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Tech/Sci
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Volvo Introduces Pedestrian Airbag [VIDEO]
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well this is new, and sort of neat. For the new V40, Volvo is introducing the world’s first pedestrian airbag system, designed to reduce the severity of pedestrian injuries in a car-pedestrian collision. Alternatively it could double as a sweet new inflatable mattress on the hood of your car.
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Ad Agency Turns 13 Homeless Men Into Wi-Fi Hotspots
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Advertising agency BBH has come under fire for their turning 13 homeless men walking Wi-Fi hotspots at the recent SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The “Homeless Hotspots” sported shirts saying, “I’m a 4G hotspot,” with an access code for the network.
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Tech Report – South Africa’s Information Highway Is More Like A Country Lane
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you ever think back to a time before the internet? Before instant gratification and information at your fingertips, it was a time when you had to go to a library to find things out. It seems prehistoric compared to our lives now, where anything we want, information wise, is there for the taking. But […]
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George Bizos Declares Info Bill Unconstitutional
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nelson Mandela’s former defence lawyer, and veteran human rights lawyer, George Bizos, has written to Parliament stating that the protection of state information bill is unconstitutional on several counts.
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Is CNN About To Buy Mashable?
12 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A few hours ago, Reuters blogger, Felix Salmon, recorded an exclusive interview in which it was revealed that CNN will buy social media website, Mashable, for more than $200 million dollars. The announcement is due to be confirmed as early as tomorrow, according to Salmon.
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Your 2012 Cape Argus Road Closures
09 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s that time of the year again when thousands of lycra-clad cyclists descend on the Mother City for the Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour. Capetonians, your road closures begin tomorrow, so here is what you need to be aware of.
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YouTube And NBC Will Live-Stream The Entire Summer 2012 Olympics For Free
09 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time ever, you’ll be able to watch every single Olympic event live, for free, without having to pirate it through some dodgy online stream. In fact, it’s actually a clever marketing ploy on the behalf of NBC, but still, it’s better than nothing.
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Riaan Cruywagen: The Autobiography
08 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Riaan Cruywagen will release an autobiography at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival this year. It will be available in stores from April 2. The man who knows the news before the news happens, has enjoyed a prosperous 47 years in broadcasting, of which 37 were spent as an Afrikaans newsreader.
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Mandela’s Grandson Charged With Fraud
08 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Earlier this week, 2oceansVibe reported that possible charges of fraud were to be brought against Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Zondwa Mandela. We can now confirm that charges have been laid against him, as well as an Aurora Empowerment Systems lawyer, who also happens to be a director of Velvet Sky Aviation.
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UPDATED: Was Facebook Hacked?
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“Probably not,” is the answer. It seems as if things have returned to normal on the Facebook servers around parts of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The outage earlier affected facebook.com, as well as apps for mobile phones and tablets. Facebook has thus far put the incident down to “technical difficulties.”
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Invisible Children: Make Joseph Kony Famous [VIDEO]
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This might turn out to be the most inspiring documentary you will watch all year. A serious campaign is underway to bring down Joseph Kony, the infamous leader of the Ugandan guerrilla group: the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA is responsible for an unquantifiable number of atrocities across Uganda. Human trafficking, brutal rape, and child soldier deployment are commonplace. This is KONY 2102.
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Google Announces ‘Google Play,’ Cloud-Based Media Hub
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Another alternative to Apple’s iCloud popped up this week, with Google has announcing that it will be combining the Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore into a new cloud-based service called Google Play, allowing users to access all of their media across all of their Android devices.
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IBM’s Watson Is Heading To Wall Street
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sometime last year, IBM created a brand new supercomputer, called Watson. The idea was ho have him try and beat a human competitor at the popular game show, Jeopardy. He did this without retrieving any information off the internet, and based all knowledge on the information fed into the system. He won, too. Watson is now employed by Citigroup.
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BREAKING: Has Facebook Been Hacked?
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Has Facebook just been hacked? A short while ago, tweets began to start flowing eluding to the fact that Facebook was reportedly down in many regions across the world including Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. We searched a little, and Facebook is indeed inaccessible to many. What will they do?
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ICASA Hampers Broadband And Cellphone Development
06 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
In a shocking move from ICASA, the communications regulator in South Africa, a hold has been put on its applications to allocate frequencies to various local cell providers. This all sounds very complicated, but I’m going to attempt to spell it all out for you below, in words you’ll be able to understand.
