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Tech/Sci
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Silk Road Competitors Nailed By Massive Theft
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems online black markets are going through a precarious time. Sheep, one of the most popular online drug-selling sites, has shut down after an alleged theft of thousands of Bitcoins from the site. Another site, Black Market Reloaded, has temporarily gone offline.
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Can’t Explain Bitcoins To Your Mates? Here’s A Helpful [VIDEO]
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ever since their introduction to the WWW, we’ve been posting a lot of stories about Bitcoin. But what is Bitcoin, and how does it work? New York-based director and designer Duncan Elms has directed and animated an amazing short motion infographic explaining Bitcoin in detail.
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Inside Tencent – The Chinese Company That Makes Naspers The Most Money
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chinese Company Tencent is bigger than YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter combined, with a market capitalization of $57 billion. It is also the company that makes billions of rands each year for Naspers and Koos Bekker.
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They’re Building A Floating City For Wealthy People – Check It Out
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
It’s the rich man’s ultimate fantasy – to be far removed from all the poor people back on dry land, while you cruise into the sunset on your fully equipped, luxury ship.
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The Ultimate Selfie App ‘Frontback’ Is Exploding
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems like those who have opposed the ‘selfie’ in all its forms will have to put their prejudices aside. It’s a thing now. A big thing.
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Jeff Bezos Wants To Use Drones To Deliver Amazon Online Purchases To Homes [VIDEO]
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos appeared on an episode of ’60 Minutes’, where he revealed that the world’s largest online store has been working on experimental drone-based delivery systems.
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This Is How Technology Is Changing The Face Of Blue-Collar Industries
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The world used to be hard. Our days used were filled with unpleasant tasks that we just couldn’t escape or make easier. Notice how we say used to – because it’s no longer true. Technology is not just a thing that makes you MacBook work – it’s changing the way we live our everyday lives.
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Beer-Tapping Physics: Why A Hit To A Bottle Makes A Foam Volcano
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The beer-tapping phenomenon was a long-standing puzzle in beer science (isn’t that something you wish you’d studied…) until physicist Javier Rodriguez of Madrid University and his team decided to undertake the challenge of figuring it out. We get it Spain. Your problems are cooler than ours.
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You Gotta See This NASA Video Of A Comet Cruising Past Earth [VIDEO]
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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There’s A Hard Drive In A Dump Filled With R60 Million Worth Of Bitcoins
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Finding Bitcoins in a rubbish heap is a lot harder than finding a needle in a haystack. James Howell found this out the hard way when he accidentally threw out his Dell hardrive containing 7 500 Bitcoins, worth R60 million.
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Wow – People Are Getting Thrown Out Of Restaurants For Wearing Google Glass
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
While the sight of someone wearing Google Glass is still strange enough to get you noticed, American Nick Starr didn’t realise it would get him kicked out of a restaurant.
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Tech Report: Uber Is The Renaissance For Taxi Cabs
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That’s right, kids. Not “revolution”. It’s “the Renaissance”, and Uber gets to claim that title because it was the first service to take pretty much every problem associated with catching a cab, and solve it elegantly with software. Check out our insert, below.
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Mysterious Online Organisation Has Geeks Transfixed
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
For the past two years, a secretive online organisation has piqued the interest of the world’s finest code-breakers in a series of seemingly unsolvable puzzles. But why? And who is behind the puzzle? Welcome, friends, to the dark and twisted world of Cicada 3301.
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Report Reveals Surprising Truth About SA Mobile Prices
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While popular rhetoric insists that low-end mobile subscribers in SA are getting a raw deal, that belief has been debunked by a “secret” report.
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Lonely? Here’s A Company That Will Create A Fake Girlfriend For You
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a dark corner of the internet we found a website that will shine a light into the lives of single men who think real women are a drag. Or, you know, hard to talk to. The ‘Invisible Girlfriend’ website will help you project the illusion of having a girlfriend. The process is as simple as selecting your fake mate from a library, and personalising her according to your specific needs and circumstances.
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Hallelujah – Voice Calls Are Dying In South Africa
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Don’t you just hate it when people use their cellphones to make calls? You’re not alone. A new study by Mobility 24 shows that voice calls are in decline, especially amongst the youngsters.
