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Category: Blog

A new implant could provide early detection of kidney transplant rejection

2023-09-132023-09-13 Danie
An index finger with a small flat yellow device about 5mm long sitting on the finger tip.

Organ transplantation can considerably extend the recipient’s life, but organ failure can occur at any time, especially if the host rejects the organ. Madhvapathy et al. developed a bioelectronics-based approach to track acute kidney organ […]

Bloghealth, technology

What is WhatsApp Plus, and how does it differ from WhatsApp?

2023-09-132023-09-13 Danie
Round blue logo with a thick white border, and a V-shaped teardrop at the bottom left. In the centre of the blue circle is a while outline of an old phone handle.

A concern over WhatsApp is the inability to control your public privacy (especially as it’s Terms of Service still include passing your metadata upstream to Meta). Contacts who pay close attention can learn more about […]

Blogprivacy, technology, whatsapp

Mission Center: Another New GUI System Monitoring Tool for Linux

2023-09-132023-09-13 Danie
Mission Center dashboard showing a column on the left side of choices between CPU, Memory, Disk 0, Ethernet, Other, Wi-Fi, and GPU, and the main part of the screen showing a block with a utilisation graph for each CPU core.

Mission Center is a new, visually pleasing GTK4 and Libadwaita-based system monitoring tool written in Rust and explicitly designed for Linux. It uses OpenGL rendering for all the graphs to reduce CPU and overall resource […]

Bloglinux, technology, utilities

Thank You EU: WhatsApp working on cross-platform interoperability with other messengers

2023-09-112023-09-11 Danie
Smartphone screen showing time and icons along the very top, and just below that is a title saying "Third-party chats" with a back arrow to the left of it.

The European Union has recently reached an agreement on a significant competition reform known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will impose strict rules on large tech companies that will have to offer users […]

BlogEU, interoperability, privacy, technology, whatsapp

SA Mobile Network Operators recycling Cellphone ‘unused’ numbers without notifying Customers

2023-09-092023-09-09 Danie
Background shows 4 columns of newspaper print, with a man in the foreground, looking in surprised amazement at the cellphone in his hand.

From Daily Maverick 9 Sep 2023: Vodacom recycles numbers after four months of inactivity, whereas Cell C, MTN and Telkom do so after three months. These operators argue that the practice is driven by the […]

BlogRICA, sim, southafrica, technology

Postmarks is a decentralised self-hosted Fediverse successor to the old del.ici.us bookmarking service

2023-09-082023-09-08 Danie
A website page that looks like a white postcard, with the top left showing a postal stamp mark and the word Postmarks. The centre shows a list of bookmark names, each with a date, link, an annotated description, some hashtags. Under each entry is an indication of what the comment count is, and a link to edit the bookmark.

The successor to Web 2.0 bookmarking site del.icio.us is here, but this time, it’s built for the open web and the Fediverse — the decentralized collection of social networks that includes the Twitter/X competitor Mastodon […]

Blogbookmarks, fediverse, Postmarks, technology

How Afripods is trying to grow the podcast market in Africa

2023-09-082023-09-08 Danie
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The podcasting market is growing rapidly across Africa, especially amongst its Gen Z population. Afripods, an all-in-one podcast platform, is trying to accelerate that growth. The platform is geared toward African creators and audiences and […]

Blogafrica, culture, podcast, technology

Researchers show how Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords for popular sites such as Gmail, Cloudflare, Facebook, etc

2023-09-072023-09-08 Danie
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In case one thinks this is just for three or four websites, the research measurements showed that from the top 10k websites (as per Tranco), roughly 1,100 are storing user passwords in plain text form […]

Blogbrowsers, security, technology

Inside SA Rugby’s technology data-driven approach to the Boks winning the sport’s biggest tournament

2023-09-062023-09-06 Danie
Two SA rugby players holding up the Rugby World Cup tother with the South African President, with a big crowd in the background

From Maree’s description, Saru’s technological ecosystem can be delineated into two distinct processes: data collection and data-driven decision making. The main tool used for data collection is a GPS tracker, called a GPS pod, which […]

Blogrugby, southafrica, technology

The Secret System That Allows Waze to Find Faster Routes Than Google Maps: The difference is more than just cosmetic

2023-09-042023-09-04 Danie
Android Auto view of the Waze navigation app showing an upcoming turn to the right in 35km at the top left, on the bottom left a warning syaing Car stopped with options for still there or not there, and on the right a map with a car at the bottom and a purple route extending ahead of it, and a title in yellow stating 'Beat This, Google Maps!'

Waze might look like “just another navigation app” at first glance, but in reality, the Google-owned software provides a more advanced feature package that you won’t find elsewhere. The first thing you must know is […]

Blognavigation, technology

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