Geek Culture

Last week in trailers: Justice League, Pacific Rim & more

There’s a massive list of major films that were promoted last week: from super-hyped franchises and serious Oscar contenders to trashy movies that know…

Netflix is raising its US prices, South Africa remains unscathed

Netflix is raising two of its tiers’ prices for US users, but that won’t affect South Africans, a spokesperson has said. Though the prices…

5 things I’d like to see in the Bob’s Burgers movie

The beloved cartoon Bob’s Burgers is getting a movie in 2020 and it should prove as ridiculous as the eight-season-long show. It’s too early to get…

TWR #124: ‘horrifying’ Oscar Pistorius movie, Google Pixel 2 & more

Welcome to The Weekly Roundup, where we talk the past week’s news in all things tech and startups. This week, Hadlee Simons hosts Andy…

Siri thought ‘Despacito’ was Bulgaria’s national anthem

For a brief moment on Wednesday, Apple’s voice assistant Siri thought that the national anthem of Bulgaria was “Despacito”. When asked “What is the…

Rocking The Daisies and OppiKoppi 2017: your essential festival app kit

It’s once again festival season in South Africa, and kicking off the year’s musical escapades is a weekend double header. Both Rocking The Daisies in…

Viral video: Chinese man risks falling to his death to avoid paying hotel bill

Staying in a hotel definitely has its perks. You needn’t ever make your bed, buffet breakfasts are rarely disappointing, and you usually have access…

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…

Memeburn’s 3-minute look at the updated Google Translate app [video]

A few days ago Google gave Google Translate an impressive update. Before the update, the online service was great for translating text which is…

Watch this hungry, hungry hippo torpedo after a speedboat [video]

Hippos are the classic stereotypes of fat and lazy. Find them by the lake during an African Safari, and you’ll see their round bodies…

Guardians of the Galaxy gets the 8-bit treatment

It was pretty much every geek’s favourite movie of 2014, so it should hardly be surprising that Guardians of the Galaxy has received the…

New Avengers: Age Of Ultron trailer will tear you apart from the inside

Marvel and Walt Disney have released the third Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer and it is brilliant. The first one was leaked on 22…

Gangs of Ballet are first SA band to release video exclusively on Twitter

South African band Gangs of Ballet today became the first in the country to release a music video exclusively on Twitter. The video, for…

25 geeky movies you can look forward to in 2015

On the face of it, there’s plenty for geeks to get excited about on the movie front in 2015. Things have never been better…

CNN pre-recorded this marching band in case of the apocalypse [video]

According to a former CNN intern, the American news corporation’s archives contain a pre-recorded Doomsday video, with the status “HFR [Hold For Release] till…

Watch 86 of 2014’s biggest movies edited into 7 minutes [video]

Movie fiends will let you know that watching movies is an expensive and time consuming habit. And now that filmmakers appear to be obsessed…

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