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Water usage drops as Cape Town dam levels keep climbing

Unsurprisingly, Cape Town dam levels continued to climb this week. According to the City, dam levels are now at a combined 81.7%, increasing by…

VR entertainment could be coming to a British Airways flight near you

British Airways is testing a new on-board entertainment option for passengers in the form of VR movies, TV shows and calming excercises. “The headsets…

Facebook had real people transcribing your Messenger audio messages

Facebook is joining the list of companies that have been exposed for using real people to do jobs better suited for artificial intelligence. A…

Create your own Instagram AR effects with this new Facebook app

Now you can make your own AR camera effects and publish them on Instagram thanks to Facebook’s Spark AR, a new app the company…

Spectacles 3 is Snapchat’s stylish $380 augmented reality sunglasses

Now that its financials and user numbers are looking much better, Snapchat’s owner is doing this Spectacles thing all over again. Spectacles 3 is…

Nike Adventure Club is a shoe subscription service for kids

Nike has launched a clothing subscription service for growing children. In an announcement on Monday, the sportswear company revealed Nike Adventure Club, which “lets…

Cape Town dams break the 80% full mark, Theewaterskloof now beyond 70%

What a difference a drought makes. Back in 2017, Cape Town dams at this point in August were just 30.5% full. Now, as of…

Cape Town dams are now more than three-quarters full

The largest dams that feed Cape Town this week hold a little bit more water compared to last week, with the combined total extending…

Researchers ‘discover’ a new dinosaur species hiding in Johannesburg

Researchers from London’s Natural History Museum (NHM) and Johannesburg’s Wits University have identified a new species of dinosaur that has been hiding in a…

Chart: Here’s how much rain fell across Cape Town in July 2019

Cape Town endured a frightfully dry winter just a few years ago, but thankfully, Mother Nature is giving the city some much needed relief…

SAWS: Johannesburg, Pretoria are enjoying a much hotter winter than usual

Believe it or not (Cape Town), but this winter in South Africa has been a lot warmer for some parts of the country than…

NASA’s sun-kissed probe has already beamed 22GB of data back to Earth

Remember the Parker Solar Probe? NASA’s pioneering spacecraft has completed its first two orbits of the Sun in May, the agency announced. Incredibly, all…

Western Cape Gov: Uber, Bolt hijackings on the rise in parts of Cape Town

The Western Cape Government is calling on Uber, Bolt and drivers of other ehailing companies to practice caution when operating in parts of Cape…

Cape Town’s water tariffs could drop before summer as dam levels rise

Cape Town’s water tariffs could decrease in the coming months, thanks largely to the wet winter and increase in dam levels. This according to…

Cape Town’s Metrorail trains to shutter free SMS alert service from August

Cape Town’s Metrorail train service announced in a communication with commuters on Tuesday that it will soon shutter its free SMS notification service. Users…

Update: Another storm is heading towards Cape Town as the city’s dam levels skyrocket

Update #3, Tuesday 30 July, 10am: It was a blustery, rainy night for Cape Town, but judging by the latest satellite image posted by…

Airbnb believes it has a R10bn impact on South Africa’s economy

Airbnb in 2018 believes it had a direct economic impact of nearly R10-billion in South Africa, the company revealed in a release on Monday….

Cape Town dam levels surge nearly 20% in a wonderfully wet July

July was a particularly fruitful month for Cape Town and its surface water storage system. On the eve of yet another strong cold front,…

Elon Musk says Netflix and YouTube are coming to Teslas

“Netflix and drive” might become a thing now that Elon Musk revealed upcoming support for the streaming service and YouTube on his Tesla vehicles….

Pictures: Cold front brings snow to South Africa, and social media

Snow fell on Western Cape mountains after two cold fronts passed through the province on Monday and Tuesday, and South Africans didn’t miss the…

Cape Town dams now 65% full after rain from ‘intense’ cold front

All this rain in Cape Town has to go somewhere, right? According to the City, it seems that a fair amount has found its…

Update: two cold fronts, bringing snow and heavy rain, set to lash Cape Town on Tuesday

Update #6, Tuesday 23 July, 6pm: Looks like the bulk of the storm is largely over, at least for Cape Town. The latest satellite…

Taxi Live Africa brings Uber-like ehailing features to metered taxis

Since Uber arrived in South Africa in 2013, there’s been a fierce (and often violent) rivalry between those employing the technology and metered taxi…

You can now back up your Android phone from the Google One app

South African food delivery industry growing faster than international average [Sponsored]

Fun things to do on Friday the 13th [Sponsored]

Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [15/9/2019]

Khula, Bonang.ai to pitch at AfricArena Summit after winning Jozi, Cape Town events

These are the nine Rwandan startups pitching today at Seedstars Kigali

‘Headliner: NoviNews’ (Nintendo Switch) review: fake it until you make it

Android 10: when will your smartphone get the update?

Fujifilm announces X-A7 mirrorless camera, launching October

2020 Nissan GTR 50th Anniversary edition hits SA, starts at R2.4m

All new Toyotas will come with in-car WiFi and telemetry from September

Audi’s new cars in Germany will count you down, pace you to green lights