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Your face is required to get Facebook verification
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (347+ words) Your face can now earn your Facebook account a verification badge. On Friday, Meta Platforms launched Facebook Verified, a badge that confirms there’s a real person behind a profile. The process works through selfie-based verification. Once a user is verified,…...
Is Google still a search engine?
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (533+ words) Twenty years ago, if you asked the average person what Google was, they’d tell you it was a search engine. The company became synonymous with searching for information online, reaching a level of dominance no search engine had seen before,…...
PropellerAds report highlights growing regulation and new compliance pressures in Telegram Mini App advertising
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (382+ words) PropellerAds says Telegram Mini App advertising is entering a harder, more structured phase. A year ago, the market was driven largely by rapid user spikes, crypto excitement, and game-led traffic. New material from the company suggests that policy changes, moderation,…...
Simo Mkhize: The Commercialisation Czar Behind an Innovative National Backbone
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (269+ words) In the mid-1990s, when mobile phones began chirping in the hands of South Africans, the future seemed preordained. The copper lines and switchboards of Telkom — then a state-rooted incumbent — looked like relics awaiting extinction. Analysts predicted an elegant demise. Agile mobile…...
The Generative Engine Optimization era has begun: NetRanks wants to define its rules
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (651+ words) There was a time when the internet felt like a library waiting to be explored. People typed questions into search bars, scanned lists of links, compared sources, and made decisions with some sense of agency. The process was imperfect, but…...
This foldable phone is winning the Crease Wars
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (574+ words) For some time now, reporting around Apple’s folding phone has coalesced around two beliefs: the device is set to drop this fall, and it will have a significantly less visible display crease than previous folding devices. But is it even…...
A look at some of the best smartphones of 2026, when it comes to exceptional battery life
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (374+ words) Here are the top 2026 smartphones with unmatched battery life, featuring the Nothing Phone (3) Pro’s 38 hours, Oppo Find X9 Pro’s 2-4 days, and Blackview Oscal Tank 1’s 67 hours, as silicon-carbon technology revolutionises power management. Picture: ChatGPT Smartphones in 2026 are a marvel of engineering,…...
This bar hosted an AI dating pop-up where singles matched with chatbots for Valentine’s Day
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (495+ words) Image: La Famiglia/Adobe Stock A quarter of adults younger than 30 say they’ve used AI for companionship, according to Associated Press-NORC polling. The one thing missing? Somewhere to take your AI valentine on a date. Ahead of Saint Valentine’s Day…...
You can now customise your Threads feed with the new 'Dear Algo' feature
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (462+ words) Threads is testing a simpler way for people to nudge their feed in a specific direction without digging through settings or retraining the algorithm long term. The new feature, called Dear Algo, lets users tell Threads what they want to…...
Meet Yahoo Scout: A direct response to AI search engines
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (786+ words) Yahoo may not be the most headlined company in tech anymore, but its reach can’t be denied. With nearly 250 million monthly users across the country and 700 million globally, it’s still the second most popular email client in the world, and…...