It’s a scary world out there, and if you have your eyes glued on your phone the whole time, you may butt heads with immovable objects frequently. In an effort to stop you from walking face first into a tree, a lamppost or fellow pedestrian while texting, Apple have filed a patent for ‘Transparent Texting.’

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Awkies… Who wore it best? Random and unfortunate wedding guest or the future queen of England? While attending a high society wedding an unnamed guest must have been mortified through the entire proceeding. Not only did she wear the same outfit as another guest, but the same outfit as Kate Middleton.

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Africa’s booming tech industry is mainly dominated by males, but there are couple of women who have founded innovative tech companies, including these women.

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George Clooney, considered Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor, has a new squeeze. But she is a bit out of the norm, not one of his cookie cutter companions – Amal Alamuddin has quite a head on her shoulders.

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Any variety of calendar holiday requires travelling. If you find yourself away from your home base with your progeny in toe this coming easter, you need to hit the Maslow. Actually, that goes for those for those of you hosting family in Joburg this Easter. Do you really want to spend your time cooking food, washing dishes, and removing pieces of lego from a toddler’s mouth?

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MS Office has been the leader in word processor and spreadsheet program markets for ages, but it was only available to desktop or laptop users. Finally, Office has finally been released for the iPad. Here is a preview of it in action.

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So most of you have been glued to your screens every evening watching MNET’s MasterChef Australia. And more than a handful of you have probably been watching MasterChef Australia to drool at the pectoral glory of contestant number 16, Mr.Daniel Churchill.

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For one hour on Saturday, famous landmarks around the world went dark. The outages weren’t the results of unplanned Eskom load shedding, but for Earth Hour. More than 7,000 cities in 150 countries got in the act of switching off lights for one hour.

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It isn’t a man strapped with a GoPro to his head falling from the upper stratosphere, but still cool nonetheless. It’s strange how kayaker Dane Jackson’s ball’s of steel didn’t cause him to drown, when he dropped 18.3m down a waterfall in his kayak.

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That is correct. Shrien Dewani will very likely be staying in Valkenberg after he lands in South Africa from 8 April to stand trial for the murder of his wife, Anni Dewani. Shrien will enjoy a direct overnight flight from London to Cape Town. Upon landing he’ll be transferred straight to the High Court, where he’ll be charged in the presence of his lawyer.

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Here’s a little treat to kick off the week. The audience members at the Caddyshack-themed restaurant in Florida were in for a surprise. Bill Murray. ‘House of the Rising Sun’. Tambourine. Enough Said.

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Texas woman spends R260,000 on plastic surgery to look like her idol Jennifer Lawrence. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but going under the knife is just a tad creepy to become a doppelganger.

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Stay in the loop with a Blackberry 8700, 9380 or 9790. Packed with useful tools, these phones all feature Blackberry’s own operating system, custom made to fit their phones. Boasting 3.5mm input jacks, high resolution screens and either a 806 MHz, 312 MHz or an 11 GHz CPU, the Blackberry is taking the world by storm, join the revolution.

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Rolene Strauss was crowned the Miss South Africa for 2014 on Sunday. The 21-year-old medical student, currently studying in Bloemfontein, hails from Mpumalanga. Please enjoy some pics of the beautiful Rolene Strauss.

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After weeks of searching, there is still no sign of the MH370 wreckage. All that the extensive search for MH370 has found is some floating trash in the Indian Ocean. So what’s up? Take a look at this theory by a YouTube user, Montagraph. He suspects flight MH370 is being held at a military airbase.

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A few hours ago, Gareth Cliff announced via Twitter that today’s show on 5fm would be his last. That’s correct – if you missed the show, then you will never hear Gareth Cliff on 5fm ever again. But you’ll probably hear him via his own thing that he’s setting up. Here’s the statement from his website:

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More objects found – not from plane. Black box detector en route. “Zuma must rot in jail” (guess who?). Drug mule dumps kids. Wu Tang Clan is releasing ONE copy of their new album. LA gets 5.1 earthquake. Surfboard innovator dies. Gwyneth breaks silence.

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For many people, buying a car is a very big deal. There is lots of money involved, and banks are looking your bed, and people are throwing in maintenance plans that have voidance clauses if you put eyelashes on your bonnet and stuff like that. It’s just ALL very hectic. The last thing you think of is the option to haggle. Paradigm shift: You can haggle the price of your car, with any dealer.

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In an apocalyptic future, the remaining humans might look back on October 2016, as judgement day; or most likely the advent of the coolest new sporting games: Cybathlon. The Swiss National Competence Center of Research will be hosting a championship for “robot-assisted parathletes” during October 2016 in Zurich.

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Pharrell’s joyful song ‘Happy’ becomes a morose and gloomy effigy of depression, by simply changing the key. The Gregory Brothers have done likewise with other songs, new and old, making some sad and others happy.

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Sochi, Russia, post the 2014 Winter Olympics is looking a little, er, dead. Deader than dead actually. In fact we would go as far as to say that the next time Hollywood sends out a location scout to find the perfect spot to shoot a block-buster Zombie apocalypse flick, Sochi should be the location of choice.

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Police have opened a murder investigation, after the body of a 53-year-old man was found drifting in the sea next to a burning life raft in the Caribbean Sea, near the island of St Vincent. A diver found sailing instructor John Edward Garner’s body after seeing smoke from his life raft close to a burnt-out yacht.

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Why on earth is a plant with so many incredible properties and potential to revolutionize the way we build homes, generate energy, feed our population, heal disease and make textiles still illegal?

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It was quite a monumental moment, landing one of the most important leaders in the world, have him sit between two ferns, throw jabs at a pudgy, bearded comedian and take the comebacks in stride. Funny or Die’s recent high-profile guest, President Barack Obama, is a testament to the online comedy platform “sticking to [their] knitting.”

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AND frikkin lasers. No really. I’ve never really trusted Mark Zuckerberg. He’s very pink, and he has inky black eyes that would be unnervingly shiny if they weren’t windows into an infinite chasm of evil. So I’m not surprised that he’s planning to use his multi-billion dollar company to launch a squadron of solar-powered drones, even if he says that he’ll use them to provide internet access to underdeveloped countries.

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Twitter’s recent tweaks to their photo sharing experience allows tweeters to tag people in posted photos. So before you get your panties in a bunch about the tagging, here’s how you can disable the function if you want to.

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Destroying things with lightsabers, scaling rooftops with his grappling hook and nailing death defying stunts over a pit of molten magma is but child’s play for this three-year-old kid. Check out these awesome clips of ‘Action Movie Kid.’

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Is dividing your attention between all your different social media accounts wearing your psyche thin? WeCam allows you to connect to all your Twitter, Facebook and Google+ friends using one app, and you can also talk to them face-to-face.

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Jet setting and globetrotting aren’t necessarily the most environmentally friendly pastimes. To encourage responsible traveling, Ethical Traveler has rated travel destinations according to four categories, to determine which countries you should visit if you want to maintain the moral high ground among your well-traveled friends.

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In an interview with GQ magazine, Liam Neeson recounts the moment when Woody Allen’s lawyer told the director that Mia Farrow had found nude photos of their adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn in Allen’s apartment. Liam Neeson was busy going down on Judy Davis when the news broke.

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