Five African tech trends

Trends include delivery drones, pay-as-you-go off-grid power, and using blockchain to prevent land disputes.

Spotify sued for $1.6 billion video – CNET

Wixen Music Publishing says Spotify is streaming its clients' songs without a license, and it wants…

LG 2018 TVs tap Google Assistant, Alexa for voice control – CNET

LG has announced that its high-end 2018 TVs will include voice control via Google Assistant built…

LG OLED TVs don’t mess with success in 2018 – CNET

The best TVs we've ever tested get mostly minor tweaks this year, including improved processing, high…

Google search glitch says LaVar Ball founded NBA – CNET

Commentary: In an embarrassing mistake, Google's search engine decides that the bombastic father of the Lakers…

Study Finds Facebook was the Biggest Distributor of Fake News

The study looked at web traffic from 2,500 Americans in the time before and after the…

"Trackmageddon" Vulnerabilities Discovered in (GPS) Location Tracking Services

Two security researchers —Vangelis Stykas and Michael Gruhn— have published a report on a series of…

Each of us streamed 1,036 songs last year (and most of them were by Ed Sheeran)

UK music fans streamed 68.1 billion songs last year, an average of 1,036 songs per person.