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SABC Approves 24-Hour News Channel Launch Date
06 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The SABC has had plans to launch a new channel for a while. It has now announced that its new channel will again attempt an April 1 launch. And no, that’s no April Fool’s joke like last time. They’re serious this time. The channel will be a 24-hour news channel, and will be launched in conjunction with MultiChoice.
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DARPA’s New Military Robot Can Run Faster Than You [VIDEO]
06 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh, good, more things from the future to terrify me. Boston Dynamics, a Pentagon contractor, has broken the speed record for legged robots, with a new four-legged creation – the Cheetah, which can run at 29 kilometres an hour, far outpacing the 20 km/h record set by MIT in 1989.
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Most Used Password By Businesses Revealed
06 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
IT security firm Trustwave recently released its Global Security Report for 2012. In it they reveal the most used password by business users. Before you click through, see if you can guess what it is – you might not be too far off the mark.
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iPad 3 Specifications Spotted In The Wild
05 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s less than a week to go until the iPad 3 is unveiled, so everybody and their grandma is throwing out thoughts about what the new toy can do. Concrete stats are emerging though – Apple employees have been browsing the web with their personal iPad 3’s, turning up details about the new tablet on website server logs.
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Mercedes Pimps Out “Invisible” Ride With New Fuel Cell Technology [VIDEO]
05 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well this is all kinds of wow. Mercedes have developed a new hyrdogen fuel cell technology for their latest vehicle ranges which they claim has zero emissions, and is thus “invisible to the environment”. See what happens when they take that concept to the next level. Eat your heart out, 007!
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73% Of People Would Prefer An SMS Instead Of A Phone Call
05 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
I am completely flabbergasted at the amount of people who still think it is cool to call out of the blue. People who assume that you are available at that exact time. People who assume you want to take a chance in the hope that THAT particular call is not an annoying salesman or bank person. People […]
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Apple Doctor Will Fix Your iPhone Or iPod + Fetch / Deliver
05 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
I give credit when credit is due, and this you have to hear. You see just last weekend I was chilling with The Muse at the Mount Nelson pool (anyone can chill there, as long as you use the Labrisa Spa first – locals get a 25% discount) and we were enjoying some scones and […]
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Google’s Unified Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today [VIDEO]
02 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google’s new privacy policy – the one allowing the company to combine data from all of its sites into a single profile – officially takes effect today. The new policy collapses 70 separate policy documents from various Google services into a single unit – which also happens to make it easier for Google to know things about you.
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Update On Stellenbosch’s Free Wi-Fi: It’s Real And It’s Awesome
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Last week it was announced that Stellenbosch would become the first town in South Africa (and quite possibly Africa) that would have an entire town under free Wi-Fi. Well lo and behold, it’s here. Already. And it’s pretty damn awesome.
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Dutch Launch Mobile Euthanasia Unit
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That’s right, dying just got even easier, if you live in the Netherlands. The Levenseindekliniek, or Life-end clinic, has launched the country’s first mobile euthanasia unit that will come to you if you have been given approval to die.
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Nokia Releases 41-Megapixel Camera Phone Images Shot In The Western Cape [GALLERY]
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Instagram addicts, it’s time to have a good look at your new competition: the Nokia Lumia 808. On Monday, we introduced you to one of the most talked about gadgets to come out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Without further ado, here’s a glimpse of what the Nokia Lumia 808 PureView, and its 41-megapixel camera, is capable of.
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Apple’s iOS Lets Developers Access Your Photos & Videos
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple’s iOS has been under fire for allowing third-party apps to access users’ location data and contacts without permission – and now it looks like photos and videos have been compromised too. The New York Times used a test app to prove that the security software had a giant loophole in its privacy settings.
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Apple’s Invite To 7 March Event – Reveals Retina Display For iPad 3
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Okay kids. It’s here. Official, straight from the horse’s mouth. I normally adopt the policy that any news regarding an Apple product should come from Apple themselves, and it doesn’t come clearer than this – the invitation to the “special event” next week. Apple is also known for giving away clues in their invitations – hit continue to see what we think this one is hinting at.
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Twitter Unlocks The Tweet Archives
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time ever, researchers will now be able to access extensive historical Twitter data. Previously, only the preceding 30 days of tweets were available for companies to search. The new move means that trend analysts and companies looking for specific insight will now be able to access tweets dating back two years.
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What Does This Traffic Light Signal Mean?
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Capetonians: on Janssens Road, in Tableview, near the bike shop, this traffic light is sporting a new “green” signal. Apparently, this isn’t the first traffic light that’s been sporting this kind of “green” signal either.
[Thanks, Jake R]
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