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Video: Hurricane Hunters fly through Irma as storm tops 290km/h

Hurricane Irma remains a Category 5 storm swirling away in the Atlantic Ocean, but that hasn’t stopped the Hurricane Hunters from flying through it….

The global piracy crackdown won’t change much [Opinion]

If you’re in the business of pirating your favourite TV shows, you’ve probably found it increasingly difficult to do so. Around the world, governments,…

SA box office: American Made in Hitman’s shade

Hitman’s Bodyguard has held on to the top spot for the third weekend in a row after a relatively boring week at the movies. Competing with…

Last week in trailers: Mr Robot, bald Vince Vaughn, and talking hormones

The last week in trailers promoted a bald and serious Vince Vaughn, a cartoon about anthropomorphic hormones and a drama about shrinking humans to…

5 Netflix exclusives coming to South Africa this September

It’s (sort of) spring, and what better way to celebrate the beautiful weather than by staying indoors and catching up on all the wonders…

#19YearsLater: Twitter celebrates Harry Potter’s epilogue day

In the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, readers are taken to King’s Cross Station one last time to watch Harry’s son Albus Severus…

Man charged with killing kangaroo after posting violent video online

A Chinese man has been charged with destroying protected wildlife in Australia after allegedly killing a kangaroo and posting a video of the act to…

This folk-pop number should leave you clamoring to fund the Tesla Museum

Let’s say you’re Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman. Now let’s say that you’ve already managed to convince Elon Musk to donate a million dollars to…

This Humans Of New York troll is the best parody yet [video]

Actor Tyler Fischer recently trolled Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York and it is hilarious. Brendon Stanton, the man behind the Humans of…

Watch a drone video of the world’s largest march on climate change

Over 300 000 suspected marchers turned up for the People’s Climate March in New York City recently. Some notables included UN Secretary General Ban-Ki…

From Messi to the DA: these are YouTube’s most popular ads in SA [video]

As much as we may be annoyed with pre-roll ads on YouTube, there are some out there that do their job, very well. Take…

Conan O’Brien has figured a way to completely remove all traces of U2 from your memory [video]

Our Stuart and Michelle took on Apple and called out the company’s creepiness regarding its automatic addition of the U2 album onto user’s iCloud…

First person to buy the iPhone 6 drops it: internet has a chuckle [video]

Well this is unfortunate. Buying a new phone is a great thing and a wonderful experience, but not for Jack. For this iPhone fan,…

No more reboots: it’s time for Hollywood to stop getting ideas from Twitter

On a cool summers evening in 1998, at the tender age of 12, my best friend at the time convinced me to watch I…

The Oscar Pistorious trial verdict is heating up: watch it live [Updated]

Things are heating up as Judge Thokozile Masipa reads her verdict in the murder trial of Paralympic and Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius. So far…

YouTube is opening a school and it has an easy curriculum: listen, laugh and give

YouTube is opening a school and wants you to listen, laugh and give. The School of YouTube will open from 8 to 12 September….

What would it take to make a hack-proof iPhone 6? Funny or Die knows

Wouldn’t be great if you could have a phone with all Apple’s design nous but without having to worry about the possibility of all…

Wait what? CNN thinks 4Chan is a person?

The recent Apple iCloud hack that saw private photos and nude selfies from dozens of celebrities spread across the web is abhorrent. It’s very…

5 examples of Hyperlapse turning everyday moments into smooth exciting time lapses

Photo-editing company Instagram, has just launched a new app called Hyperlapse. This is the second standalone app released by the Facebook-owned mobile photo company…

Lego Ghostbusters will give you a serious nostalgia rush

In case you haven’t had your terrifying daily reminder of the inexorable march of time, we’d like to let you know that it’s been…

BitTorrent’s making a sci-fi and it looks pretty damn prescient

If you know BitTorrent for anything, it’s as a tool that allows you to download pirated content legitimately shared files and folders. But now…

13 tech and geek heroes taking on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

We live in strange times. This past week or two we’ve probably seen more celebrities getting soaked in ice water than all of our…

Epson Survey Reveals Surge in Demand for Projectors as Home Cinema Trend Takes Off

Opera Mini Brings Free AI to South Africa, Tackling Data Costs and Boosting Digital Inclusion

HONOR X7c: Does This Budget Beast Deliver on Battery and That 108MP Camera?

Umvuzo Health Turns 21 with a Tech-Driven Medtech Model That’s Redefining Corporate Healthcare

Kazang Brings Card Payments to Spaza Shops, Driving Fintech-Fuelled Financial Inclusion

Flutterwave Launches Accelerate Workshop to Upskill Young Africans in Tech

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