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Yesterday, Nigeria became the first African country where Elon Musk’s SpaceX internet service, Starlink, became active. This announcement comes seven months after Musk initially announced that Starlink had received approval to launch in Nigeria—and Mozambique.  According to the website, Starlink offers speeds of 50–200Mbps in most areas in Nigeria—an upgrade …

Half of Zimbabwe’s population has no access to the internet, a cabinet minister has said, warning that digital exclusion reinforces and deepens existing economic and social preclusion. ICTs minister Jenfan Muswere said although internet penetration has been increasing and now stands at just over 60 percent countrywide, actual access remains …

Zimbabwe sent its first satellite into orbit on Monday, part of the Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Project-5 (BIRDS-5) sponsored by Japan. The small satellite, which Zimbabwe hopes will help in land use planning and weather preparedness, was on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft which blasted from NASA’s Wallops Flight …

The United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Sunday scrubbed the launch of a rocket that would have taken Zimbabwe’s first satellite into obit. Zimbabwe, Uganda and Japan are sending small CubeSats into low-earth obit – the first for the African countries. NASA said the attempted launch of …

Pupils aged 11 and above can now start learning robotics and software engineering in Bulawayo following the launch of a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) start-up laboratory in the city. Established by a former secondary science teacher, Mr Masuku, Science MakerLab aims to revolutionise science learning in the country. …

Journalists and other stakeholders are gathered at UNESCO headquarters in Harare this morning for a pre-commemoration workshop centred on the upcoming International Day for Universal Access To Information (IDUAI). The main aim of IDUAI this year will be to strengthen the implementation of the right to information by promoting access …

By Mercy Mungoriwo Young innovative content creators are set to benefit from a lined up event to be hosted by the Content Creators Network ZW in Harare next month, Nhau has learnt.  Scheduled for November 8-12, 2021; the event will be hosted at Moto Republic according to Content Creators Network …

Facebook Inc (FB.O) is now called Meta, the company said on Thursday, in a rebrand that focuses on building the “metaverse,” a shared virtual environment that it bets will be the successor to the mobile internet. The name change comes as the world’s largest social media company battles criticisms from lawmakers and …

Investor confidence in Facebook weakened a bit on Monday amid continued political pressure and a rare lengthy outage of the company’s apps, sending shares down 4.8% and zapping away billions from CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune. Zuckerberg’s fortune declined by $5.9 billion to a mere $117 billion in total. (He’s now …

The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, which seeks to punish those who abuse the social media, internet and communication networks and make the growing financial digital systems and e-commerce more efficient and better protected, has gone through Parliament and now awaits the assent of the President when it will …