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Tech/Sci
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Check Out Google’s Amazing New London Headquarters [GALLERY]
06 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has recently moved into their third new office building in London. This one was designed by the Penson Group – the same guys that were behind the futuristic London Engineering offices. Check it out inside!
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The Olympics, Shot Exclusively With An iPhone 4S [PICS]
03 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dan Chung is a photojournalist for the Guardian on assignment at the Olympics. Instead of lugging around a bag full of heavy, expensive equipment like everyone else, he’s using just his iPhone 4S and a few aftermarket attachments. The results have been amazing.
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New Study Reveals The Obvious – Saffas Hate Their Cellular Providers
01 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A new study commissioned by inMobi, an industry research group, has revealed that a massive 70% of South Africans are unhappy with their cellphone providers. It’s not all about the prices either.
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BREAKING: Cell C Slashes Data Rates To Only 15c/MB
01 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There simply is no stopping Cell C CEO, Alan Knott-Craig. First he dropped prepaid prices to 99c. Then he slashed contract prices by 50%. And this morning he announced that all standard data packages on Cell C’s network will be lowered to 15c/MB – applicable to both in bundle and out of bundle options!
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Apple’s New Ads Targeting Their Fanboys Draw Negative Backlash [VIDEO]
31 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
While we’ve pretty much come to expect Apple to offend at least one group of people – normally BlackBerry or Windows users – in their adverts, poking fun at the people actually BUYING your products is perhaps going a bit too far. Their latest three commercials, flighted during the Olympic coverage on Friday in America, feature an Apple Store employee (a ‘genius’) who has to help idiotic Mac users make videos and other simple tasks. Can you guess where this is going?
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William Shatner Narrates Rad NASA Video Days Before Mars Landing [VIDEO]
31 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Mini-Cooper sized Curiosity Rover is on target to land on the surface of Mars at 07h31 am on August 6th. This presents the most advanced mission to Mars in the history of space exploration. William Shatner and Will Wheaton have contributed their voices to videos explaining the mission.
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Prototypes Of iPads And iPhones Come Out In Court [GALLERY]
27 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The iPhone design, like quite a few Apple products, is iconic, yet we hardly ever get a chance to see the development process that leads up to the product ending up on the market. Recent court documents reveal early design stages of both products.
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Google Just Announced How It Will Become A Digital TV Provider
27 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Google Fiber is Google’s latest stab at getting into the digital television market. With an insanely fast 1Gbps fiber network, it will likely see other companies and other ISP’s sit up straight and have a good think about upping both service quality, and pricing.
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Proof That The Cold War Is Over: Russia Is Building A Steve Jobs Monument
25 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A monument dedicated to Steve Jobs is in the works to go up in the main square of St. Petersburg, Russia. The Foundation of IT Progress – the organization behind the initiative – has launched a competition to find the best concept for the memorial. Do you think you know what a proper Steve Jobs memorial should look like?
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A Computer Worm May Be Causing Iranian Nuclear Facilities to Blast AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ At Night
24 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s the dead of the night, you’re the last person in the high-tech computer lab frantically working on that bit of code that will bring about world peace, resurrect unicorns and cure all terminal illnesses with single click when suddenly every computer around you blasts the same tune, AAAAhaaaAAAAhaaaAA…Thunder! No, this is not the opening of an epic short story, it’s just another night at Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
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Sony Launches iPod Touch Clone, Calls It “Walkman”
24 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sony hasn’t had the best of times over the last year. The company has been plagued by hacking and monetary woes that ran into the billions. So, it’s hardly surprising the marketing budget has been small for the new Walkman, which is an iPod, dressed like a futuristic hipster.
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From Frankenstein With Love: Harvard Scientists Build Jellyfish From Scratch
23 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is just plain unbelievable. A group of researchers at Harvard, in a study towards building the first artificial human heart, have created their own creature. Similar to a jellyfish, they’ve created a Medusoid – a hybrid “pseudo-organism” made from the cells of a rat’s heart and a special polymer film.
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YouTube Introduces Face-Blurring Censorship Technology [VIDEO]
20 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
YouTube has just introduced face-blurring technology that will enable users to hide their identities in video footage they post online.
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Google Launches SMS Version Of Gmail In Africa
20 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Google has launched a text message-based version of its email service targeted at users in Africa. So far, the service has been made available in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya.
