Innovation

There’s some serious tech behind this African quadriplegic’s Kilimanjaro attempt

On Saturday, Chaeli Mycroft will begin her attempt to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. What makes Mycroft different to the other 21-year-olds to have…

Paper Video: can QR codes, explainer videos put South Africa’s matrics back on track?

In seven weeks’ time, South Africa’s 2015 matric class will begin writing their final examinations. The results of those examinations will, most likely, spark…

Three meals a day is the new tobacco: one geek’s guide to losing weight

The geek’s guide to rapid weight loss: 10kg in four weeks, while sitting at a desk in office hours. In summary: this is a…

Julius Akinyemi: Africa needs to harness big data to really innovate

Africa needs to start using big data to solve its issues. But before this can happen, it needs to understand how to leverage this…

Elizabeth Gould, Derrick Kotze on the need to catalyse collaboration in Africa

Memeburn recently sat down with Elizabeth Gould (pictured right), the CEO of programming academy CodeX, and Derrick Kotze who’s the CEO of African developer…

Why South Africa really needs to embrace the Maker Movement

“More so than any other time, we are able to make things that can actually make a difference,” Steve Sherman, the CEO of Living…

Creativity unlocks the power of technology

Today the bar for creativity is extremely high. It starts with people. Anyone can use the phone in their pocket to shoot and edit…

Can Intel’s new brooms really bring sweeping change?

The Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, is the company’s most important event of the year because it’s a chance for its top executives…

Vint Cerf: an open, unregulated internet is vital to our future

An open internet, uninhibited by regulation, is fundamental to its use as a tool for economic growth. That was the message from internet pioneer…

Don’t hold back the crazy ones, Hyperloop already battling haters

Elon Musk has come through on his promise and released the details of his Hyperloop which I doubt I’m alone in saying is the…

Space X’s Grasshopper can now move sideways [video]

This is probably the coolest thing SpaceX’s already very cool Grasshopper rocket has done so far. The spacecraft, which is capable of vertical takeoff…

Elon Musk to reveal more on Hyperloop today

Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and Space X will finally unveil today the revolutionary concept for high-speed travel called Hyperloop. Will publish Hyperloop…

Social sentiment can provide serious insight for big data: here’s how

As social media explodes, valuable trends are increasingly available to those able to discover them. Yet sorting out signal from noise is only getting…

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop transport system not a vacuum tunnel, here’s all we know

A simple tweet is all it took. Elon Musk, tech billionaire and founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has sent the tech world into…

Orange reveals 5-step plan for smart cities of the future

Orange, the leading French telecom operator, has just brought forward its vision of the future of smart cities and how the company plans on…

Doug Engelbart: how Silicon Valley sidelined a true genius

Tributes to the genius of computer pioneer Doug Engelbart are flooding the web following the announcement of his death at the age of 88….

Computer modeling solves ‘fairy circle’ mystery

This is pretty cool. For years circular barren patches of land, known as Fairy Circles and typically found in the grasslands of the western…

How technology has changed animation: a brief history

For many years, the use and growth of technology has facilitated animation’s development. From the early ages of the phenakistoscope disk (spindle viewer) or…

Innovation, health and wisdom in the digital age: why Cannes isn’t crap

While eating duck breast with strawberries on a bed of bulgur wheat laced with raspberry jus I decided yesterday that Cannes is not crap….

TED Global lauds SA publisher, editor Toby Shapshak

If you want to see real innovation, you should check out Africa. That’s the message Stuff South Africa publisher and editor Toby Shapshak took…

4 things your IT manager could be doing instead of managing a server room

We all recognise the stereotypical IT manager sitting behind a desk in the company dungeon, wearing a t-shirt sporting an obscure geek reference, and…

Is the Chinese government adding to social problems by stifling innovation?

From a purely mercenary point of view, one of the wonderful things about solving a problem is that there’s often a way to make…

Elon Musk: Mars is a fixer upper, electric cars are still getting a raw deal

Human beings have two choices: begin settling on other planets or face extinction. That’s the message from renaissance man cum-billionaire Elon Musk, who was…

Samsung Launches the Galaxy A07 Built for Every Challenge

Elon Musk’s Trillion Dollar Pay Deal Could Change Everything

Lenovo Tab P12 Pro Review – A Premium Android Tablet That Shines for Entertainment

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

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel