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New Suicide Squad movie trailer shows more crazy, looks fun

Warner Brothers has released another trailer for DC Comics’s upcoming movie, Suicide Squad. This time, around it’s not as heavy on the humor and…

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them trailer teases us with more Rowling excellence

The first official teaser trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is out, and it does, indeed, look fantastic. It is set…

Drone smashes through CT entrepreneur’s window, hits him in the head

Cape Town has a reputation for bad drivers, but if this video is anything to go by, the city’s drone pilots might not be…

Feast your eyes on the first teaser trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

After the critical success of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, it’s time for the next big screen Rebels vs. The Empire cinematic….

Think you have mad Snapchat skills? Check out this stop-motion video

This is pretty damn cool. Snapchat user Joe Penna, who calls himself MysteryGuitarMan! on YouTube, has created an 85-second stop motion film which may…

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies movie review: marriage, love, and zombies

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a novel that’s studied the world over and has been adapted countless times. It’s made Colin Firth famous. To some,…

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice makes over $424m in its opening weekend [update]

Update: This article has been updated to include additional information for South African cinemas. Critics have hammered the latest DC Comics movie, Batman v Superman: Dawn…

Nando’s takes bite at Cell C ‘CEO’ campaign [Viral video]

After the exhaustive stranglehold that comedian Trevor Noah and mobile operator Cell C have had on the South African media landscape, it appears that…

District 9 director’s strange new viral video

After the runaway success of “District 9“, sc-fi lovers have been waiting with bated breath to find out what director Neill Blomkamp will do…

Ex-cricket captain Michael Vaughan punches an interviewer. Real or fake?

A video clip has surfaced on YouTube showing former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan being recorded for a television interview. Vaughan represented England and…

‘Old Spin Guy’ makes his first video response to 5FM DJ @GarethCliff

Old Spin Guy, the ZANews puppet of President Jacob Zuma, posted his first video response online to 5FM’s controversial morning DJ Gareth Cliff early…

Viral video alert: President Zuma gets the ‘Old Spice Guy’ treatment

Barely a week ago, the youth league of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s ruling party, took issue with the social media world…

Facebook blocks your exes from appearing in ‘Photo Memories’

Since May this year Facebook has been dishing out nostalgia via the aptly-named “Photo Memories”. The next time you’re randomly stalking surfing around Facebook…

The inside story of the Cape Town iceberg

The Liqui-Fruit iceberg has been one of the most successful viral campaigns of 2010, moving effortlessly from YouTube to Twitter and Facebook and into…

Official: Cape Town iceberg a Liqui-Fruit campaign

Days of speculation are at an end after Liqui-Fruit and its advertising agency, Liquorice stood up and claimed responsibility for the Cape Town iceberg…

Cape Town iceberg: Liqui-fruit stakes a claim

Finally, one of the big corporates has stood up and staked its claim to the iceberg that was spotted off Clifton Beach on Monday…

So you work on the internet. But what do you do?

New buzzwords and job titles abound in the world of online marketing and web development. This is partly due to savvy (and not so…

Woolies: Now the artists get in on the act

Woolworths might have thought that its decision to put Christian magazines back on the shelves would put an end to the controversy which blew…

The birth of a meme

It is common knowledge that Twitter has become a vital source of breaking news and a generator of memes that spread throughout the internet….

Eric Schmidt and the art of tact

Eric Schmidt has an interesting job at Google. His official position is co-CEO with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin but his job title…

The art of the vague tweet

Over the past few years, as I’ve become more and more engrossed in the twittering world, I’ve noticed a technique develop amongst various luminaries…

How do SA’s stand-up comics use Facebook?

Our first look at the biggest local Facebook pages created such a stir we decided to dig deeper into the different ways South Africans…

Huawei’s All-Optical smart-home showcase unleashes a new era of home connectivity in Africa

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