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Leaked Images Show iPad Was Prototyped Eight Years Ago [PICS]
19 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Fanboys always claim that Apple is basically giving us technology from the future. And if these leaked images are anything to go by, they might not be too far off. The photos show that while the iPad was only officially released in 2010, the tablet was already knocking around Apple HQ as long ago as 2002!
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This 15-Year Old Is Revolutionising The Way We Test For Cancer [VIDEO]
19 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
For most 15-year olds, the last thing they want to do after school is head to a lab and work on their biology. Jack Andraka however, is not most 15-year olds and after school he heads over to Johns Hopkins University where he’s working on a test for cancer that is leaps and bounds ahead of what’s ahead now.
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How Steve Wozniak Rolls When He Travels
18 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple. He’s also considered one of the reasons you might be using a personal computer right now. Steve took a photo of the contents of his backpack; click through to see how he rolls.
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In Mourning: Dolphin Carries Dead Baby For Days [VIDEO]
18 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A mourning ritual that is rarely seen, and even more rarely captured on camera, will raise further questions about whether dolphins understand the concept of death.
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Microsoft Unveils Touch-Ready Version Of Office [VIDEO]
17 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are going to be available with touch-screen controls. Taps, swipes, and pinch-and-zoom can be used within documents, files and presentations.
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The Great DMMA Blogger Debate – Money vs. Freebies?
16 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
The DMMA will be hosting a Blogger Debate on Tuesday 17 July from 15h00-17h00. The closed event, taking place at the Quirk offices in Cape Town, will aim to define the rules of engagement between bloggers, PR professionals and Ad Agency MDs. So says the DMMA: A recent debate has arisen amongst bloggers, advertising agencies and […]
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Over 50 Million Facebook Profiles Are Fake – BBC Investigates Pitfalls Of ‘Likes’
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The BBC has conducted an investigation into marketers’ obsession with ‘Likes’ and how this is impacted by fake user accounts and advertising on Facebook. An interesting read for all marketers.
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WikiLeaks Wins Legal Battle Against Visa, MasterCard
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
WikiLeaks just won an important legal battle which will force Iceland’s Visa and MasterCard partner to resume processing donations to the organisation. This comes after transactions headed for the secret-sharing site were blocked in 2010.
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RIM’s Terrible Past Quarter Was Terrible
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion, has had a terrible past quarter. The smartphone manufacturer is now literally hemorrhaging money and sales figures.
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Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech [VIDEO]
10 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A group of Ukrainian students are deservedly receiving a large amount of attention for a very impressive student project that has seen them qualify as one of the six finalists at this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup. They’ve invented a glove that can translate the movements made by sign language into speech.
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The Best View Of Mars Yet
09 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
After months and months of image collection, NASA has released what is the best image of Mars yet. If you can’t get there this week, this is the next best thing. Described by Nasa as the ‘Greeley Panorama’ from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, the first image documents the fifth Martian Winter of the mission.
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New Technology Helps Get Your Driver’s License Before The Law Changes
09 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Cape Town, South Africa. In proposed amendments to the National Road Traffic Act published in the Government Gazette on 8 June 2012: getting your drivers license, which already is a stressful and time consuming process, will take up to 12 months longer. New technology developed by iDRIVE.co.za now simplifies the process, enabling you to pass […]
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Higgs Boson ‘God Particle’ Explained – Quick Simple Video
08 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
This ‘God Particle’ vibe doesn’t seem to be going away. That’s why we scoured the net to find the shortest, clearest, simplest educational video to bring you up to speed, so you can wow your friends. Check it out.
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Japanese Parliamentary Panel: “Fukushima A Man Made Disaster”
05 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report that the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was “a profoundly man-made disaster”, and that the disaster “could and should have been foreseen and prevented”. The report also blamed cultural conventions and a reluctance to question authority.
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Incredible Images Of Massive Chinese-Built Ghost Town In Angola [GALLERY]
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If you weren’t aware of just how prolific Chinese investment is in Africa, wait until you see these startling images of what’s going on in Angola.
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A Quarter Of Your Friends Are Deliberately Posting Ugly Photos Of You On Facebook
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There is nothing worse than being tagged in a Facebook photo that you don’t want to be tagged in. You know, that time at the bar, after tequila number 7, hanging off your mate Jeff? Turns out it wasn’t just a mass upload.
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