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Last week in trailers: Stranger Things, Star Wars & more

Star Wars: The Last Jedi had its official trailer release last week, and no major blockbusters were willing to compete with that screen time. The result? A week…

#Ophelia: Ireland prepares for storm by posting memes on Twitter

The remnants of Hurricane Ophelia is currently battering the south-western coastline of Ireland, but much of the country doesn’t seem to be taking it…

Watch: Major Lazer’s ‘Particula’ video flaunts South Africa and Nigeria’s creative genius

American recording trio Major Lazer may have been slammed in the past for making coin from cultural appropriation, but its latest track brings out…

Twitter suspends Rose McGowan after speaking against Weinstein Co.

Actress Rose McGowan, who has been using her Twitter account to speak out against Hollywood production studio The Weinstein Company, has had her account…

Eminem disses Trump in freestyle verse, South Africa is split

Rapper Eminem unleashed a four-minute-long freestyle criticising US President Donald Trump at Tuesday’s BET Hip Hop Awards, and the South African responses have been…

Netflix in South Africa: fastest ISPs revealed for September [Update]

Netflix launched in South Africa more than a year ago, officially supporting the region with TV shows and movies. But the streaming service has…

[Watch] Star Wars: The Last Jedi official trailer is here

The Star Wars franchise may be going through some trials of will and creative differences, but it’s time to brush that all aside so…

This time-lapse of the #MuizenbergFire shows how quickly it spread in just two hours

The massive fire which has been raging across Cape Town’s Southern peninsula since the early hours of Sunday morning has consumed massive tracts of…

One Rand Man gets a documentary, will be used as educational aid

Anyone who was paying the vaguest bit of attention to the media in mid 2014, you would have noticed plenty of coverage around Sanlam’s…

Science allows blind man to see wife for first time in 10 years, will give you serious feels

This is bound to bring a tear to your eye. A new form of bionic eye has allowed a man to see his wife…

This dark short film shows that Power Rangers is all about child soldiery

A fresh yet dark take on the classic Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers saga features North Korea-punching, cussing, child soldiery and some other super controversial…

Sesame Street teaches kids more than maths with ‘House of Cards’ parody

We’re not sure kids will fully understand Sesame Street’s House of Cards parody — unless they’ve managed to figure out their parents’ Netflix account…

The greatest SuzelleDIY parody, and why you should attempt your own

The true success of a TV show, new idea or artwork can often be measured by the parodies it spawns. Think about it: Weird…

Apple actually wants you to be that douchebag filming stuff on their iPad

You’re out at a concert, or festival, or any other kind of public event really, and then you see them: the person filming the…

15 of the most WTF online videos to come out of South Africa

The footage of a TransAsia plane clipping a bridge and crashing into a river has to be one of the most WTF moments of…

Here are 10 awesome #MugabeFalls memes made by Memeburn readers

After forcing journalists to delete pictures and suspending 27 of his body guards, Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe’s fall, or just #MugabeFalls, blew up in…

Google’s new Android ad is totally adorable

Google has launched a new Android advert and it’s designed to appeal to the kind of person who loves posting videos of unlikely animal…

Game of Thrones Season 5 trailer shows Tyrion’s beard, Needle and a wedding [video]

Game of Thrones Season 5 is nearly upon us. HBO’s epic incarnation of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels will…

New Jurassic World trailer features a total glut of dinosaurs

Universal Pictures used this weekend’s Super Bowl — the biggest day in both American sport and advertising — to launch a new trailer for…

Coco-Cola thinks spilling Coke on a server can save the web from trolls

Anyone who’s ever spilled Coke on a piece of electronics knows that it’s pretty much a death knell for that particular device. If the…

Helen Zille directing traffic was the best thing to happen this weekend

Western Cape premier Helen Zille can occasionally find herself at the center of some very nasty Twitter spats. Over the weekend however, she did…

Dear Kitten: Buzzfeed’s pre-Superbowl ad is totally adorable

In the US advertising space, no day on the calendar is as big as Superbowl Sunday. Even agencies from countries where people only have…

TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

EmpowaEntrepreneurs 2025 Targets Africa’s High-Growth Founders and Investors

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

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