Geek Culture

South Africa’s box office: unTransformed

It’s blockbuster season and every week is bringing in a new number one for South Africa to feast its eyes on. This week’s tribute was Transformers: The…

#HarryPotter20: South Africa celebrates Philosopher’s Stone’s 20th birthday

“Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much,” reads the…

Last week in trailers: Pitch Perfect 3, Game of Thrones 7 & more

It’s been a bounteous week for trailer lovers everywhere, as big names like Pitch Perfect and Game of Thrones were promoted alongside smaller indie films and clear Oscar…

#RTD2017: Rocking the Daisies announces lineup in annoying Twitter campaign

There’s nothing I hate more than a clever advertising campaign that forces me to tarnish my already messy social media brand. Local music festival…

Everything, Everything movie review: a serious Bubble Boy

Everything, Everything is every bit your typical teen romance about a sick girl and the boy who loves her. The film is cheesy. It…

MiniMeme Podcast #2: Films that inspire us (the youth)

Welcome to MiniMeme, the podcast brought to you by Burn Media’s junior staff as they tackle the topics that tickle their fancy. This week…

South Africa’s box office: Cars 3 buries The Mummy

Lightning McQueen had one last chance — one last dream — and South Africa refused to let him do it alone. If there’s one…

Nifty Disney trick turns your body into a speaker

This is pretty freaking cool. The egg heads at Disney’s research labs have come up with a new project that turns your body into…

Microsoft pulls its iPhone parody ads

A good parody is difficult to pull off and Microsoft has pretty much admitted it got it wrong with its latest efforts taking on…

Petition aims to make definition of Geek more positive in dictionaries

Here at Burn Media, we love geeks. They’re our bread and butter. Heck, most of us count ourselves as geeks and even got into…

Turns out Jimmy Kimmel is behind one of the web’s biggest twerking fails

The media loves twerking right now, even more so since Miley Cyrus started doing it. More than twerking and Miley Cyrus though, it loves…

This doo wop cover of Miley Cyrus’ We Can’t Stop is better than twerking

Haven’t quite recovered from the shock experience of seeing Miley Cyrus twerk on stage at the VMAs? Well, don’t let it tarnish her songs…

Check out Elon Musk’s real life ‘Iron Man’ gesture interface [Video]

It’s fairly common knowledge that billionaire innovator Elon Musk inspired the Tony Stark character in Iron Man but as it turns out, inspiration is…

UK rapper Dizee Rascal incorporates Vine elements in latest video

If you ever wanted a textbook example of how technology can influence pop culture, check out the latest music video from UK rapper Dizzee…

The secret’s out: Samsung admits its gadgets are made by aliens

‘Designed for humans’ maybe, but by humans? Not so much. The latest word to usher forth from Samsung HQ is that it all its…

How Google’s Project Loon will ride wind currents, provide stable coverage

When Google announced Project Loon, its bid to provide free global internet access using a network of high altitude balloons, we were naturally all…

Creatives and product shots: parody targets every tech commercial ever

Working up to the launch of a new smartphone/tablet/laptop and wondering how you can convince potential customers that something cold and shiny will make…

This is what you look like when you won’t get off your smartphone

If you own a smartphone, there’s a fairly good chance you’ve been guilty of allowing it to distract you from interacting with the people…

New SA 24 hour news station ANN7 launches to online ridicule

Look, it’s not easy starting a news channel. You need time, effort and a crack production team if you’re going to make a proper…

5 classic video moments from retiring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

Yup, Steve Ballmer today announced that he would retire as CEO of Microsoft within the next 12 months. And that means one very important…

Curiosity captures one Martian moon passing in front of the other [video]

The Curiosity Rover has done some pretty epic things since landing on Mars just over a year ago, but filming the larger of the…

9 huge investments Koos Bekker could make if he cashed in his Naspers shares

Here at Memeburn we have massive respect for Naspers CEO Koos Bekker. Aside from the fact that he heads up a multi-billion dollar media…

GPT 5.2 lands in the API and could reshape how SA builds with AI

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

GTA 6 Is Officially Coming in 2026: The New Date, the Delays and the South African Reality Check

The Gaming Gear South Africans Are Actually Buying This December

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