if you use Zoom video conferencing software on your Mac computer, any website you’re visiting in your web browser can turn on your device camera without your permission.

It’s somewhat short notice but Call of Duty: Black Ops IV is getting a bunch of new (paid-for, let’s not get too excited) content in the shape of Operation: Apocalypse Z. The new add-on, as the title suggests, brings more than its fair share of the shambling dead to Activision’s online shooter. 

Spotify’s Lite app has officially launched in 36 countries including South Africa. It’s designed to work on weak internet connections and is 10MB in size.

Africa’s burgeoning reputation as a source of programming talent got a major boost last month when Microsoft launched its Africa Development Centre (ADC) that will invest $100-milliion over the next five years.

It’s more likely that blockchain, and even Libra, is a means to a end; Calibra is about Facebook wanting to be not only the world’s biggest social media platform but also the globe’s go-to marketplace, putting Amazon, eBay, Apple and Google in the shade.

Amidst the US/China trade tensions, South Africa has pledged its support towards Huawei. Especially with the imminent rollout of 5G in the country. 

In an interesting twist in the tech Cold War, Huawei claims its own operating system called Hongmeng OS will be faster than both Android and iOS.

Man, these product tie-ins are getting complicated. Last week Microsoft teased a throwback to its initial Windows operation system, Windows 1.0. At the time, we had no idea why all the time travel. Now, we know. It was indeed a tie-in with Stranger Things Season 3, which released last week on that one holiday Americans are always surprised the rest of the world doesn’t celebrate. 

Mozilla has announced that it’s exploring some “alternative funding models for the web,” and is now testing an ad-free news subscription service.

Gestures and emoji don’t break down into smaller parts. Nor do they easily combine into larger words or sentences (unless we’re using a clunky version of the grammar of our language).