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Viral video: Johannesburg Metro police officer attacked in Hillbrow

A video of a group of people attacking a Johannesburg Metro Police (JMPD) officer has gone viral on both Twitter and Facebook. The video…

Disney wants to undercut Netflix’s price ahead of 2019’s streaming war

If you feel that Netflix charges users a bit too much for its streaming content, don’t worry, Disney’s CEO thinks so too. Quoted by MarketWatch,…

mother! movie review: antagonising, violent, nauseating

Stepping into the cinema for Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into. I had heard that audiences hated…

Sexual assault accused Bryan Singer deletes Twitter, online articles removed

The Usual Suspects director Bryan Singer — who also helmed most of the X-Men films — has, in three lawsuits, been accused of sexual assault since 1997. Two of…

A list of Kevin Spacey’s sexual misconduct accusers so far

Amid mass claims of sexual misconduct actor Kevin Spacey has been “suspended” from House of Cards (he’s essentially fired), and his film All the Money in the…

Uber’s wildly odd ad will resonate with Capetonians stuck in traffic daily

Uber’s first advertisement highlighting the plight of commuters in southeast Asia may just trigger a nerve for those stuck in traffic in Cape Town…

Stranger Things, Finn Wolfhard and the web’s insistence on sexualising kids

If you were on the internet during Harry Potter‘s prime, you may know that, among the children developing crushes on Daniel Radcliffe and Emma…

Aussie surfer Mick Fanning fends off shark in epic clash of species

When surfers take on sharks in their natural habitat, it’s usually the wave riders who come off second best. Apparently though no one told…

Nostalgia fuel: 5 reboots of geeky TV shows about to hit our screens

One of the latest global trends is that of bringing back old shows and movies with new TV shows. These new ‘resurrections’ are a…

These are the Hollywood trailers that have YouTubers seriously pumped

Trailers have always been important for a movie’s success, but a decade’s worth of YouTube has only increased the weight people place on a…

Watch the first episode of The One Rand Family

Sanlam has released the first video for the sequel to its multi-award winning One Rand Man series. After tweeting out a teaser image last…

Sherlock special returns to Victorian England, is knowingly self-referential

It’s been a good while since fans of the BBC series Sherlock had anything to cheer about. It has, after all, been more than…

Jack Black looks completely awesome in first Goosebumps trailer

Hey nineties kid, Hollywood is making yet another play for your nostalgia fueled dollars. Sony Pictures yesterday released a trailer for the big screen…

This infographic shows you the real difference between UX and UI designers

To people outside the digital space, a designer is a designer. Dig a little deeper and you quickly realise that there are many different…

Fassbender appears to channel inner psycho in new ‘Steve Jobs’ trailer

Universal Pictures has released the latest trailer for its Steve Jobs movie, starring Michael Fassbender and written by Aaron Sorkin. And by the looks…

GoPro films massive Great White shark trying to munch its way into a cage

Never will you be more petrified than when a three-meter shark tries to munch its way into your little underwater cage all the way…

This Samurai Jack fan tribute will get devotees seriously excited

It’s been 11 years since there was last a new Samurai Jack episode. And there’s no clear sense of when, or even if, the…

Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket explode in mid-air

Space X’s Falcon 9 programme has had its first ever failure. Two minutes and 19 seconds after taking off on Sunday, a Falcon 9…

Snapchat wants you to know it’s very, very serious about ads

This has an air of inevitability about it. Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel has released an infomercial aimed at showing advertisers just how serious it…

Record-holding US$511m Jurassic World gets even better…with dachshunds

Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg and created in our prehistoric nightmares, has captivated audiences since 1993. The four movies are set on a…

Bjork releases a 360-degree music video

Bjork’s retrospective at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art has come to an end. The reviews have been mixed, one described it as…

This ad lets the world know what Karl Ahari’s been up to lately

You may have been wondering what Karl Ahari, the second rate magician who starred in what turned out to be ecommerce giant Kalahari’s final…

YouTube turns ten, throws itself an epic birthday party [video]

Any other 10-year-old would have their parents organise a birthday party, invite friends, and hire a jumping castle. Not YouTube. On its tenth birthday…

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

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

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