Being an astronaut has always been one of the ultimate "cool" career options out there. There can be little doubt though that Commander Chris Hadfield has taken it to another level.The 53-year-old Canadian astronaut has sent tweets to his 700 000+ followers from space, done a Reddit AMA and now, on the verge of his return from five months on the International Space Station, recorded a David Bowie cover.The cover, which comes with an appropriately epic video, required ...

There goes all the information at your fingertips, says every feature phone owner who uses Google's SMS search. According to reports, the search giant has shut down the service that allowed people to send search queries via text message by texting their queries to "466453" (GOOGLE).Apparently the service was stopped in the last week with no word from Google until users took to forums to query the shutdown. A Google employee going by the name of Jessica S ...

The internet has been waiting for this moment for a long time. The first trailer for the new series of Arrested Development has surfaced online.When it was first announced that Netflix was resurrecting the acclaimed series, there was excitement, followed by understandable apprehension. Would it be as funny? Could the cast recapture their old chemistry and would Netflix allow the show's scriptwriters the kind of freedom they never had with the networks?If this trailer is anything to go by, ...

One of the things I find myself talking to clients about more and more is app development. Until fairly recently, to have an app you needed to be one of the big players like AFGA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) but today you can be a small country-specific business such as NoMU or as global retailer such as ZARA. The point is, anyone can really have an app these days, but the question is should they?The way I explain it ...

Sometimes all it takes is a few wrong words to cause an unrivalled uproar -- a fact which celebrities are very well acquainted with. Social media sites are a magnet for collecting those wrong words. Here are seven impressive examples showing how a little tweet can make a big noise.50 Cent wants to make a positive impactHe tweeted:"Speaking of MILF. I wanna do something that impacts kids in a positive way, that's why I'm opening an abortion clinic. Ima ...

When you snapped, cropped and filtered your last latté, did you stop to think about the company behind the retro photo app, and how it got to where it is today? Perhaps, instead, you took a moment to appreciate the simplicity of a touchscreen, and imaged what a life without physical keys would be like. But perhaps you should be thinking about what life would be like without the internet, on another planet.Confused? These are just a few of ...

If you’re reading this post, chances are you are a big fan of both video games and films. When I was doing research for this article I found that many of my favourite films already have a game version but most of them simply suck. They were either rushed through production to take advantage of the hype of the film or created as merely an add-on to the movie. I think if film-to-game transitions were created to stand on their ...

Kickstarter's founders Charles Adler, Perry Chen and Yancey Strickler have taken to the company's blog to address controversy surrounding big-name projects on the platform such as the Veronica Mars project and Zach Braff's latest film.The massive amount of money made by the celebrity-led projects has generated some serious angst about who the crowdfunding platform is really for. Anyone who could conceivably get funding elsewhere, the doubters say, should not be on Kickstarter.The founders say the aim of the ...

So it seems the rumours are true. YouTube has started rolling out some 53 paid channels, which require people to purchase a monthly subscription in order to watch their videos.In an official blog post announcing the new feature, the video sharing site said it decided to offer subscriptions for a number of its partner channels to offer them an additional way to make money from their content. These partner channels, which now number over 1-million, are those which have enabled ...

We recently told you about a South African team's bid to make the fastest feature film in history. A week later, that film now has a name and a trailer.The team, comprising members of Johannesburg-based production houses Team Best, Localala and Ghost Sheep will attempt to beat the current record, held in India and go from script writing to screening in 11 days, 23 hours and 45 minutes.The restrictions of the project meant that it didn’t have a name ...