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India To Declare Tea Its National Drink
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This weekend, Indian authorities announced that they planned to establish Assam tea as the national drink, celebrating the life and work of the man who introduced tea farming to Assam state, and also died trying to boot the British out. More of this hot cup of history, after the jump!
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Apple And Google Face Salary-Fixing Lawsuit
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel – among other companies – have been accused of restricting salary increases and restricting career development by agreeing not to poach each other’s staff; California District Judge Lucy Koh has found that there’s enough evidence to support trial for antitrust injury. Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm are also involved.
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Asteroid Mining Could Save The World’s Economy
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Time-tested wisdom says the sky’s the limit. However, a group of billionaires are looking to change that as they launch the first ever venture to mine asteroids, in space. For real. Click through for the details.
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Photos Surface Of Local “Shark Whisperer” Tickling Great White [PICS]
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday bodyboarder David Lilienfeld suffered fatal injuries after being attacked by a shark near Cape Town. On the same day, several international websites also happened to run a feature on Andre Hartman, South Africa’s “Shark Whisperer”. Pictures of Hartman placing his hand on the snout of a great white shark and “putting it in a trance” were the main focus. See them inside.
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Glacier Boarding, Because Snowboarding Is Too Mainstream [AMAZING PICS]
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Much like Jeb Corliss took BASE jumping to new heights, a group of adrenaline-thirsty snowboarders have taken their obsession to the next level. Who would’ve guessed that ditching snowy slopes for icy glaciers would make for such amazing pictures.
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Giant Dog Hot-Air Balloon Floating Over Cape Town [PICS]
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oscar, one of the world’s most famous adopted dogs, and his owner, Joanne Lefson is currently in in Cape Town. They are championing the cause of dog adoption – with a giant dog hot-air balloon floating over the Mother City this morning. See pics inside.
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Hacker Posts Details Of 3 Million Iranian Bank Accounts
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And you people wonder why they tried to switch the internet off. Khosrow Zarefarid, an Iranian software manager, warned Iran’s banks’ CEOs of a security flaw in the banking system. When nobody responded, Khosrow hacked 3 million accounts across 22 banks, then dropped these details — including card numbers and PINs — on his blog.
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Korea Has Robo-Guards Roaming Their Prisons [VIDEO]
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A group of scientists in South Korea has developed the world’s first completely autonomous prison guard. Far from being a glorified Roomba, the robo-guard was “designed to study human behavior, the robot is able to detect abnormal prisoner activity and report back to its controllers.” Click through for the video.
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Cape Town Shark Victim, David Lilienfeld, Appears In Recent Bodyboarding Video [VIDEO]
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
South Africans have reacted with shock and disbelief over the tragic passing of bodyboarder David Lilienfeld earlier today. He suffered fatal injuries at popular surfing spot, Koeël Bay, near Gordons Bay. A 2oceansViber alerted us to a recent video, featuring David and some of his friends. Watch it inside.
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Shark Documentary Filming Permits Cancelled Following Tragic Death Of Bodyboarder
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 12 Comments
Only a few hours have passed since Camps Bay bodyboarder, David Lilienfeld was fatally attacked by a Great White shark in Koeelbaai, near Cape Town. Less than two days ago, 2oceansvibe Reported the controversy around the awarding of filming permits to documentary film makers, who were chumming the water off the Cape Coast in a bid to attract Great Whites for tagging and filming purposes. At the time, Alan Boyd of the Department of Environmental Affairs defended the permits. Moments ago, in the wake of the tragedy, Boyd cancelled them.
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Facebook Targets May 17th For IPO Launch
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Signs suggest that Facebook is looking to have its initial public offering launch on on May 17th, assuming that the Securities & Exchange commission rubber-stamps all of the social network’s paperwork – including documents concerning Facebook’s recent billion-dollar acquisition of Instagram. Facebook is set to be initially valued at around $100 billion.
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Space Shuttle Discovery’s Final, Majestic Flight [VIDEO]
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Earlier this week, space shuttle Discovery took its final flight, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to Dulles International Airport, on the back of a 747. That’s a space shuttle piggybacking on a jumbo jet, and it was awesome. Click through for the video.
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Oscar Pistorius Makes TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People In The World List
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oscar Pistorius has been named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2012. He is the only South African on the list. See who he shares it with, and what the magazine had to say about him, after the jump.
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Arrested Development Will Premiere Its Entire Fourth Season At Once
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mitch Hurwitz, Arrested Development creator, has revealed that the long-mourned show will be premiering it’s 10-episode fourth season in one huge lump on Netflix’s Watch Instantly feature in 2013. You’ve got a year to come up with a plausible excuse to spend a day off from work to watch the entire season.
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Spain’s King Juan Carlos Apologises For African Hunting Trip
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 9 Comments
Spain’s King Juan Carlos finally issued an apology this morning for the hunting trip he took to Africa recently where he shot live game on a private reserve in Botswana, including elephants. The scandal might never have come to light if he hadn’t had an accident during the trip and had to be taken back to Spain for emergency hip surgery.
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Dream Job: Google Needs A Full-Time Doodler!
