Snap Stock Plummets After Kylie Jenner Declares Snapchat Dead – It’s been a rough week for Snap. The company’s update for Snapchat has been poorly received, and today, Snap’s stock price took another tumble following a tweet from Kylie Jenner declaring that she was done with the social imaging app. [verge]
D-Day For Zuma Prosecution – It’s D-Day for Jacob Zuma. By midnight on Friday‚ a five-person prosecuting team will have to recommend to National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams whether or not to go ahead with the prosecution of the former president. [tlive]
Donald Trump Boldly Suggests Movies, Video Games Should Get A “Rating System” – Trump’s solution for the rampant violence targeting young Americans is something that already exists. [van]
Armed Officer At Florida School Shooting ‘Never Went Inside To Confront Gunman’ – The armed officer on duty at the Florida school hit by a shooting massacre never went inside to confront the gunman and has been placed under investigation, police have announced. [evestan]
Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Anthrax Scare Treated As ‘Racist Hate Crime’ After Letter With White Powder Sent To Palace – The Royal Family has been caught up in an anthrax scare after a racist poison pen letter containing white powder was allegedly posted to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. [tele]
Michael Dell Purchased $100 Million Penthouse That Broke Manhattan Records – Tech billionaire Michael Dell was the buyer behind the record-setting sale of a Manhattan penthouse in 2014, two sources familiar with the deal told The Wall Street Journal. [cnbc]
Zimbabwe And Kenya Lead The Way In Africa’s Dash From Cash – “Drunks love paying by M-Pesa,” the owner of a bar in a low-income area of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, explained drily. “It’s easy to get conned when you have cash.” [guardian]
Harvey Weinstein Apologizes For Using Meryl Streep And Jennifer Lawrence As Legal Shields – Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein indirectly apologized to Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence for using their names and their words in an attempt to stop a class action lawsuit against himself after he was accused of sexual assault and misconduct by dozens upon dozens of women in Hollywood. [mash]
Court Finds Gigaba Lied Under Oath – The North Gauteng High Court has ruled that Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba lied under oath when he testified during his tenure as home affairs minister in a case filed by a company that wanted to open a private immigration terminal at the country’s biggest airport. [f24]
Online Content Editor Required In Cape Town – R30K A Month – If you can tell a ‘their’ from a ‘there’, and happen to fit the job description, you might just be staring your next job in the face. Go on, have a look. [here]
Over R1-million Raised For SA Children To Watch ‘Black Panther’ – More than 8,000 young South Africans from underprivileged backgrounds will watch “Black Panther”, Marvel’s first all-black superhero film, after a crowdfunding campaign raised more than R1-million to pay for their tickets. [huff]
AI Experts List The Real Dangers Of Artificial Intelligence – A 100-page report written by artificial intelligence experts from industry and academia has a clear message: Every AI advance by the good guys is an advance for the bad guys, too. [qz]
Lewis Hamilton Prepared For F1 Rivalry With Sebastian Vettel To Become Spikier – Lewis Hamilton has warned his relationship with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel could deteriorate and that he is “expecting the worst”. [guardian]
Telegram Is Holding A Secretive Second Pre-ICO Sale – Over the past few months, the CEO of Telegram convinced 81 accredited investors, including Silicon Valley giants Sequoia Capital and Benchmark, to give him $850 million in a presale of his company’s cryptocurrency in advance of an initial coin offering, or ICO. Now he’s trying to raise even more money from accredited investors before the coin gets offered to the public in a secretive second presale. [verge]
Mercedes & Ferrari Unveil Their Cars For The 2018 Formula 1 Season – Mercedes and Ferrari have unveiled their new cars for the 2018 Formula 1 season with high expectations of fighting again for the title. [bbc]
Video Shows How Insanely Fast The New Tesla Semi Truck Can Accelerate – YouTuber Richard Fielder caught the recently unveiled semi-truck driving through a residential street earlier this week. When it passed the 25 mph speed limit sign, it accelerated so quickly that its tires started smoking. [mash]
Black Panther’s African Footage Was Shot In The Free State – When Jonathan O’Connell, founder of the drone company Timeslice Cinematography, was asked to film landscapes for a movie called Black Panther, he didn’t think it was a big deal. In fact, in terms of what he does for most shoots, including filming car chases and explosions, he thought it was downright boring. [busins]
Brendan Fraser Says He Was Groped By H.F.P.A. Member In 2003: “I Became Depressed” – The actor says the alleged incident made him retreat from Hollywood: “Something had been taken away from me.” [van]
Quincy Jones Apologizes For Controversial Claims In Candid Interview: ‘I Am An Imperfect Human’ – Quincy Jones took to Twitter on Thursday to apologize for recent headline-making comments he made about a number of Hollywood’s elite, including Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando, Richard Pryor, and the Beatles. [var]
Jennifer Aniston’s Heartless Media Crucifixion – In the wake of her split from Justin Theroux, the same tired tabloid narratives are taking hold. And it’s a damn shame. [beast]
How And Why ‘Text Neck’ Is Becoming An Actual Health Problem – We know that bending over our phones all day is not a healthy way to live, but what happens when the pain that is caused never ceases? [here]
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