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2016 will bring an Assassin’s Creed movie

Assassin’s Creed, one of the world’s most successful gaming franchises, is set to get its own film in 2016. Produced by 20th Century Fox,…

Netflix seems to be clamping down on overseas VPN users

Using Netflix outside of its predetermined borders? Well, that might start to change very soon. If recent reports are anything to go by, the…

Mark Zuckerberg has started a book club and his first book choice is pretty much sold out

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg crowdsourced his New Year’s resolution on the social network and the post solicited plenty of suggestions. Someone suggested that he…

Xiaomi reportedly raises $1-billion in funding, company valued at $45-billion

Xiaomi, the world’s third-biggest smartphone maker, has reportedly raised US$1-billion, according to Wall Street Journal. A Xiaomi spokesperson declined to comment. Though the Xiaomi…

Google’s big push for 2015? Surveillance reform

It’s something that everyone who works in the tech space will be thinking about. What will Google be expending its energy on in 2015….

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…

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…

Microsoft ditching the name ‘Metro’ for something more commercial

Say what? Apparently Microsoft is about to ditch the name “Metro” for something more commercial reports The Next Web. It seems as the Redmond-based…

Facebook confirms that 83 million accounts could be fake

Um. Remember when Facebook said it had grown to 955-million users late last month? As it turns out, it could have around 872-million actual…

Investigative journalism gets the YouTube treatment

This is very interesting. The Centre for Investigative Reporting (CIR) has launched a YouTube channel in partnership with some of the biggest players in…

Google Wallet now supports more credit and debit cards on more phones

Unless you’ve somehow been avoiding its products, Google probably hosts your email, stores your documents, knows who you interact with (via Google+), customises your…

Olympic social media controversy hits China

When you embrace social media as much as the London Games have, you’ve got to accept that there’ll be the odd disaster here and…

Three more top Facebook execs leave

It was bound to happen. Three more top Facebook executives have left the massive social network. The latest employees to exit the company in…

Want to put your coding skills to good use? Here’s your chance

This is pretty damn cool. It’s a chance for digital activists, designers, developers and data journalists to use their tech skills for good. In…

SA airline wants you to ‘fly social’, offers free Facebook and Twitter

This is interesting. South African budget airline Mango is set to give passengers on its planes free access to Facebook and Twitter in-flight for…

Get your portrait drawn in the sand by a robot with this Google experiment

Ever wanted to take a photo with your webcam and get it sketched in sand by a robot at a museum in London? Well,…

Twitter to UK journo: sorry we ratted you out, but your suspension was valid

Twitter has issued a statement apologising for its suspension of UK journalist Guy Adams. Well sort of. The social network maintains that it followed…

Outlook.com hits 1m signups just hours after launch

Wow. Turns out people are really excited by Outlook.com. One-million people have already turned on the product that will ultimately kill hotmail just hours…

Mark Zuckerberg’s younger sister now part of the Google family

When you hear the name Zuckerberg, your brain tends to jump to the hoodied founder of Facebook. Here’s the thing though, there are, apparently…

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