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Twitter introduces special Tour de France emoji

The Tour de France, cycling’s most grueling road race, gets underway on Saturday kicking off two weeks of breakaways, crashes, grueling mountain climbs, and…

Uber petitions City of Cape Town to stop hassling its drivers [Update]

Car hailing service Uber is petitioning the City of Cape Town to allow its drivers to operate freely across the city. The plea comes…

Google brings My Maps to Google Drive

Today, Google Drive is even getting better. Google announced that My Maps is coming to Google Drive. My Maps, though not hugely popular with…

Google’s image recognition tool lands it in hot water

Google engineers have had to scramble to fix a flaw in its recently released Photos app, which saw black people labeled as gorillas. The…

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…

Facebook hopes to implement AI services ‘within next 10 years’

Facebook and Artificial Intelligence (AI) sounds very creepy yet exciting sitting in the same sentence, but that’s exactly where the world’s largest social network…

This London shoe shop worker wants to crowdfund Greece’s financial bailout

We’ve seen crowdfunding used to bring together the required cash for albums, movies, and even museums but could it be used to bail out…

Say hello to Twitter archives: users can now download and explore their tweets

It seems Twitter has decided to make sure you never lose a tweet. The microblog has introduced Twitter archive, a function that allows users…

After legal threats, the UK Pirate Party shuts down its Pirate Bay proxy

It seems that a group of music labels have achieved their objective to shut down avenues to access The Pirate Bay in the UK….

Migrating to Flickr? Freethephotos saves your pictures from Instagram

Instagram’s slightly disconcerting and perplexing new terms of use upset a fair few users yesterday, because the update could theoretically allow their images to…

Twitter now has more than 200 million active users a month

Today in a tweet, Twitter announced that it now has more than 200-million active users tweeting every month. This new number shows a rise…

Is Apple cosying up to Foursquare to help fix Maps?

Well what do you know, it seems in an effort to improve its Maps app Apple has decided to partner with Foursquare. According to…

EU aims to increase connectivity and make Europe ‘startup friendly’

The European Commission (EU) has indicated that the digital economy across European states needs to be stepped up considerably, after it said it is…

Instagram’s advertising plans and how it will share your data with Facebook

It seems the day we were waiting for has arrived: Facebook is figuring out how to monetize Instagram. When the social network dropped the…

WCIT-12 stumbles… we couldn’t be happier

In two separate reports no more than a month ago, we reported on the WCIT-12 that took place in Dubai from 3 November 2012….

Geeks petition White House to build Death Star, forces it to respond

This is either insanely cool, or just plain insane. We’re not 100% sure which. A petition asking the US presidency to “secure resources and…

IE flaw might allow people to track your mouse clicks

If those ads you get when you’re browsing creep you out a little bit and seem a little too personal then a recent discovery…

Flickr gets a little Instagrammy with latest iPhone app update

Yahoo! has just updated its Flickr app for iOS, bringing some Instagram-style filters with it. The update is a fairly major one and sees…

Did Twitter play a hand in the Pope’s new account?

The Pope joining Twitter was pretty big news, although it did have an air of inevitability about it. Getting one of the world’s preeminent…

FBI, NASA, others hit in massive hack attack

Hacktivist group GhostShell has taken credit for a massive hacking operation that affected the sites of the FBI, NASA and the Federal Reserve, Interpol…

Leaner Mxit plans to ‘double’ user base in next year amid staff retrenchments

Amid news that mobile social network was laying off nearly a third of its staff, Mxit has revealed that it plans to double its…

Olympics, hurricanes, elections: Twitter unveils its year in review

This year’s been big for Twitter. As the social network continues to grow it’s increasingly becoming the place where go to share, debate and…

How to make the best of your new Twitter profile

As you all know back in September this year Twitter brought out a new look to its users’ profile pages. The new header photo…

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Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

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