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NASA Goes Open-Source
09 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA has launched an open-source portal to make it easier for agencies to evaluate and improve upon its projects. The initial setup works as a simple directory of open-sourced projects in development, which is hoped to expand into a platform for tracking, hosting and planning the various pieces of software created by the American space agency.
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New Social Etiquette 101: The Phone Stack
09 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Tired of peoples’ phones hogging the dinner table ambience? Here’s a nifty little social exercise fresh out of America that puts a high price on handling your handset at the dinner table. It’s called the phone stack, and here’s how it works.
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Breaking: Cape Town Police Arrest Heavily Armed Man In Woodstock
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Cape Town police arrested an as yet un-named man today holding a virtual armoury of weapons, and a literal pharmacy of illegal narcotics in Woodstock. What was this man on a mission packing? We’ve got the whole list!
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Full Gallery Of Titanic Items To Be Sold 100 Years After Sinking (PICS)
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Titanic has been lying at the bottom of the ocean for nearly a century. On 15 April this year, 5 000 items from the world’s most famous shipwreck will be auctioned off in one lot – on the 100th anniversary of the disaster that took place on April 15, 1912. See some of them after the jump.
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Russian Satellite Will Fall To Earth Next Week
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Phobos-Grunt, the 13-ton, US$ 170 million Russian space probe that was launched into orbit and promptly crippled by failed auxiliary engines, is due to crash back onto Earth soon. Russian space authorities have named January 15th as the likely re-entry date. In case you thought that your fears of high-speed orbital debris ended with 2011.
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Digital Music Sales Surpass Discs For The First Time Ever
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Your CD collection has officially become outdated, because 2011 was the year that digital music sales finally surpassed their plastic disc-based counterparts, and the trend doesn’t look to be over.
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Disabled Boy Writes Matric With Toes, Passes Brilliantly
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s a little inspiration for your Friday morning. A 19-year old boy with no arms has just found out he has got into the university of his choice, having written his matric exams with his feet. Letlhogonolo Mafela, from Matshepe Village, North West has done his school and his family proud.
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Pentagon Scientists Created A “Time Cloak” To Make Events Disappear
05 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Five days into 2012 and we’ve already got fancy new technology. A team from Cornell University have developed a light-distortion device that can mask events as if they hadn’t happened; they managed to use light distortion to hide an event for 40 picoseconds. Which, granted, is 40 trillionths of a second, but the research is groundbreaking in the extreme.
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Concerns Over 2011 Matric Results Despite 70% Pass Rate
05 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South Africa’s much awaited IEB Matric results are in, and while there is a noticeable increase in the overall pass rate, commentators have aired concerns over some of the trends emerging. Here’s the Sparks Notes version. Pay attention, there may be a test later.
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Murder Investigation Opened Following Discovery Of Dead Body On Queen’s Estate
04 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is rather spicy. When you’re in the spotlight a lot, like the Royal Family of England tends to be, it can be a little tricky to explain why the body of a murdered woman has been found on your estate. This is what has happened to the Her Royal Majesty herself, at her Royal Estate in Sandringham.
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Saudi Women May Now Sell Lingerie – A Small Step Forward?
04 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tomorrow will mark what many Saudi women will consider a small milestone in personal shopping. From this week, only female staff will be allowed to sell lingerie, relieving the embarrassment of buying underwear in the highly conservative Muslim nation. This is by order of the king, incidentally. The new law provides a rare opportunity for the employment of women, which was previously outlawed.
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Mitt Romney Wins Iowa Caucuses By Eight Votes
04 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In one of the closest candidate-selection ballots in US history, former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney won out over Rick Santorum at the Iowa caucuses, the nation’s first major electoral event of the year. Santorum and Romney switched between first and second frequently during the night, but a last-minute eight-vote tie margin put Romney ahead.
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Upcoming Apple Event To Revamp iBooks
03 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple is holding a product event later this month in New York – and since the Christmas buy-a-palooza is just past, it’s looking unlikely that they’re going to be announcing any new hardware just yet. Instead, Apple seems set to refurbish iBooks, their eBook retail platform, with a couple of new publishing options.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
03 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Wendi Is All Over Rupert Murdoch’s Twitter Vibe – As the News International tycoon opened his Twitter account on New Year’s Day by pouring scorn on the British for taking too much time off over Christmas – from the sun-kissed Caribbean island of St Barts – Mrs Murdoch was quick to deflect any criticism. Follow […]
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Monday Morning Spice
02 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The World Welcomes 2012 – An astounding one million revelers erupted in cheers amid a confetti-filled celebration in New York’s Times Square to welcome in the new year, part of star-studded celebrations and glittering fireworks displays around the world to usher in 2012. From New Zealand to New York, the world eagerly welcomed a new year […]
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Fire Breaks Out At LMFAO Concert [PICS]
30 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Partyrockers LMFAO are currently touring through Latin America, and had a show in Honduras last night. This show unfortunately had to be stopped after a fire broke out, right in the middle of their set. Click continue for the full gallery of the devastation.
