DStv Family is the third offering on DStv Zimbabwe’s bouquets and makes more sense than the cheaper packages. When you subscribe to the family package you get a total of 128 channels. Don’t get too excited though, more than half (66) are audio channels. I have not once seen a person who sits on their
EcoCash has announced they will be suspending the use of their MasterCard internationally. This comes hot on the heels of news announcing you can use the card only after you fund it in USD Cash. In a statement on Facebook, the leading mobile money provider announced that the suspension of the card has been extended
Samsung Internet, the Android browser by Samsung, is now available on all android phones. The browser is available on devices running Lollipop and beyond from the Play Store. Samsung Internet was previously available only on their own devices. Earlier this year, they extended support to Google devices in a beta. Now that the beta period
Google placed cheese under the meat patty on their burger emoji, and Twitter went nuts. Sundar Pichai, the CEO, quickly resolved the issue and correctly placed the burger. But that wasn’t before Twitterati had scrutinised the burger emoji. They presented extensive research which displayed a discrepancy between where the cheese had been placed by Google versus
Google has developed a new way to connect Bluetooth headphones called FastPair. The new pairing method will save you going into settings to pair your headphones. When a supported device is nearby, you’ll get a notification on your phone. Tap the notification and pairing is complete. No need to go through the Settings. Furthermore, if
WhatsApp now lets you delete sent messages from the recipient’s phones, albeit within a short space of time. This was a long-awaited feature that everyone hoped would come. Currently, when you delete a message it only disappears from your phone. This means the recipient can still view the erratic message ;-). With the new feature,
In Tech that shouldn’t exist, we have a $130 fork. Nissin has announced they will be releasing a Noise Cancelling fork to help reduce noise pollution. The company designed the fork to eliminate the slurping sounds you make when eating noodles. You may consider the noise an appreciation to the chef but to others, it is a
Google is offering white hat hackers up to USD 1000 to take part in bug hunting. The offer applies to the most popular applications in the Play Store, as well as their own apps. To join the program, a white hat hacker finds an exploit and demonstrates the vulnerability. Only Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities
After being praised for not having a kill switch, it appears the NotPetya ransomware has a weakness after all. When it starts running, the malware checks for its own filename. If found, it then stops encrypting. Researchers are not totally sure they have found the real filename, but so far they found one that works
Hot on the heels of WannaCry is a variant Petya Ransomware and it’s spreading across the world. The ransomware first attacked in Ukraine, and reports are now coming in from other countries. The Petya/GoldenEye malware encrypts both the drive and files then demands a $300 ransom in Bitcoin. Cyber security companies have identified the ransomware
