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YouTube censorship: what’s all the big fuss about?
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg visits Nigeria in African knowledge quest
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is currently on a business trip to Africa, according to his Facebook page. Zuckerberg stopped over in Nigeria, Facebook‘s largest…
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Back in the early 1900s when Wilbur and Orville Wright took off in the world’s first powered and sustained airplane, man knew that they could…
Edward Snowden working on spy-proof smartphone case for cyber-sleuths
Notorious public whistleblower Edward Snowden and famous hacker Andrew “Bunnie” Huang are co-developing a smartphone case that aims to protect users from wireless device snooping….
Arizona State University finds a way to control drones using brainwaves
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MomConnect Facebook Messenger chatbot launches at Durban AIDS conference
At this week’s 21st International AIDS Conference held in Durban, the Praekelt Foundation introduced a new Facebook Messenger chatbot integrated with the SA Department…
Did you know? These 10 human body parts can be replaced
Medical science and bio technology has given second chances to so many lives, especially in the form of prostheses. Gone are the days where your…
You can soon watch the Serengeti’s Great Migration in virtual reality
There’s no denying that virtual reality (VR) has changed the way we see the world around us. A new documentary, Exodus: The Great Migration, is but…
CRISPR could help scientists rewrite human DNA, develop perfect ‘being’
“Human beings are fairly close to being perfect,” correct? After all, there’s plenty to lay claim to that. We’ve developed flight without biological wings,…
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