From the billionaire who wants to build an 80,000 person colony on mars, create auto-pilot cars, and envisions the a steel tube that will get 28 passengers from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes, comes this awesome video. Check out Elon Musk’s out of this world rocket skills.
Surf videos just got even more gnarly than before. Surfers are being shot from whole new angles using drones. Check out the fresh new perpective in this video.
Apart from being charged with the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, Oscar Pistorius will face two extra charges when he appears in court on 19 August. eNCA reports that Pistorius will face two extra counts of recklessly discharging a firearm in public.
Look, prevention is better than cure. If you’re the curator of a small consumer goods boutique of any kind, the guardian of the office stationary cupboard, or the curator f the home bar, you’ll know that “shrinkage” can get out of hand pretty quickly. If you’re battling sticky fingers, get your hands on this quick […]
Gaming pieces have been uncovered in a 5,000 year-old burial site in Turkey. They could be the oldest gaming pieces found, ever. Small sculpted stones in the shapes of pigs, dogs, pyramids, dice, and so on were found in the site that was inhabited as early as 7,000 BC.
Apparently, most of you girls out there are wearing the wrong bra-size. Whether its the wrong cup-size, or lack of material around the back, its happening. The okes at ThirdLove aren’t standing for this, so, with a R56 million budget, they have developed an app that can measure your exact bra size from a couple of photos taken of you in a tank top.
Just when science thought it knew everything, a new species of mammal pops up on the radar. The Olinguito is the first new carnivore species to be found in the Western Hemisphere in the last 35 years!
According to a report, a group of 20 villagers from Sa-eab, in Northern Thailand, blocked one of the Street View cars, interrogated the driver, and demanded he swear on a statue of Buddha that he wasn’t up to no good.
One year ago today, 34 miners were killed by South African police and military forces at Lonmin’s Rustenburg platinum mines. One year on, the Mail & Guardian asks why those men died, and if South Africa will ever see a repeat of the Marikana massacre.
You gotta love the options available for billionaires on their superyachts. They refer to the boats that take you to shore as tenders and the the other gadgets (submainres etc.) as toys. These are our faves..
It’s 2003, and Grade 8 pupil Christian Rabie is playing with his friends. They’re flipping each other in the air in the cricket nets. He landed on the ground and fractured his skull. The North Gauteng High Court has ordered the MEC for education to pay him R23,5 million in damages
A zoo in China thought they could get away with labelling a Tibetan mastiff as an “African Lion”. To be fair, the Tibetan mastiff is a rather large dog, with long hair and a lion-like mane. It kind-of looks like a lion. Too bad it barks though, which is what gave it away in the end.
So it seems that we may have let the cat out of the bag yesterday when we tweeted a picture of what seems to be a new Savanna variant or possibly an entirely new product. At this stage, we are none the wiser as to whether this is in fact the real deal or simply […]
China buying up SA newspapers. NUM won’t be at the Marikana commemoration. Obama condemns Egypt violence. Teachers ‘duck and dive’ bullets in Cape Town. Agliotti to take on SARS. Google/Microsoft war. Weekend sports multiple for you to cash in.
Cast your minds back about a year or so ago. You’ll recall we offered you, the fans, an incredible multiple sports betting opportunity – and a handful of you won hundreds of thousands of Rands – not to be sniffed at. Well, it’s back, but this time you have total control of your own multiple bets – that’s right, you can create your own.
There are reports that while Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were still married, Pitt had a wondering eye that fell on Angelina Jolie. And there has been some tension between the female actresses. And the pair almost ran into each other on a flight to London.
Over recent weeks there has been an increase in gang violence in the Manenberg area and as a result 14 schools will close their doors on Thursday and Friday as they fear for the safety of the teachers and pupils.
Ecce Homo is the Spanish fresco whose restoration was botched after parishioner, Cecillia Gimenez attempted to restore the painting to its former glory. The ruined fresco now enjoys the nickname ‘Monkey Christ’ and has become a serious tourist attraction with over 40,000 people making their way to the church to view the failure. Epic win?
This Sky Broadband ad, featuring Bruce Willis has been banned in the UK. Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority said: We concluded that the ad did not make sufficiently clear the extent of the commitment consumers had to make in order to obtain the broadband service at the advertised price
Smartphone and tablet manufacturer HTC has a new $1 billion (R9,9 billion) advertising campaign which is aimed at positioning the company alongside Samsung and Apple. Haha.
The isolated Kawahiva tribe was recorded in Brazil in 2011. The footage has been released and shows a rare look at the tribe people in the forest.
Philip Austin Collins, the nephew of Genesis front man, Phil Collins (weird that they have the same name) is in a Peruvian jail for being found with £3 million (R46,321,083) worth of cocaine last year, and allegedly recruited these two drug mules from behind bars to continue his dirty work: Melissa Reid, 19 (Top) and […]
Elton John has released more than his fair share of monster hits, but his most famous track is undoubtedly ‘Your Song’. The song was released in 1970, and was written by Bernie Taupin when he was 17-years-old, “hence the extraordinary virginal sentiments”. Virginal sentiments aside, the song was written in 10 minutes at a breakfast table.
This newborn giant Panda, Yuan Zai was reunited with its mother, Yuan Yuan after being separated for 12 months. The newborn is Taiwan’s first baby giant Panda. Baby Yuan Zai was born on 6 July 2013, but was injured only a few days later, resulting in the newborn being incubated.
Coca-Cola has launched a new print advertising campaign which some have called a “propaganda campaign” in an attempt to reverse declining sales. The ads show the company defending the use of its sweetener, aspartame. The ad reads, “time and again, these low and no calorie sweeteners have shown to be safe, high-quality alternatives to sugar”.
Ever wondered what those hooded Americans known as the Ku Klux Klan get up to in their spare time? Photographer Anthony Karen did. That’s how he got this incredible gallery of photos showing one of the most feared, secretive, and marginalised pocket of society in the world, the KKK. To gain access to this secret society […]
CNN has just announced that they will be revamping their website, to the tune of $15 million (around R140 million). Sound familiar? In March, the Free State government announced they would be spending the same amount of money on their website. Weird that a provincial website would cost the same as a global news network’s […]
The man responsible for Facebook chat, News Feeds and the layout of Facebook as you know it is taking his creative “genius” to Instagram. Star product manager, Peter Deng, has joined Instagram as its first director of product, and sees a lot of the same issues with Instagram that Facebook experienced in 2007.
Twitter is used for many things these days, but it is also key to remember who may be following you. This Canadian mechanic used Twitter to request marijuana from local drug dealers. He also asked them to deliver the stash to his work. And that’s when the York Regional Police retweeted him, asking if they can come along, too.
Capetonian filmaker, Dan Mace made this short film that is a celebration of life for all of us living in Cape Town. Mace said: Being a young filmmaker from one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Cape Town — South Africa, it is hard to not be inspired by the world around me.