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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…

MTN Swaziland partners with Ericsson to offer Ericsson Converged Wallet

In a new step forward for mobile money, Ericson, the Swedish multinational provider of communication technology and services, has announced that MTN Swaziland has…

SA school kids lobby for free Wikipedia

A group of South African learners are lobbying operators in that country to provide them with free access to Wikipedia. The open source encyclopedia…

Meet Mehr, Iran’s alternative to ‘inappropriate’ YouTube

Iran is launching Mehr (meaning “affection”), an alternative to YouTube which the theocracy declared “inappropriate” in 2009. The site is meant to attract Persian-speaking…

Instagram officially kills Twitter photo integration

The divorce is final. As of today Instagram has officially killed off photo integration with Twitter. Last week users began noticing that Instagram photos…

South Korea volunteers wage all out war…on porn

In South Korea, a volunteer army is fighting what may be the most futile war imaginable. All they’re armed with is their computers and…

Google doodle pays tribute to original geek Ada Lovelace

Today’s Google Doodle pays tribute to an OG, original geek that is. Ada Lovelace was the daughter of poet Lord Byron, but was also…

WAYN: social travel platform partners with India media group in multi-million dollar deal

Travel and lifestyle social media platform WAYN (Where are you now), has announced a multi-million dollar deal with India Today Group (ITG), a large…

Google scraps free Apps, changes focus to subscriptions

If your business uses Google Apps, listen up. The internet giant will no longer be offering a free version of the service as it…

Archbishop Tutu petitions online for Nobel Peace Prize winner’s freedom

Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu is campaigning for the release of fellow laureate Liu Xiaobo, who is currently under arrest by the…

Meet the new YouTube: cleaner, original channels front and centre

You may notice something a little bit different when you go on to YouTube for your daily dose of cat videos today. The world’s…

SA broadband doubles in two years as mobile data costs plummet

In any emerging market country, getting people online is vital. Studies by the likes of Ericsson have concluded that for every 10 percentage point…

John McAfee found, arrested by Guatemala police

Anti-virus software pioneer and murder suspect John McAfee has been brought to book in Guatemala after weeks on the run from police in Belize….

A messy divorce: no more Twitter cards for Instagram photos

The split between Twitter and Instagram just got uglier. The photo-sharing service has disabled the ability for the social network to properly share photos…

Facebook unveils top 25 games of 2012, Zynga’s slide continues

Facebook has announced its 25 top rated games for 2012 and Zynga which you would once have expected to dominate such a list doesn’t…

Wii U gets a Google Maps injection, bonus dose of Panorama View

Google Maps has now been incorporated in a downloadable app for the Wii U that will be available from January 2013. Combining the Wii…

BlackBerry set to launch BBM Money app in Indonesia

Indonesia is a seriously important market for BlackBerry. Although it no longer holds the top OS spot the Canadian manufacturer still owns the handset…

Child friendly content now available on Kindle

Back in September Kindle released FreeTime, a service that keeps your kids in a safe zone for content like movies and games. Now the…

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