Sleek, functional, powerful – if you don’t subscribe to the cult of Mac, the Sony Vaio really should be the only laptop PC you look at. There are a whole bunch going for a song, right here
New studies show that the billionaires of this world didn’t get to where they are by luck, or even hard work, alone. It turns out that people who get really, really rich are basically just smarter than you.
A fire at a fertilizer plant in West Texas resulted in a massive explosion, producing multiple injuries and a death toll reported to be between 60 and 70 people.
According to newly released statistics by the Interactive Advertising Bureau in 2012, digital advertising hit a record high of $36,6 billion (R330 billion) in 2012. This spike was partly due to huge growth in mobile and video advertising.
Popular internet messaging board, 4Chan runs on a similar premise to that of Reddit – community collaboration is their favourite pastime, especially when criminal investigation is involved. And they think they’ve found the men who bombed the Boston Marathon
Comedians Siv Ngesi and Brendan Murray battle it out in the ring for charity.
Never have I drunk so much wine without hearing that singular thudding pop of a cork, a sound as comforting as a mother’s voice, or the gentle breathing of a lover as s/he sleeps against your chest. I did and it made me sad
Reports are coming in that a robbery attempt was made by armed men on a bank in the Cape Town City Bowl this morning. We have photos and feedback.
Sixty years after the first publication “Casino Royale”, we finally have an African setting for a James Bond novel. The latest novel written by William Boyd is titled “Solo”, and will be set primarily on African soil
The Daily Sun has published a video to their YouTube account showing a violent assault against an elderly woman by two retail security guards. The woman was accused of shoplifting by the security, and beaten with a range of weapons, including belts, broomsticks, and rubber mallets, despite begging for mercy and saying “Ke le patetse”, meaning […]
Rumours began circulating at the end of last week that former Springbok captain and current Saracens hooker, John Smit would return to South Africa to fulfill the role of Chief Executive Officer at the Sharks Rugby Union. Those rumours have been confirmed. Smit will replace current chief executive Brian van Zyl, who will mentor Smit […]
Anyone who visited the Jack Daniel’s 2oceansvibe tent at Taste of Cape Town will agree things were off the hook! Not least of which was the mental performance by Ard Matthews!
Chris “Mr Cake” Holmes, knew where his heart was and knew that his current job was not for him. Holmes also knew what path he wanted to take on his new journey. So he wrote his resignation letter on a cake.
We all love that feeling of getting into fluffy jammies and cuddling up, horizontally, into our feather down beds. But do astronauts have the same luxury? Think again!
This song has already been thoroughly taken to task by memesters – we’ve seen versions of it sung by goats, rabbits, the wine press lady… The list is endless. Now you can ad subway violinists to that.
Facebook Home’s most current video is slightly easier to understand than a few of their earlier efforts – the only problem is that that message of the ad has been roundly rejected by The People of The Internet.
The Bay Side area of Silicon Valley attracts crowds of successful entrepreneurs to settle down, owing to its close proximity to a concentrated cluster of hyper-successful tech companies. And boy, do sex workers like this neighbourhood
Art work by Kobus Myburgh, showing President Jacob Zuma and former president Nelson Mandela as white has been removed from an art exhibition scheduled to open at the Van Riebeek Hall in Nelspruit yesterday.
Sam Parnia is the head of the intensive care unit at Stony Brook University Hospital, New York. Sam can resurrect you from the dead. In fact, he’s done it a few times.
Atlantic Fog Time-lapse from Eric Nathan on Vimeo.
Photographer Eric Nathan captured the fog rolling in over Cape Town on Sunday evening, and the results are glorious. Check out the amazing time lapse video, after the jump
Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt claims that everybody will be online by 2020, which he stated on his Google+ account this Saturday.
We’ve all seen them being sold in trendy home stores, and coveted, hard. Perfect for getting back in to your cocktail habit, these swing chairs are novel, and comfortable. And the stand is genius. Check them out
For years, science has agreed that plastic waste is destructive for our environment , but not according to Somerset West inventor, William Graham. To Graham, the tons of plastic waste produced by our society on a weekly basis is an ever-growing stack of gold
In a titanic effort to become the single most hated South African on the internet, convicted criminal and occasionally bankrupt nightclub owner Kenny Kunene has confirmed that he sleeps with underage girls, and loves being “raped” by women.
There was a time when “somebody hold my baby” was just a line from a standup comedy set. Thanks to the convergence of smartphones, public transport, and the internet, it’s now also a line from a real-world YouTube video
Following South Africa’s disastrous military intervention in the Central African Republic, reports have emerged that South Africa and France are heading for a diplomatic showdown on commercial and political interests in Francophone Africa. This, and more on the M&G Newsroom podcast
Finally it’s here, the trailer for the second installment in the popular Hunger Games trilogy. The MTV Movie Awards was the stage for the premier of the official trailer for Hunger Games: Catching Fire, this last Sunday. Katniss Everdeen is back with her thousand yard stare, and it looks like she’s in just as tight a spot […]
Kmart have taken to YouTube to promote their new shipping service, and they have nailed it by encouraging customers to “ship my pants”. Say that fast. There isn’t really much more we can say about this, apart from the fact that the child is a real highlight.
The GoPro 3 Hero Edition is hot fire, and is widely regarded as the single best ultra-portable camera in the world. In the WORLD. Now’s your chance to get one, for less. So, go ahead and do that.
France got their own taste of an epic, Hollywood-style Prison Break this last Saturday, when one of their most notorious gangsters, Redoine Faid escaped from prison. Faid has claimed that his crimes are inspired by Scarface and Heat