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Happy New Year, Love President Zuma
30 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Presidency in Pretoria has released our own Dear Leader’s message to the nation on the (almost) eve of the new year. It appears we can give ourselves a collective pat on the back. Read the whole thing after the jump.
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Graeme Smith Is Definitely Not Resigning As Proteas Skipper
30 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite rumours of his resignation as SA’s test cricket captain, which spread like wildfire yesterday in social media channels following the Proteas’ resounding defeat to Sri Lanka, Graeme Smith is not resigning. While a comment on Twitter alluded to him possibly stepping down as skipper, he has confirmed that this “is not the case at all”.
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Stephen Hawking Is Looking For An Assistant
30 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant scientists of our lifetime, and author of “A Brief History of Time”. And he is currently shopping around for a new assistant. His website features a picture of his wheelchair, complete with wires and complex electronics. The caption reads “STOP PRESS: Could you maintain this?”
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of 2011
29 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s the 29th of December, which means we are all now sick of Top 10 lists. There are Top 10 lists of Top 10 list. Except this particular Top 10 list is actually pretty informative, collating the year’s illegal torrent data to tell us which films people wanted to see but weren’t willing to pay for. #1 is really awful.
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Explosion Hits Mugabe’s Ruling Party Office In Zimbabwe
29 Dec 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
HARARE — An explosion hit the provincial office of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF in the central city of Gweru, causing only material damage, state media reported on Thursday. “We are still investigating the cause of the explosion” which occurred late Tuesday, police inspector Patrick Chademana told The Herald newspaper. He said nobody was injured […]
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Japan Has Wi-Fi Vending Machines Now.
29 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Any article discussing some fun new tech in Japan is liable to be instantly out of date, because those guys have everything. Voice synthesizers, Olympic robots, eco-friendly Christmas lights – whatever. But this is new, and probably practical enough to port overseas: vending machines that sell Wi-Fi accessible within a 50m radius.
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US Music Sales Break Twelve Year Slump
29 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The 2000s haven’t been kind to the US music business, with year on year shrinkage in sales since Y2K leading to the longest slump this side of the Second World War. In 2011, three artists managed to turn the slide around, while many others floundered in mediocre sales. Care to guess who?
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Your MP3 Player May Be Deafening You: Study
28 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Peace and quiet can come at a premium, especially if you live and work in a busy urban environment. However, a new study shows that the biggest actual threat to our hearing is one we deliberately expose ourselves to every day.
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Taylor Lautner’s People Magazine ‘Coming Out’ Issue Goes Viral
28 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well this is a little embarrassing. While we all have our suspicions, Twilight star Taylor Lautner has vehemently denied any rumours that he might be gay. This didn’t stop someone from creating a false People Magazine cover, outing the actor. The cover has since gone viral, briefly trending on Twitter. See the full cover after the jump.
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How To Steal A Case Of Beer Like A Boss [VIDEO]
28 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Our latest addition to the 2oceansVibe Boss Hall of Fame is living proof that you shouldn’t ever pay for life’s necessities…such as beer. An effortless demeanor, a decent skirt and a pair of strong thighs will do the trick just fine.
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Hugh Hefner And Crystal Harris Involved In Custody Battle Over Puppy
27 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Life is difficult for those who live on a permanent diet of Viagra and velvet robes. Not only does Hugh Hefner have to juggle himself between a whole group of playmates, but now they want to take his puppies away from him as well.
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Social Networking Makes Up 20% Of Everything That Happens Online
23 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An annual report from comScore on what happens online has shown that 1 in every 5 minutes of time online this year was spent on social networking sites – as compared to the 6% of internet time that went to social networking in 2007. By all accounts that sort of growth is expected to continue, and speed up, in 2012.
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The R200 Home Computer Is About To Launch
23 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Raspberry Pi – the eagerly anticipated barebones mini home computer – will go into production shortly, it was announced today. The manufacturers’ hope is that the low cost device will inspire the next generation of technical whizz kids.
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Winners Of The National Geographic Photo Competition [PICS]
23 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
National Geographic has announced their 2011 global-wide photography contest. See all the winning images after the jump.
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