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Point This Gadget At Food And It Tells You What’s Inside
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
With so many potential toxins in our food, how are we supposed to know if what we are eating is safe for us? It’s a major problem, especially for people who suffer from food allergies. However, a revolutionary new piece of tech might solve this troublesome dilemma.
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The 10 Most Distracting Smartphone Apps When Driving [INFOGRAPHIC]
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For many of us, Smartphones have become an extra limb. It is an extended part of who we are, so it only makes sense to use it at all times. Or does it? Sure, sitting in traffic is boring, but that’s not an excuse to reach for your phone – no matter how tempting that blinking light is.
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Mashable’s Top 15 Apps For Entrepreneurs
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Once we’ve filled our phones with apps, we tend to not bother searching for new, innovative ones. Which is why Mashable asked 15 successful young entrepreneurs about their most useful, yet underrated apps.
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Richard Hardiman makes it to the Global Final of Entrepreneur X Factor 2013
26 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Making Capetonians proud: Cape Town-based businessman and media personality, Richard Hardiman, has made it into the global final of Entrepreneur X Factor 2013! Hardiman has had his entrepreneurial fingers in a number of successful pies like digital platforms, online radio (right here at 2oceansvibe nogals) as well as manufacturing. But it’s his latest venture that pits him against 20 businessmen from 15 countries.
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RED Mac Pro Sells For A Staggering R9.8 Million
25 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A metallic-red Mac Pro has just sold for almost ten million bucks in a recent auction, making it the most expensive computer ever sold.
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Monster 4-Ton 30 Foot Dinosaur Discovered
25 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Tyrannosaurus Rex has long held a place in our imagination as the king of the prehistoric jungle, but a new fossil finding in Utah may challenge this long-held belief.
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Google Chrome Experiment Let’s You Tour Middle Earth [VIDEO]
22 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In what is no doubt some sort of elaborate marketing ploy for the new Hobbit movie, Google is allowing us to fly through Middle Earth using Google Earth technology.
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How The US Army And Hollywood Propelled Vespa To What It Is Today
22 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In its early days, the Vespa was a cheap and efficient way of zipping around bombed-out Rome. Now, it stands atop a multi-billion dollar scooter industry, chosen by the world’s elite because of it’s style and sex appeal. But how did all that happen?
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Jay Z’s “Uber For Jets” Has Crashed On Take Off
22 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In principle, Blackjet sounds pretty cool. You pay a membership fee and the app allows you to book a seat on a private jet. Add celebrity investors like Jay Z, Will Smith, and Ashton Kutcher to the mix and the whole idea seems pretty solid. Apparently not.
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Cape Town Desperately Needs This Parking App [VIDEO]
21 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
We can all agree that Cape Town is the best place to live. Except for one big problem: parking. Whether you’re in Woodstock, Green Point, the CBD or on the other side of the Boerewors Curtain, parking never comes easy in our beautiful city. That’s why we need the Streetline app, Parker.
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Ferrari Have Made A 458 Italia ‘Niki Lauda Edition’ [PICS]
21 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Those of you who are at work or have children around, please be wary as this post contains some very dirty and pornographic material. It’s Ferrari’s 458 Italia ‘Niki Lauda Edition”.
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Tech Report: Survive The Christmas Road Trip With These Apps [VIDEO]
21 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Christmas is bearing down upon you. Heck, it’s bearing down on all of us. Specifically, the prospect of enduring the annual Christmas road trip is particularly daunting. Lucky for us, these apps will make the prospect of boiled eggs and toasted sarmies in tin foil slightly less awful.
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Here’s A Service That Only Rents Rooms To Hot People
20 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sorry ugly people, you’re not invited to this online party. LoveRoom is an online dating site that lets singles rent rooms from other singles. But only if they’re deemed “attractive enough” by the online community.
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Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins – Welcome To The Assassination Market
19 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s yet another reason not to become a politician. While some people use Bitcoins to buy things like socks and sushi online, Kawabatake Sanjuro invented a website called the Assissination Market, where you place a bid to have a government official killed in exchanged for Bitcoins.
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