‘Vote Zuma 2014’ T-Shirts  Dropped Off Outside Mandela Hospital – Hundreds of ANC supporters were bussed to the Pretoria hospital where Mandela is being treated. T-shirts bearing President Jacob Zuma’s face were offloaded by a truck, easily identifiable as one hired by the party by the enormous picture of the president displayed on its side and rear. 30 buses were also offloaded with branded supporters. [mail&guardian + citypress]

Row Over Mandela Grave Deepens As Children Are Re-Exhumed – The dispute between members of Nelson Mandela’s family over where South Africa’s first black president should be buried has taken a new, rather bizarre turn. [msn]

Mandela ‘Trying To Open Eyes’ – A critically ill Nelson Mandela still opens his eyes when his family communicates with him and reacts to their touch, his eldest daughter revealed yesterday. [timeslive]

Obama Won’t Send Jets To Intercept Snowden – The United States won’t be scrambling military jets or engaging in high-level diplomatic bartering to get National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden extradited to the U.S., President Barack Obama said Thursday, dismissing Snowden as “a 29-year-old hacker.” [huffers]

WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant For The FBI – Thordarson was long time volunteer for WikiLeaks with direct access to Assange and a key position as an organizer in the group. With his cold war-style embassy walk-in, he became something else: the first known FBI informant inside WikiLeaks. [wired]

Google Is Developing Android Game Console And Smartwatch – Google Inc. is developing a videogame console and wristwatch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet company seeks to spread the software beyond smartphones and tablets. [wallstreetjournal]

Discovery Could Boost Internet Bandwidth – A new fibre optic technology could increase internet bandwidth capacity by sending data along light beams that twist like a tornado rather than move in a straight line. [smh]

Venezuela Finds Italian Fashion Boss’s Crashed Plane – Venezuela said on Thursday it had found the crashed plane of Italian fashion executive Vittorio Missoni that went missing in January after taking off from the Los Roques archipelago in the Caribbean six months ago. [reuters]

Another Day, Another British Sex Ring – Two sets of brothers have been jailed for life for their sadistic abuse and rape of young girls (as young as 11) as part of a sex ring they operated for seven years. [skynews]

Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Indicted On 30 Counts – A federal grand jury Thursday returned a 30-count indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings, providing new detail about his interest in radical Islamist literature and describing for the first time messages he scrawled inside a dry-docked boat just before his capture. [washpo]

Sean Parker: Still an Asshole 10,000 Words Later – TechCrunch just changed industry apologetics forever, permitting (inviting?) Facebook billionaire Sean Parker to post a nearly 10,000-word self-serving, unintentionally hilarious screed in defense of his tacky forest-nymph-themed wedding. [valleywag]

Bible Signed By Einstein Sells For R680,000 in NYC – A Bible with an inscription from Albert Einstein has sold for $68,500 at an auction in New York City. [newyorktimes]

Mouse Cloned From Drop Of Blood – Scientists in Japan have cloned a mouse from a single drop of blood. Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone, a team at the Riken BioResource Center reports in the journal Biology of Reproduction. Good job, gang. [bbc]

Duchess Of Cambridge: The World Is Going Wild For The Royal Baby – Knitted kangaroos in Australia, baby showers in the US, Niagara Falls to be lit up pink or blue. Kate’s bump has gone global. [telegraph]

Google Earth for iOS Gets Street View – Google Earth for iOS has been updated to include Street View, thus catching up with its Android counterpart which received that functionality in May 2013. [mashable]

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Masterchef’s Shanon Smuts On 2 Girls 1 Mic at 13h00 – You may know that @KaminiPather has made the Top 16 in the latest season of Master Chef SA. This lends itself well for interviews with her fellow contestants, as well as chats with chefs, sponsors and others who were part of the show. Every week #2Girls1Mic will bring you exclusive #MCSA-related content right here at @2OVfm. The first of these interviews is with Shannon Smuts, the 1st contestant to be eliminated from the Master Chef kitchen. Let’s hear what she is up to now that her journey in the kitchen has come to an end. [2girls1mic]

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