Tech news, gadgets, and infrastructure, from quick hits to the trends shaping what's next.
ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera calls the wave of WhatsApp Business takeovers unprecedented and says POTRAZ, the police and Meta are investigating, including the role of SMS aggregators, while Econet has twice told customers to lock down their accounts.
Ocular AI, co-founded by Zimbabwe's Louis Murerwa and Zambia's Michael Moyo, has raised $2 million to build the data and tests that tell AI labs whether their voice models actually work, the kind of checking no African institution yet does for the continent.
Econet's chief executive says AI tools found large numbers of customers with faulty SIM cards or handsets set to the wrong network speed, and with 3G on its way out, here is what the company is claiming, what it hasn't shown, and the two-minute check you can do yourself.
Reserve Bank governor John Mushayavanhu says talks to build a real-time payments system on India's UPI technology could wrap up by 31 October, so here is what that would mean for EcoCash, ZIPIT and the fees you pay, going by what happened in Namibia.
ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera says SpaceX has agreed to build a Starlink ground station in Zimbabwe in early 2027, so here is what it would change for lag, for prices, and for online shopping and music, going by what happened in Kenya and Nigeria.
Meta Connect 2026 brought VR glasses, camera-free Ray-Bans and a big push for its Muse AI agent, but for readers in Southern Africa, the hardware is arriving well ahead of the AI that headlined the show.
A new pan-African programme is offering ten AI startups six weeks of support and up to $200,000 without taking a share of the company, and it arrives in a year when fewer founders on the continent are raising money than at any point since 2021.
A final-year MSU Computer Science student has been denied bail over an alleged US$1.1 million cyberheist at CABS, built on access he says never should have outlived his internship.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is its most capable model yet, and the first to cross a critical cybersecurity threshold. Here's why that matters either way.
Starlink went live in Uganda on 2 September at roughly double what Zimbabwean subscribers pay, reigniting the same affordability debate Zimbabwe had at launch.
Zimbabwe's Starlink base is closing in on fibre and nearly matches Nigeria's, an extraordinary curve for a country a fraction of its size. Here's why.
TikTok's US ban saga is over. Here's how the January 2025 shutdown played out, and how an Oracle-led ownership deal settled things for good.
Facebook paused its under-13 'Instagram Kids' app in 2021 over backlash. It never came back, here's what Meta did instead, up to its $18bn 2026 settlement.
Resident Evil 4 VR hit its October 21, 2021 launch date on Quest 2 and went on to win Best VR/AR Game at The Game Awards. Here's where it stands now.
A practical guide to picking a VPN in 2026, what it actually protects you from, why it matters more in Zimbabwe than most places, and which ones to trust.
Waste-to-energy could be a real opportunity for Africa, but Harare's own Pomona dumpsite deal shows how badly it can go if it isn't handled transparently.
Drone delivery has gone from novelty to real infrastructure, from Zipline's medical drones across Africa to Amazon Prime Air's US expansion.
A 2021 Starlink launch video revisited: how the constellation grew from 60 satellites to over 11,000, and 12 million users across 160+ countries.
3D printing has moved well past prototypes, it's now building rockets, entire housing communities, and early transplantable human tissue.
