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New Gorillaz Music Video (Featuring Andre 3000) Goes Viral [VIDEO]
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The music video for “DoYaThing” — the new collaboration between the Gorillaz, Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy – dropped yesterday, as part of Converse’s ongoing “3 Artists, 1 Song” campaign. The promo track was released along with the limited edition Chuck Taylor All Star Gorillaz Collection, which is on sale now.
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Eric Schmidt: UN Treaty A “Disaster” For The Internet
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The internet’s under attack again! This time by a United Nations treaty aimed at online regulation. Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, warned strongly against the suggested measures: “Do not give that up easily. You will regret it. You will hate it, because all that freedom, all that flexibility, you’ll find it shipped away.”
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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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25 Arrested In Global “Anonymous” Crackdown
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
25 people have been arrested for alleged ties to hacktivist movement Anonymous in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain in the joint ‘Operation Unmask,’ which I’m sure has nothing to do with the INTERPOL website being taken down yesterday and everything to do with attacks against websites in Columbia and Chile dating from the middle of 2011.
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Iraq Releases Official War Death Toll, But Figures Differ
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Iraqi government has released official figures for the number of deaths during the period between 2004 and 2011, but there are disputes as to the accuracy of their claims.
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Four SANParks Officials Arrested In Connection With Rhino Poaching
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It’s difficult to act surprised at the announcement from SANParks this morning, stating that four Kruger National Park wildlife officials were arrested yesterday in connection with rhino poaching activities. There are such large amounts of money involved with the rhino poaching syndicates, and just too many closely related coincidences, for there not to have been someone involved on the inside.
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TED Talks: Check Out Youtube’s Kevin Allocca On Why Online Videos Go Viral [VIDEO]
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You can do a lot worse on the internet these days than watching the odd TED talk online. Here’s a particularly worthy one, in my opinion, as Kevin Alloca from Youtube discusses the dynamics of how and why videos go viral.
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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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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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Could Wikileaks’ Bradley Manning Win The Nobel Peace Prize?
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier who leaked thousands of classified military documents, images and videos to Wikileaks has allegedly been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Is he the most controversial candidate, and who else made the cut?
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Occupy London Protestors Evicted From St Paul’s Square [VIDEO]
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hoof. The legal battle waged by the the Occupy London camp to keep their place at St Paul’s Cathedral was lost last night – and within about five minutes of the injunction being ordered, the camp was evacuated by bailiffs and officers from the City of London Police.
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Alex Rawlins Is Britain’s Most Multilingual Student [VIDEO]
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
Alex Rawlings is a 20-year-old student at Oxford University. He recently won a search by Harper Collins Publishers to identify the most multilingual student in the United Kingdom. This boss is able to speak 11 languages, ranging from English to Catalan. And…wait for it…Afrikaans! See him speak all of them fluently – after the jump.
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Siri To Power Mercedes-Benz Car Systems
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hey, future. Mercedes-Benz unveiled plans yesterday to use Siri – the virtual assistant exclusive to the iPhone 4S – to power its new A-class electronics system, called “Drive Kit Plus,” which will allow drivers to access their iPhone apps using voice commands. In case you ever feel like updating your Twitter status while driving something sexy.
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WikiLeaks Begins Releasing Stratfor Internal Emails
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
WikiLeaks is doing stuff that doesn’t involve Julian Assange’s career as a television personality – in this case leaking a cache of over 5 million internal emails from Stratfor, a “global intelligence” company. They reveal secret intelligence services provided to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, among others.
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“Bad” Cocaine Killed Amazing Race Producer
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Following further investigation it has come to light that Jeff Rice, the American TV producer found dead in his hotel room in Uganda, died after ingesting contaminated cocaine and not as a result of being poisoned as was initially thought.
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Russian Protestors Form Human Circle Around Moscow Against Putin
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tens of thousand of protestors have done something awesome, and there wasn’t even any violence involved. Vladimir Putin is up for re-election in Russia, and a lot of people aren’t happy about it. Instead of petrol bombs and angry mobs, something much cooler happened. Check it out.
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Nokia Unveils 41-Megapixel Camera Phone
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There is no error in that headline – Nokia has really just unveiled the PureView 41-megapixel-sensor camera in one of its new smartphones – the Lumia 808. Additionally, the device has extremely good sound recording capabilities and will also allow the user to capture video content in full HD.
