The Netflix matchup between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul has redefined what a modern boxing event can be, fusing old-school boxing prestige with digital-age…
SA’s Dimension Data named Tour de France technology partner
South African IT solutions giant Dimension Data was today announced as the official technology partner for the Tour de France. The five year deal…
Drones, maps and social networks: how SA’s media has used tech to report on the #CapeFire
The fire sweeping across Cape Town’s Southern peninsula has dominated South African headlines for three days now. A number of factors, including the scale…
Apple sold more smartphones than anyone else in Q4 2014
Things are looking better than ever for Apple. Already the world’s first US$700-billion company, it now looks like it sold more smartphones in the…
Facebook now pretty much ubiquitous among SA students
If you’re a South African university student and don’t use Facebook, then you’re part of increasingly tiny minority. How tiny? Well according to new…
61 astonishing photos of the #MuizenbergFire shared on Twitter
Over the past 24 or so hours, South Africans have been avidly following the progress of a devastating wildfire raging across Cape Town’s Southern Peninsula….
Mxit: the rise and collapse of ‘Africa’s largest social network’
Flashback to 2010. Naspers is still a majority shareholder in Mxit, at this stage Africa’s largest social network and instant messaging client with 27-million…
Vodacom, Tigo come together, allow each others’ mobile money offerings to play nice
So much has been written about the good that mobile payments have done in Africa, that it’s easy to forget that the various offerings…
Science allows blind man to see wife for first time in 10 years, will give you serious feels
This is bound to bring a tear to your eye. A new form of bionic eye has allowed a man to see his wife…
Sesame Street teaches kids more than maths with ‘House of Cards’ parody
We’re not sure kids will fully understand Sesame Street’s House of Cards parody — unless they’ve managed to figure out their parents’ Netflix account…
Apple actually wants you to be that douchebag filming stuff on their iPad
You’re out at a concert, or festival, or any other kind of public event really, and then you see them: the person filming the…
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