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Oh Canada: 3 memorable Montreal races from the F1 archives

Circuit Giles Villeneuve is one amazing track. Although it’s a temporary street circuit set in the heart of Montreal’s Olympic basin, it’s home to…

Dare to dream, dare to fail: 4 lessons from Adelaide Potgieter’s MadWorld

South African entrepreneur and the founder of creative agency group MadWorld, Adelaide Potgieter, is very daring. In between rocky roads of the past, vulnerabilities,…

EGE 2015: fuelling Cape Town’s growing hunger for gaming and tech

This past weekend I attended the Electronic and Gaming Expo (EGE) at the CTICC, the first major expo of its kind to take place…

Africa’s the new China — here’s why investors should care

Apart from the fact that one is a continent and the other a country, Africa is the new China. This seems like an odd…

Audi’s synthetic fuels: is this the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for?

A couple of years back, German automaker Audi quietly opened an e-gas plant in Werlte, Germany. The factory — which is run on renewable…

Kalvin Subbadu: Watch out, there’s more to come from WD South Africa

WD (the hard drive division of Western Digital Corporation) has been a big player in the storage industry since the early 1970s. The Irvine,…

Jorge Lorenzo’s in the form of his life: the weekend motorsport roundup

This weekend’s motorsport action, although contending with the lull after Monaco and Indy, was anything but stale. The NASCAR Sprint Cup series rolled on…

4 stellar TV shows ‘inspired’ by even better games

More than ever before, TV and film look to the medium of the game for inspiration. Just look at that enormous pile of shit,…

Click n Compare wants to help you compare the price of pretty much of everything online

In late 2011 Peter Allestorfer and Manuel Koser launched Zando — a Rocket Internet-backed platform where South Africans can buy clothes and other fashion…

From Liquid to Solid: a Metal Gear retrospective

Solid Snake is the main character of Hideo Kojima’s well-known Metal Gear series and one of the gaming world’s greatest icons. This silent footed…

5 pieces of tech missing in today’s cars, according to Quora

Have you ever sat in traffic, had a look around your car and thought there was something missing? Some piece of tech which, if…

Nespresso Gran Maestria review: excellent coffee, at a price

Now for something completely different. Nespresso’s Gran Maestria is a rare treat. It’s a coffee machine so incredibly well designed, it looks bespoke (but…

Hong Kong and Singapore: meet the ‘evil twin’ startup ecosystems of Southeast Asia

Singapore and Hong Kong are Southeast Asia’s famous city-states. Both are offshore financial centres for the rest of Asia (and beyond), with a strong…

The Hamilton-Rosberg saga continues: 5 moments you missed in motorsport this weekend

There are just too many wonderful motorsport events and series to fit into a comparatively short weekend. Sadly because of this, many exciting moments…

From Apple to Timex: the A to Z smartwatch guide

Sick of smartwatches yet? Unfortunately, they’re here for the foreseeable future to enslave the wrists of the countless masses. While the technology is debatably…

Are African remittance startups missing the bigger picture?

Ventureburn recently posted an article about startups trying to pop Africa’s remittance bubble. I applaud the efforts of these startups in trying to address…

Don’t get mad: here are 5 timed Xbox One and PS4 exclusives

We all know by now the furore that was raised when it was announced that Rise of the Tomb Raider would be a timed…

Want to sell stuff online? Here are 7 SA services that can help

The South African ecommerce landscape is at an exciting stage where both big players like Takealot and niche ones like League of Beers are…

5 extinct Japanese sportscars that deserve modern successors

If you’re into cars, you’ll no doubt have spent your fair share of time coveting all sorts of stunning (probably Italian) four-wheeled machinery. You…

Asus Zenfone 4 review: the best $100 Android smartphone yet

ASUS, apart from making the low-cost Nexus 7 tablets for Google, has mostly focused on high-end devices. Its PadFone lineup, which boasts of smartphones…

5 handy collaboration tools your startup team can use to be more efficient

Any startup using email as their primary mode of communication when it comes to managing projects should understand that it takes an unnecessary amount…

These are the 11 most challenging boss battles of all time

I’ve been gaming since before I could read, and if I could have played Game Boy as a Foetus (Womb Raider?), I would have….

These are the 7 youngest drivers in F1 history

News has broken that Max Verstappen, currently 16 years old, has been signed up to race for the Toro Rosso team for the 2015…

TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

Altron FinTech Index signals modest household recovery, but affordability gap persists

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

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV