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Tech/Sci
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Google Launches Incredible Nelson Mandela Digital Archive
28 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory has partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to launch what will arguably become the most extensive online archive of Nelson Mandela’s life. The free global access to photos, videos, letters and personal documents about his life and times will continue to expand as people across the world add their memorabilia to the archive.
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Llandudno Beach Is In Northern France. Wait, What?
27 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This gem popped up in our social media feed yesterday, courtesy of one humorous individual. It is a billboard that’s been displayed in London Underground stations, and it advertises cheap travel to France’s northern coast. But it’s clearly an image of Llandudno beach in Cape Town.
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Cape’s Grand Prix Bid Being Stalled By Government
27 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The City of Cape Town could host a Formula One Grand Prix as early as 2014, if Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula would just agree to a meeting with the Cape Town Grand Prix SA organising committee.
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Ex-Goldman Sachs Employee, Greg Smith, Shopping For Book Deal
26 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Greg Smith, the South African-born ex-Goldman Sachs executive who resigned this month, and went on to launch a scathing attack on Goldman’s culture in the New York Times, is seeking a deal to write a book about his experiences there.
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Cell C. Be the Witness. Justice Mukheli
26 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Justice always took mental pictures but it wasn’t until recently that he picked up the camera and started exploring the craft of photography. It was the co-existence of beauty and ugliness in his hometown Soweto that inspired him to tell stories in a single frame. To people who only see the ugliness of life, Justice’s […]
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Wounded Auction Alliance Slowly Staggers On
26 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Rael Levitt is apparently readying himself to expose widespread corruption across the auctioneering industry in an attempt to save himself, but there’s still little word on exactly where he is. All the while, other skeletons seem to be freely emerging from the cupboard too.
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Cape Schoolboy Draws Chess Match With Garry Kasparov
23 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An 11-year-old schoolboy from Constantia, Cape Town, has endured a three-hour chess match against the man widely known as the greatest chess player ever. The match ended in a draw, and was part of the Cape Town launch of the Kasparov Chess Foundation in Africa. But, we have little doubt Daniel Barrish wouldn’t be claiming this one at break-time today.
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Nokia Develops World’s First Vibrating Tattoo
23 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
So! Nokia filed a patent for the world’s first vibrating tattoo, to alert users about call, text message or email alerts. Because that’s something people would want. The idea being that Nokia’s haptic tattoo would transmit “a perceivable impulse” through the skin whenever it receives magnetic signals from a phone. The future is gross.
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Photos On Lost Phone Reveal Chinese Gangster’s Lifestyle [PICS]
23 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A series of violent photographs claiming to be leaked from a gangster’s mobile phone have become an online sensation. Attracting nearly 5million hits, the pics show a young (but portly) Chinese man showing off his love for stacks of cash, German sports cars, parading around topless and dishing out savage beatings. Full gallery inside.
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Samsung To Provide Free Satellite TV Services
23 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Samsung has partnered with SES satellite services to drive digitalisation in Africa. The free service will be available on selected Samsung LED TV’s, and will provide access to 60 free-to-air TV channels that do not require a separate decoder.
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SONY Launches First Video For New “Made Of Imagination” Campaign
22 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Electronics companies don’t have it as easy as they used to, especially since Apple came along. They have to make you really want their products – especially in the field of cellphones and computers. SONY has enlisted the help of Wes Anderson, to help them out with a new 60-second stop-motion ad. Click ‘continue’ to see the spot.
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Goldman Sachs Starts Scanning Emails For The Term “Muppet”
22 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After South African-born Greg Smith sent a scornful resignation op-ed to the New York Times last week, Goldman Sachs will now undertake a company-wide email review. They’ll be searching for terms like “muppet”, and other things that may help to reveal disgruntled employees.
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Tech Report – The Cure For The Shopping Mall Nightmare
22 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For some of us, shopping malls are the absolute worst. With queues and people breathing all over you, touching you, children, sticky ice-creams, screaming, and of course, the trauma of finding parking. In this episode Seth shows you how to avoid this nightmarish experience. *This insert was first published in December 2011 on ETV. […]
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Breakthrough: SA Scientists Generate Stem Cells From Adults
22 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
For the first time ever, South African scientists have generated non-embryonic stem cells, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced. Harvested from adult skin cells, theoretically, these stem cells can grow into any type of adult cell.
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Have You Seen The New Cape Argus?
20 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
On March 9 2012, the Cape Argus officially changed its format and added a morning edition. The broadsheet is now only available in a size at about half of what it used to be, and the layout has been given a visually stimulating modernisation. We caught up with executive editor, Gasant Abarder, to find out more.
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The Pirate Bay To Launch Airborne Servers
20 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Popular torrent hosting site, The Pirate Bay has released plans to host their server database in the clouds. Literally in the clouds, I mean; they want to fit flying micro-drones with super-small computers and connect them with long-range radio transmitters, maintaining a network of “Low-Orbit Server Stations.” Which would make police raids a little more tricky.
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Apple Anncounces First Shareholder Dividend In Almost 17 Years
19 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time in nearly 17 years, Apple Inc. announced a dividend payment roll out today. The company launched a $10-billion share buyback scheme, as well. It looks like they finally buckled under the pressure to do something for their shareholders! Read what Tim Cook has to say – after the jump.
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Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate
19 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Julian Assange has found a way to run for the Upper House of the Australian Senate, in spite of, you know, being detained under house arrest in Britain. Which makes sense, I guess. Along with Assange’s candidacy, WikiLeaks announced on Twitter that they’ll be running a nominee against the current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
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First Goldman Sachs, Now JPMorgan Chase; Second Honest Banker Shows Himself
16 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This really is quite something. One might even say a “trend” is occurring. Following the publication of a whistleblowing letter by an ex-Goldman Sachs employee in the New York Times, a second honest banker has emerged. He works at JPMorgan Chase, and wrote his letter to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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First Commercial Spaceship To Launch To Space Station April 30
16 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA officials have announced that the first launch of a commercially built space capsule to the International Space Station is scheduled for the end of April. California-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) are the dudes responsible for the capsule in question, the unmanned Dragon spacecraft.
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Be Happy. Rozanne Whyte [VIDEO]
16 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
It all started for Rozanne when she was given the gift of a sewing machine from her grandmother. After that she disappeared into her own little world and started making all her own clothes. Now, as a professional designer, that sewing machine is still her trusty old friend but she makes clothes for others too […]
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Bruce Springsteen Offers Advice To Young Musicians At SXSW Conference
16 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bruce Springsteen is a musical legend. There’s no denying it – he’s got the stats to prove it. But what is he doing at a technology conference? Well, in a time of change, when music is changing – what advice can the digital generation take from rock and roll?
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BREAKING: Auction Alliance On Brink Of Collapse As Staff Flee
15 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
A report this morning indicated that a “large contingent” of the Johannesburg Auction Alliance sales staff were set to resign. They were reported to be “in talks” with Aucor yesterday about them looking for new jobs. Much more seems to have happened today, though.
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South African Goldman Sachs Exec Exposes The Rot In His Firm
15 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Goldman Sachs lost $2,2 billion of its market value yesterday after Greg Smith – a South African-born Goldman “big shot” in Europe – chose to resign and write an opinion piece letter about Goldman’s corporate culture to the New York Times.
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Hello, Future – What A Driverless Intersection Will Look Like [VIDEO]
15 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This is awesome. There’s been a lot of talk about driverless cars recently, but have you given any thought to how traffic will actually function? Someone has come up with a representation of a driverless intersection – much more efficient, because you don’t need to stop. You have to see this video, it’s insane.
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Johannesburg Chooses Owls To Fight Rat Plague In Alexandra Township
15 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Before you begin to make fun of the headline used for this article, we must tell you that the vermin extractors will also be serving an educational purpose. Johannesburg’s general owl population has been in decline for years as a result of urbanisation, but new owl projects are helping to combat this.
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NASA Unveils Space Atlas [Amazing PICS]
15 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bad. Ass. NASA has released a new space atlas, detailing over 560 million stars, galaxies and asteroids, many never seen before. The 18 000 awesome images were taken by NASA’s infrared space telescope, the Wide-field Survey Explorer (WISE). Take a look at some of the incredible space-images after the space-jump.
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UPDATE: Vicious Police Brutality In Vaalwater, Limpopo
14 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 14 Comments
Yesterday, 2oceansVibe ran a story about the brutal handling of an individual by a Vaalwater policeman. Instead of facing a charge of attempted murder, the officer involved is facing a lesser charge of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. He also spent time as the acting station commander of Vaalwater Police Station, after the incident occurred.
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Vicious Police Brutality In Vaalwater, Limpopo [VIDEO]
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 14 Comments
A video clip of a uniformed police officer brutally attacking and detaining an individual has been brought to our attention. The footage, allegedly filmed in Vaalwater, Limpopo, clearly incriminates a Vaalwater police van, and a uniformed police officer who appears to still be on duty. N5FW.
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The Real U.S.S Enterprise To Be Decommissioned
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If there’s one name that carries a lot of weight in naval circles, it’s the “Big E” or U.S.S Enterprise: the US naval fleet’s oldest nuclear powered aircraft carrier, and also the world’s longest, and 11th-heaviest, maritime vessel. After 51 years of service, the Enterprise is to return to port from the Persian Gulf and be decommissioned next year, but not without some amazing stories to tell.
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