Lightning taking part in the second-ever World Humanoid Robot Games managed to run the 100-metre in 9.32 seconds, ⁠beating…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (525+ words) SpaceX has finally come face to face with ICASA, which is a small but telling shift in South Africa’s long-running Starlink soap opera. Ryan Goodnight, SpaceX’s senior director for market access and development, appeared before the communications regulator on Wednesday…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (402+ words) South African companies using WhatsApp to answer customer queries are about to learn that a chat bubble can, in fact, come with an invoice. From 1 October 2026, Meta will start charging WhatsApp Business Platform users for service messages, the free-form replies…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (439+ words) There are political bedfellows, there are unlikely bedfellows, and then there is whatever the hell is happening with AfriForum and March and March. The two organisations have announced that they are going to work together through a new “collaborative working…...