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The Cirque du Soleil’s Incredible Academy Awards Performance [VIDEO]
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So it was the Oscars last night, where we got to watch Billy Crystal act smug about being considered relavent by somebody. Also Christopher Plummer finally won something. Also there was this – the Cirque du Soleil’s incredible, film-themed performance – which works out well, thematically. Take a look.
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Rare 19th Century Foundations Found In Cape Town
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Contract archaeologist, Katie Smuts, said on Friday that she estimated the foundations were constructed between 1830 and 1850, and that archaeologists were trying to determine their significance. Smuts jokingly compared that the styles revealed on the porcelain artefacts they found helped determine their age because it was similar to comparing the styles that hipsters wore on their clothes in the year 2012.
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Concise Short Film Covers ALL You Need To Know About The Brutal Conflict In Syria [VIDEO]
24 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There is a civil war raging in Syria that seems to have slipped the attention of the masses. This raw and unforgiving short film is the way for you to get up to date with the savage conflict tearing up a Syrian city.
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Video Powered by ClipCartel.comParis Hilton: ‘Drunk Text’ Music Video Leaked
24 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At first we thought this was some kind of burlesque joke, maybe even a mashup of sorts, but we’re afraid it isn’t. Paris has actually recorded this as a music video. And it’s meant to be her “latest” single. It’s a techno collaboration with the house music production duo, Manufactured Superstars.
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Chris Brown Bust Stealing
24 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Rapper Chris Brown cannot catch a break this week. A woman in Florida has laid theft charges against him after he allegedly stole her iPhone and drove off with it when she was snapping pics of him in his car outside da club.
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Nude Domestic Worker Service Now Available
24 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Jean-Paul Reid was an unemployed Cape Town accountant, until he came up with the idea that people might like it if their domestic worker worked in the nude. He’d sold off pretty much everything he owned in his flat, except his laptop and 3G device. Then he created a website for his concept, and struck gold.
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Nerds Put A Price Tag On Building A Death Star
23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The peeps over at Centives have burnt their scientific calculators to a crisp working out the approximate cost in 2012 US Dollars of building a life size, working replica of the iconic planet killing space station from Star Wars, the Death Star. Needless to say, we can’t afford it.
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Google Street View To Reveal Great Barrier Reef [PICS]
23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Street View is pretty great! It lets me see rural villages, the National Gallery in London, post-crisis Fukushima, and your house. And soon, in collaboration with the Catlin Seaview Survey, it’ll be letting people explore Great Barrier Reef as part of the expanding ‘Seaview’ project.
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This Is BBC News Like You’ve Never Seen It Before [VIDEO]
23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
News broadcasts, albeit informative, are often boring affairs lacking the flair that many viewers hope for, that is at least until Cassetteboy gets hold of a copy. Their latest ‘remix’ features the BBC’s George Alagiah reporting on issues that would make any political pundit cringe.
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Scientists Did Not Break The Speed Of Light
23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The universe as we know it is safe for now, and so is Einstein’s theory of special relativity. Physicists who shocked the scientific world by claiming particles could move faster than the speed of light have admitted they made a mistake. Their reasoning: a faulty fiber-optic cable in a GPS receiver.
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If You Want To Delete Your Google Web History, Do It Now
23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google’s new unified privacy policy takes effect on March 1st, allowing Google to share users’ data among all of its products. This means that your entire Google Web History – everything you’ve searched for on Google, and every site you’ve visited while signed in to a Google account – will be pooled together.
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Pope Benedict Takes To Twitter To Save Lent
23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This week, the Catholic Church begins its annual Lenten cycle, culminating in the holy days associated with Easter in just over a month, and given the flagging interest many young Catholics around the world are apparently showing in sticking to their Lenten vows, the Pope is taking his fight for their pledges to the Twittersphere.
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Beware The ‘Googlighting’ Stranger, Microsoft Vs Google [VIDEO]
23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Microsoft has launched a fascinating attack on Google Apps. In this instalment, Microsoft uses the American television series, Moonlighting, which aired during the mid 1980’s, to give us the spoof: Googlighting. Microsoft asks: “What happens when the world’s largest ad sales business tries to sell productivity software on the side?” It’s Microsoft Office versus Google Apps.
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