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Weekly Round Up Podcast #106: Google I/O & WannaCry ransomware

This week, the trusty Hadlee Simons hosts Andy Walker and Stephen Timm. To start us off, Andy talks about WannaCry, the worldwide attack involving…

Weekly Round Up Podcast #105: WhatsApp’s blackout, Windows 10 S & more

Welcome to Weekly Round Up, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week sees Hadlee…

Weekly Round Up Podcast #104: Huffington Post SA, Xiaomi Mi 6 & more

Welcome to Weekly Round Up, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week sees all…

Weekly Round Up #103: Big Naspers/Takealot deal, government backtracks on R1.5bn fund

Welcome to Weekly Round Up, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week, Hadlee Simons…

Weekly Round Up Podcast #102: Pepsi’s controversial ad, LG G6 & more

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week, Hadlee Simons hosts…

Weekly Round Up #101: Top SA edtech startups, Telefunken TV scandal & more

Hadlee Simons plays host to a full team today as he is joined by Andy Walker, Graham van der Made and Matthew Alexander to…

Weekly Round Up Podcast #100: 22Seven, Super Mario Run & more

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the past few days. This time, Hadlee Simons plays…

Unforgiving Monaco: F1’s crown jewel

Easily the most unforgiving Formula 1 circuit of the year, Monaco presents a stiff challenge for drivers thanks to its slippery surface and tight, narrow…

4 tips to release employee-driven innovation

Increasingly, companies are recognising that innovation doesn’t only happen through investment in Research and Development. Businesses stand to gain a competitive advantage by involving…

Metro 2033: can bad dubs and subs ruin a game?

Metro 2033 is a 2010 post-apocalyptic, action-horror first person shooter set in the underground railway system of Moscow twenty years after a nuclear war…

Does your business model have the legs to go the distance?

To successfully run any business, shareholders, managers and directors of SMEs and privately-held companies can create enduring value through challenging the business model. To…

South Africa’s Brad Binder wins third Moto3 race in a row

Brad Binder’s Moto3 season just keeps getting better and better, as the South African won his third race in a row this weekend. Binder’s…

Weekly Round Up #63: Google I/O 2016, Nokia, Mango R1 sale & Max Verstappen

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation, and news from the last few days. This week, the main man…

Fintech has arrived and it’s changing the South African economy

The unemployment rate in South Africa is at an 11-year high, with 5.7-million people finding themselves without a job. The technological boom in the…

Ford Focus ST: feel the power!

“Be careful, it’s fast”. That was the warning given to me by a Ford representative when he dropped off the Focus ST at Burn…

6 great apps that can shoot & edit RAW photographs

Yes yes, shooting RAW photos on your smartphone is a bit of a weird thing to do. After all, it’s more suitable for dedicated cameras than…

Entrepreneurs, investors: innovating and funding startups in SA

A recent panel, entitled Unleashing Entrepreneurial Innovation in South Africa, at the Road to the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, yielded some interesting remarks from…

Google I/O 2016: Android N, Android Wear 2.0 and Daydream VR

It wouldn’t be a Google I/O conference without the company touching on its various iterations of Android, right? Anyway, the company shed more light…

Nintendo NX: why the rumoured shift to cartridges would make sense

Rumours have emerged this month that Nintendo is expected to ditch disc-based storage in favour of cartridges/cards for the Nintendo NX console. Whether it’s…

5 Nigerian startups with seriously disruptive capabilities

‘Disruptive’ is a powerful word, because it’s not really about a startup that is making money or one that is able to get millions…

Verstappen wins as Mercedes teammates tangle: the motorsport roundup

An understatement would be suggesting that this weekend’s motorsport action was crazy. Because it was much, much more than that. Formula 1 opened its…

Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 review: meat and potatoes

Foliage and carcasses. Thorns and fangs. Sparkly floating flowers and caped Elvis Presleys. This is the Plants vs Zombies series in a nutshell, a…

How can South Africa drive youth innovation and entrepreneurship?

Nearly a third of South Africa’s population is under the age of 14. As things stand, their future is uncertain. The economy is stagnant,…

OpenAI Quietly Launches ChatGPT-5 — And It’s a Game Changer

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Aura Edition Review: A Sleek, AI-Powered Ultrabook for the Work-Anywhere Era

WeThinkCode_ and South Cape TVET College Bring Software Engineering Training to Rural SA Youth

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

Capitec and Mama Money Launch Fintech Partnership to Empower Migrant Workers Across Africa

Flow Unveils World’s First Shoppable Audience Marketplace – A Fintech-Led Revolution in Digital Targeting

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel