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Sony Pictures cancels ‘The Interview’ release following hacker threats

Following threats by Guardians of Peace, the group that hacked Sony Pictures, the entertainment studio has now decided to cancel The Interview. The company…

Twitter and Foursquare are partnering to improve location in tweets

Twitter and Foursquare are planning to partner together in 2015 to power location in tweets. In fact, the geo-location feature could be introduced as…

Apple halts online sales in Russia over ruble fluctuations

Apple has halted online sales on all off its products in Russia due to fluctuations in that country’s currency. This is one of the…

James Bond’s ‘Spectre’ movie plot notes leaked by hacker group

Following the cyber attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November where five unreleased movies along with sensitive documents were made public, the drafts of…

These are 2014’s most popular apps, games and movies on Google Play

If you have Candy Crush along with Duolingo, Facebook and MyFitnessPal on your phone, you’re probably one of the most average Android users of…

Weekly Roundup #9: Ralph Baer, Dragons’ Den prodigy, Instagram, Volvo’s hybrid and Art of the brick

In our ninth edition of Weekly Roundup the Burn Media squad chats about all things startup prodigies, sexy hybrid vehicles and all so many…

19 snaps of incredible LEGO designs at the Art of the Brick Cape Town

It took 4 188 hours and more than 1 million colourful LEGO bricks to build the 78 pieces of LEGO art displayed at the…

New emails from Wikileaks suggest Google, Salesforce were offered ‘TrapWire’ spy tool

Time was, a story about governments and big corporations using scary spy technology would’ve been easy to write off as the rantings of a…

Google mobile search: now smarter and more interactive

Google just made searching on mobile even better. The search giant has announced a host of new features to make Googling on your cellphone…

News24 down, ‘technical difficulties’ blamed [Update]

Africa’s largest online news portal News 24 is down. Anyone trying to enter the site receives a standard browser message stating that the site…

WordPress claims ‘biggest update ever’ with new iOS version

Expect to see people blogging a lot more from their iDevices in the near future. WordPress today rolled out a new version of its…

Battle.net hack: passwords and emails stolen, financial info safe

Ahem. If you play World of Warcraft, Diablo, or Starcraft you might want to mosey over to Battle.net around now and change your password….

Samsung: the Galaxy SI could’ve been better… if it was more like the iPhone

A fair few skeletons have emerged from the latest trial between Samsung and Apple. One of the most rattling revelations to date shows that…

Could a sunflower be key to the Apple, Samsung patent trial?

It’s an incredibly simple, but evocative image. It’s a yellow sunflower with green leaves and it’s the icon for Apple’s Photos App. The image…

Facebook introduces mobile ads for developers

Things might have just got a little easier for mobile app developers on Facebook. The social network announced that it will now let them…

Procrastinate with today’s basketball-themed Olympic Google doodle

Another fantastic time-wasting Olympic-themed doodle? Aww Google, you shouldn’t have. After the search giant made up for all those static Olympic doodles by launching…

China’s Sohu: losing the microblog battle, but planning a comeback

If you know anything about the Chinese social media space it’s probably that Tencent and Sina rule the microblogging space. If things had turned…

Amazon’s social game studio has Zynga in its crosshairs

Things could be about to get a lot hairier for Zynga. The game studio is about to face competition from Amazon, after the web…

Baidu sacks employees who deleted forum posts for cash: 3 arrested

Three now former employees of Chinese search giant Baidu have been arrested for accepting bribes to delete posts from the company’s TieBa forum service….

Kindle ebook downloads now outnumber printed book sales in the UK

The day has come. The masses who have switched from paper to an E Ink display are starting to influence Amazon’s sales so significantly…

First photos from Mars Curiosity Rover reach Earth

Take a moment to reflect on what I’m about to tell you. Just 30 minutes after it landed, the Mars Curiosity Rover sent back…

Last.fm’s new image-heavy and responsive redesign

It seems Digg isn’t the only platform from the early days of the web that decided to add a fresh coat of paint; Last.fm…

GustPay dreams of zero queues at festivals with NFC wristband trial

GustPay, the South African geo-fenced mobile payments startup that recently moved into beta, held a launch party last week and introduced about 400 of…

High End Devices Unlock Superior Mobile Experiences in South Africa

South Africa Sees 77% Surge in Demand for AI Skills

Samsung Launches the Galaxy A07 Built for Every Challenge

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

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

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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