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Tech/Sci
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You’d Be Silly Not To Enter This Competition To Win Free Apple Goodies
20 Jun 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s largest independent Apple retailer is currently running a competition giving away cracking prizes.
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Schools Are At Capacity – But Education Doesn’t Need A School Building, Does It?
17 Jun 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The limitations of four walls that can only sit 30 or so children are one of the reasons parents and guardians need to apply to multiple schools.
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Bill Gates Is Cracking Jokes About Vaccine Microchips
17 Jun 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The idea that Gates seeks to profit and control humankind via microchips in COVID-19 vaccines just won’t go away.
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What’s Happening Inside Your Mind When You’re Having A Nightmare
15 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
There’s no sweeter relief than waking up shaking and sweating after a gruelling fit of late-night purgatory and realising that it was merely a nightmare.
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Chinese Scientists Reckon They Might Have Found A Sign Of Extraterrestrial Life
15 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
China’s massive ‘Sky Eye’ FAST telescope, the world’s largest alien-hunting radio telescope, seems to have picked up a strange signal which could suggest that there is indeed life beyond Earth.
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Drama At Google As AI Bot Apparently Exhibits Child-Like Thoughts And Feelings
13 Jun 2022 by Paula / No Comments
A Google engineer named Blake Lemoine is refusing to be silenced, in the wake of his discovery that a Google AI bot is beginning to demonstrate worrying signs of human-like sentience.
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Watch Planet Earth Change Right Before Your Eyes
13 Jun 2022 by Paula / No Comments
A new innovation from the Google Earth team, in collaboration with the World Resources Institute, means that now users can watch the face of the earth morph and alter in real-time.
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Too Many Sponsored Posts Have Users Fuming Over Instagram
09 Jun 2022 by Paula / No Comments
In the mire of professional influencers and targeted digital advertising that’s now prevalent, is the popularity of the photo-sharing app doomed for a decline?
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A Sex Robot With A Scottish Accent Is Giving People Pause [Video]
08 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The realistic-looking robotic companion had been programmed with what her creator describes as a “Glasgow Uni accent”.
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The New Times Square Darth Vader Billboard Is Pretty Insane [Video]
08 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
A brand new Darth Vader billboard is terrorising tourists in Times Square, in honour of the release of the final season of the Disney+ series ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’.
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You Don’t Understand The Size Of Roman Abramovich’s Jets That The US Are About To Seize
08 Jun 2022 by Paula / No Comments
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich is at risk of losing over R6 billion worth of private aircraft, and you will not believe the scale of the planes in question.
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Drone Captures What It Looks Like To Be Taken Out By A Russian Missile [Video]
08 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The footage took place in southwest Polohy in Ukraine, an area frighteningly close to where the Russian Armed Forces have taken control.
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Jozi Residents, Here’s What You Saw In The Sky On Sunday [Videos]
07 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
On Sunday night, the sky above Johannesburg shone bright with strange lights for a moment, leaving many residents wondering what was going on.
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Ridiculous New World Record Internet Speed
07 Jun 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Using standard hardware, Japanese researchers achieved speeds 100 000 times faster than 5G internet speeds.
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Would You Pass Ryanair’s Afrikaans Test?
06 Jun 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africans flying to and from the UK on Irish airline Ryanair were asked to complete a general knowledge test in Afrikaans before they could board.
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NASA’s Upcoming Mission Will Send A Venus Probe Through “Planetary Hell”
06 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Scientists at NASA are curious to see if the second planet from the Sun ever housed any life before, especially considering how similar it is to Earth.
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Beautiful People Earn More Money And Don’t Want To Share It
06 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
New research is saying that attractive people’s own beauty and self-biases play a role in political decision making, and may lead to some rather ugly results.
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Here’s To The Ones Who’ve Raised Us
03 Jun 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
June 1 was Global Day of Parents and we can all agree they deserve a day and then some.
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Strong Warning Issued To Avoid Buying From SA Online Tech Retailer
01 Jun 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s Consumer Goods and Services Ombud (CGSO) has warned consumers to beware when transacting with the retailer.
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Hope For Us All: World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire Is A Dropout
31 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Alexandr Wang was studying machine learning when met his company’s future co-founder, Lucy Guo, and his life really began.
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Footage Shows Jetpack Inventor’s Crash After Malfunction [Video]
30 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Nicknamed “the flying man” by French media, inventor Franky Zapata ended another trip on his homemade jetpack with a splash.
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Expected iPhone 14 Features Starting To Emerge
30 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Ahead of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 6, industry insiders have been making some predictions about what the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max will come packed with.
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The Rise Of Alternative Learning
27 May 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Education is moving out of the classroom. The need for home and alternate schooling continues to grow.
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Why Crypto Investors Are Watching Interest Rates And Inflation
27 May 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The financial news has been somewhat bleak of late and we keep hearing words like inflation, recession, bear market, and Crypto Winter.
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NASA’s Mars Lander Battled Martian Dust To Snap Its Final Selfie
26 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The stationary spacecraft captured its last selfie on April 24, showing just how enveloped its solar panels have become by the planet’s relentless dust.
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You Know You Can Pay Extra To Get Your Uber Eats Delivered First, Right?
26 May 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In peak periods, Uber Eats drivers are often taking multiple orders to different addresses, but the priority delivery option means it’s all about you.
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Cape Town Beaches Dominate Google Street View Data
25 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The data allows us to see which South African beaches are the most searched for, and seven of the top 10 are in Cape Town.
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There’s A Wordle Spinoff For Art Lovers Now
23 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Every day, ‘Artle’ gives players an opportunity to identify the creator of four works of art in four guesses.
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The Easiest Way To Insure Your Apple Products
19 May 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
No matter how much we do our best to ensure that nothing happens to our tech goodies, something will eventually go wrong.
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Success: The World’s First Autonomous Container Ship Voyage
18 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The world’s first commercial autonomous voyage has been completed with success along the coast of Japan.
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