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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…

Lifetime Oscar Pistorius movie ‘horrifies’ Steenkamp family and South Africa

A trailer for the upcoming Lifetime film Oscar Pistorius: Blade Runner Killer has been released, and it seems neither the Steenkamps nor the Pistorius family were aware…

SA’s box office: Kingsman 2 crowned no.1

The much-anticipated Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle has unsurprisingly opened in top spot this weekend, pushing The Emoji Movie down from its one-week stint at number one. The…

Last week in trailers: Natalie Portman, Owen Wilson, and is that John Travolta?

If you were expecting an Avengers: Infinity War trailer this week, then you clearly don’t follow TrailerTrack on Twitter, which was doing its utmost to let people know…

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…

5 New Year’s resolutions some of SA’s top tweeters should adopt in 2015

It’s been an interesting year for South African Twitter. Apart from anything, there are now around 9.4-million users in the country, up from 6.8-million…

From Kardashian to Barry Roux: 10 of the web’s most popular memes of 2014

Yes, humans of the internet, pop culture has an interesting way of playing itself out in our modern age. From light topics such as…

These were BurnTV’s 8 most popular videos for 2014

On the BurnTV channel on YouTube, we unbox new products, review products, features, games, apps and give startups the chance to pitch their ideas….

Does the country you live in determine how you use your mobile? [Infographic]

It’s almost become cliche to say that we live in a mobile world. The thing about cliches though is that they often have more…

Watch Lion’s Head ablaze in this beautiful but haunting timelapse [Video]

Although we love to braai as a nation, as a city, Cape Town simply loathes fires. Since the dramatic blaze of 2006 that came…

This stunning short film imagines what’ll happen once we conquer the solar system

Whatever points the naysayers may put forward, the idea of humans exploring space — and not just remote-controlled vehicles — is one which we…

There’s a Lego version of the new Star Wars trailer, because of course there is

Well that didn’t take long. Just a day after the launch of the new Star Wars trailer, the world was exposed to a Lego…

Two SA comedians car guard in the US to buy iPhone and Xbox [video]

There is no doubt that we all love tech gadgets. True enthusiasts might even tell you that you need them. All the same, tech…

A GoPro captures a lamb chop’s ascent to space [Video]

The GoPro has shot some amazing things but not in its developers’ wildest dreams did it ever imagine this trip. A marketing team looking…

Acer’s New Nitro AI Gaming Gear Is Here—But Is It Worth It for South Africans?

R19,000 for Bass? Sony Tests South Africa’s Audio Appetite

Tech Stocks Tank – Can SA Survive a Global Meltdown?

SA Business Confidence: Fintech Lula Sounds Alarm on SME Reality

Why MVNOs are gaining ground — and how Huge NXTGN is accelerating the shift

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

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV

L2 charging and the power of dwell time

Tires and tariffs