Remember that scene from ‘The Dark Knight’ where Bruce Wayne mapped a building using a smartphone? Well that shit just became a reality.

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Look, it’s the day’s almost over. This animated compression of Pulp Fiction in 60 seconds will delight and titillate you.

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Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev, leaving his luxurious compound unoccupied. Opposition protesters found this to be the perfect opportunity to go and take a look at the ousted president’s residence.

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In one week’s time, Oscar Pistorius will stand trial for murder. Beeld newspaper have put together 21 burning questions that need to be answered.

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Even God has a Twitter account, so why not Pistorius’s PR team. A week before Oscar Pistorius goes on trial his public relations team have set up a Twitter account, that claims to reveal the truth about the trial’s proceedings.

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Taking over the reins of the family business after the person who was running it kicked the bucket is a daunting task. But it becomes a much greater feat when you have to dance with your father’s killer. On top of that, your dance partner is a snake.

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The Sochi Winter Olympic has provided us with a couple of momentous fails that we will cherish until the next games. The couple that stand out were the no loo fishing allowed sign, the double toilet fiasco and the Opening Ceremony’s Olympic ring mechanical failure. The Russians however did show they saw the comedy in their errors during the Closing Ceremony.

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Don’t know if we should be more impressed with Miley Cyrus kissing Katy Perry during her performance at Los Angeles’ Staples Center or that she kept “singing” during the kiss. Here is the proof that Miley kissed a girl and she liked it.

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Leave it to the tax man to get the job done. An investigation by the SARS elite Tax and Customs Enforcement Investigations (TCEI) unit has linked members of the Zuma family to organised crime. Two of the companies under investigation had employed Zuma’s son, Edward, and his nephew, Khulubuse. They are thought to have been employed as “political insurance.”

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If english isn’t your home language in South Africa, there is a very high chance that you speak more than one language. And if you do, take this moment to bask in the glory that is your superior brain.

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Being a Mexican cartel kingpin pays really well. After a decade long manhunt, the elusive Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was detained in Mazatlán, Mexico. Rated as the number one supplier of illegal drugs in the US, he even made the Forbes billionaire list.

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Shane Warne recently hinted that he wanted to rekindle his relationship with his former fiancee, so the cricket legend spent some time with Liz Hurley over Valentine’s weekend to reconcile. But mere hours after they parted ways, he had lunch with another woman.

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Mellowcabs may be the solution to the traffic clogged city hubs of South Africa. SA entrepreneur, Neil du Preez and his electricity-assisted human-powered microcab has won the regional award in a prestigious global technology competition.

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Kickstart your photographic career with a Canon EOS 1100D Starter Bundle, including an 18-55DC lens, Sandisk 8GB card and Stockholm bag. Budding photographers take their first steps into the world of DSLR photography with the advanced, compact Canon EOS 1100D. Housing a 12.2 megapixel CMOS sensor, 63-zone metering and DIGIC processing, the 1100D offers great […]

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This year Ultra Music Festival made its inaugural debut on the African continent. South Africa hosted the electronic dance music festival for the first time in Cape Town and Johannesburg in the month of Feb. For those that missed out here’s something to make you even more jealous.

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Pornhub has found that SA watches porn longer on average, than the rest of the world. Out of their estimated 35 million daily users, 91000 are South African and they watch much longer than the world average

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One of South Africa’s greatest entrepreneurs, Koos Bekker, is stepping down as CEO of Naspers, a company he helped build into the monster it is today. Click for more, as well as our interview with Koos.

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We all know that the photos published in women’s fashion magazines – correction, all magazines – have spent a dubiously large amount of time under the Photoshop brush. The star of the hit show ‘Girls’ recently did a photo shoot for Vogue. In the show Lena Dunham’s character is known for her homely but real appearance. So when the blog Jezebel attacked Dunham on her photo’s as “probably not terribly real,” the star voiced her opinions.

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The only Oscar making news headlines of late has been the blade runner, but the Academy Awards are just around the corner. The people over at the Daily Beast got their hands on one of the 6,000 Oscar voters willing to spill the beans. Here are a couple of tips the anonymous voter has for us, concerning the upcoming Academy awards.

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Samsung are trolling Apple again. Hard. Remember the iPad pencil ad? Yep, well, so does Samsung. Here’s the ad they’re spoofing:

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Bad news for Muslims dreaming of going where no man has gone before. Islamic clerics have banned Muslims from living on Mars. But there is some logic behind this, considering you will most likely die from the red planet’s harsh environment.

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The ‘I got a girl pregnant’ prank is a tried and tested classic. It ranks right up there with Glad Wrapping a toilet seat. Watch as 16-year-old, Emmanuel Kellam, tells his ‘African Dad’ he got a 14-year-old girl pregnant. Hilarity ensues.

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Two years ago everyone was talking about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram for $1 billion. Back then we thought it to be an abhorrently large amount of money for a site almost dedicated to cat pictures, duck face selfies and filtered food porn. Well Facebook’s recent purchase of WhatsApp dwarfs that deal.

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If you’re a delegate at this year’s Design Indaba and you share your design via Twitter, you’ll earn Design Dollars to redeem at the DID store, and the chance to win a professionally rendered schematic drawing, prototype and trademark of their design. Quite mean.

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The last available spot in the Ski Cross semifinals was decided by a photo finish. What makes it so awesome was that the three contestants vying for the coveted place in the semifinals all crashed over the finishing line.

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If you’re going to be a complete a-hole and threaten people with a fake gun as you drive by, it’s probably best not to post those hijinks to any kind of social media. Twenty-one-year-old Daron Stinson is facing a host of felonies after he “pretended” to rob and shoot at frightened pedestrians with a pellet […]

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In the days leading up to Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, Google CEO Larry Page was willing to beat Facebook’s offer. So what happened that caused WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to decline Google?

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Welcome to Sudan, where you’ll be sentenced to one month jail for “indecent activity” if you’re unlucky enough to suffer gang rape. On the one hand, you get off “lightly” when authorities suspend the sentence because you’re pregnant. On the other hand, you also get fined $625. That’s what happened to an Ethiopian teenager in […]

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EWN reports that details of the state’s case against murder accused, Oscar Pistorius have been leaked. The state has set out 13 facts on which it will base the bulk of its argument. They will argue that Pistorius told security guards moments after shooting Reeva Steenkamp that everything was fine at his Pretoria East home. Check out the rest of their case, below.

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This is the coolest yet most bizarre “children’s” book ever. ‘Movies R Fun!’ will have you tucking in your kids with the famous words of Buffalo Bill – “It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.”

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