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Are you a really good illustrator? Does your mind overflow with creativity? Not afraid to have your work judged by literally millions of people? Your dream job is waiting at Google, click through for details.
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Brilliant Solar Flares Exploded From The Sun Yesterday [VIDEO]
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday NASA managed to capture the clearest-yet footage of a solar flare in process after magnetic fields on the Sun’s northeastern curve exploded in huge streams of plasma and sun stuff. The footage only accounts for about five seconds of explosion, but it’s very, very cool, both in and out of time-lapse.
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What Classic Show Is Single-Handedly Saving SABC 3’s Ratings Death Spiral?
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s hard to find a success story in the spiralling shit storm that is practically everything to do with the SABC these days, but SABC3 have bucked the trend a little, reaching into TV history for a programme that is turning their ratings nosedive around – and you’ll never guess who it is!
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Physicist Uses Mathematics To Get Out Of Traffic Fine, Publishes Findings
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
UC San Diego physicist, Dmitri Krioukov got ticketed recently for running a stop sign – which isn’t unusual. What is unusual is the fact that, rather than pay the $400 fine and move on, Krioukov wrote a mathematical paper proving that the cop who ticketed him had a “perception of reality that did not properly reflect reality.”
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BREAKING: Missing SA Yacht Returns Safely From Sea, Skipper Writes In To 2ov
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday we told you about SA yacht, The Dandelion, which had been missing at sea for days since her departure from northern Mozambique. Local and foreign authorities feared the vessel and its seven multi-national passengers had been captured by pirates in the Indian Ocean. 2oceansvibe has just received word – from the South African skipper, John Sergel himself – that the Dandelion has returned safely, and why she was held up. Click through to read.
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“If You Don’t Know About Digital, And You Work In Marketing, You’re Pretty Screwed” – Quirk Education Talks To 2oceansvibe Radio
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Last Friday, we heard from Lyndi Lawson-Smith from Quirk Education on 2oceansvibe Radio’s Premier Show. Lyndi is the Head of Education at this fine digital teaching establishment. In this entertaining 15 minute chat, Lyndi explains Quirk Education’s accreditation, the length and format of the average course, and why staying abreast of the insights compiled by […]
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Julian Assange Talk Show Debuts From Secret London Location, Interviews Infamous Hezbollah Leader [VIDEO]
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s controversial new talk show is set to drop today at 13h30 South African time on a Russian digital news channel. Nothing this man does is not bent on overthrowing the way we look at our society and the world around us, so the first episode of The World Tomorrow should be a hefty serving of global illuminati conspiracy cray-cray realness. Check out Episode One, after the jump!
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Disabled Soldiers To Tackle Mount Everest With Prosthetic Ice-Axes
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
25-year-old South African serviceman, Private Jaco van Gass, lost his left arm to a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan three years ago. Now he’s testing a prosthetic ice-axe – an invention of his own design – in preparation for an attempt at Mount Everest in May, alongside five other injured servicemen.
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Google Drive Launching Next Week With 5GB Free Space
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google’s long-anticipated cloud storage service, Google Drive, is set to launch some time next week – in yet another attempt to move in on a service that other companies have been occupying for years. What’s interesting here is that Google is planning on starting everyone with 5GB of free storage, easily trumping Dropbox’s 2GB base quota.
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Pacific Quake Update: Papua New Guinea Suffers Magnitude 7 Quake, No Tsunami Warning Issued
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Seismic instability continues on the Pacific Rim this week with a magnitude 7 earthquake recorded off the coast of Papua New Guinea early this morning (just after 05h00 Australian Eastern Standard Time). The tremor struck at a depth of 202km and was centred 137km north of Lae, Papua New Guinea’s second-largest city.
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Tuesday Radvertising: Blackriver FC Does It Again For Nando’s
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It’s been a few months since Nando’s has graced us with one of their viral hits, but the long wait is over. Hot off of the video presses, their latest offering is a cunning spoof of an all too familiar ad. Click through for the video.
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BREAKING: New iPad Available In SA End Of April
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
FNB have announced they will start offering the new iPad to their customers at the end of this month, the first South African company to make the new iPad available domestically. More details on the South African launch after the jump!
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Stay Tuned: SA’s “Shambolic” Digital Switch Over Pushed Back Again
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South Africa’s transition to full digital terrestrial broadcasting is one of those processes that one measures in aeons, like the lifespan of stars or the inexorable evolution of monkey-fish-frogs into homo sapiens. The Ministry of Communications released the latest twist in this lengthy tale this morning, so get your R700 Set Top Box fee ready while we explore Dina’s latest digital daydream, after the jump!
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Google Co-Founder Says Facebook & Apple Threaten Internet Freedom
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder everybody keeps forgetting about except when he talks about stuff like this, has pointed to a handful of “threats to internet freedom” – Facebook, Apple, the entertainment industry, and governments that censor their citizens. By which I guess he means threats to Google.
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Documentary: Watch The Power Of Music Bring This Elderly Gentleman Back To Life [VIDEO]
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Henry Dryer, age 92, is one of seven patients profiled in a new American documentary called Alive Inside, which looks at the power of music to help people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Watch how he reacts when he is given music from his youth to listen to.
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