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Google introduces News Lab, a project to birth journalists on steroids

Google has announced a new project called News Lab, designed to give journalism more power. The site is a new effort by the company…

Taylor Swift takes on Apple Music, stays winning against music streaming services

Taylor Swift is on a roll. After winning a victory against Spotify, Swift’s taken on another big music streaming service in the shape of…

Medo launches a programme to empower young women in science, technology, engineering and maths

Last night, Medo hosted a discussion and presentation of its Women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) programme. The event took place in…

Sonic the Hedgehog’s Twitter account is brilliant at converting trolls into followers

By now we know that a good online presence can do a lot for a brand. It doesn’t matter if it’s two decades old…

Pornhub is crowdfunding its bid to shoot a space porno

As the Wikipedia page on the topic notes, sex in space would be difficult at best and incredibly dangerous at worst. None of that…

Weekly Round Up #25: Apple special, is Apple innovating or stealing from others?

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Andy Walker,…

Facebook takes on Pinterest’s buyable pins, expands beta test for ‘buy’ button on Shopify

Today, Facebook announced that it is inviting Shopify merchants to a beta test of its ‘buy’ feature. The feature allows users to buy things…

Twitter bids farewell to Riaan Cruywagen

The Twitter community tonight joined together in bidding a fond farewell to veteran newscaster Riaan Cruywagen. The broadcaster, who has been on South African…

Samsung Galaxy Note II sales go past 5m mark

It’s big, it’s bold and it’s not selling too badly either. Samsung’s 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II has now gone past the five-million channel sales…

Samsung says it’s not using child labour following extensive audit

Korean tech behemoth Samsung Electronics says that none of the 105 manufacturers of its products and components employ child labour. This comes after extensive…

Indonesia, Malaysia show strongest tech growth in SE Asia

Indonesia and Malaysia’s tech sectors are showing some serious growth, leading the South East Asia region along with Thailand. According to research company GfK…

Windows 8 app store hits 20k mark

The Windows 8 app store has passed the 20 000 app mark, of which 18 000 are free. No one’s quite sure when it…

Google Now gets Popular Science’s Innovation of the Year

Google Now has won Popular Science’s Innovation of the Year, putting it in the company of past winners such as the Large Hadron Collider,…

Disney’s Star Wars droid-lookalike robot plays catch, could let dads stay on couch

Whether inspired by its recent acquisition of Lucasfilm or not, Disney Research is developing a robot that can play catch, juggle and interact with…

The Woz gets his own (badass) game character

Think about Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak for a moment. He’s big, kind of cuddly and a lot more genial-looking than Steve Jobs was. Not…

HootSuite cosying up to China nicely with new Renren and language updates

Social management tool HootSuite is taking measures to entrench itself in the Chinese market, reports The Next Web. The company announced that it now…

Kenyan government plans to almost double the country’s bandwidth

Kenya’s government has announced plans to lay a fifth fibre-optic cable in the region, which is expected to practically double the country’s bandwidth capacity…

Mozilla lets you give Firefox OS a whirl from your desktop

We recently wrote about Firefox OS — Mozilla’s attempt at a mobile OS. At the demo we got, it seemed promising. Now you can…

Facebook to change its governing policies, lets you comment but not vote

Facebook is proposing updates to its governing documents and it’s asking its users to have their say. The documents explain how the social network…

The Oatmeal is being sued by a greeting card company with a similar name

Popular webcominc The Oatmeal is being sued by a greeting card company called Oatmeal Studios. Way to make yourself popular, random greeting card company….

Israeli Vice Prime Minister’s blog, email, social accounts hacked

A pro-Palestinian group calling itself the Z Company Hacking Crew (ZHC) has claimed responsibility for a widespread hack of a number of social accounts…

‘Spotify of Bollywood’ launches English-language service

Indian digital music platform Saavn, which bills itself at the “Spotify of Bollywood”, has launched an English-language service incorporating a quarter of a million…

HP admits to overpaying for Autonomy, says it misrepresented its financials

HP has admitted that it overpaid for software company Autonomy, saying that it was misled by management about the company’s finances. The purchase means…

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