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Manchester United Coming Down To Play Amazulu And Ajax CT In July
31 May 2012 by Albi P / 64 Comments
Football fans ready your wallets, the world’s most popular team, Manchester United, are hopping over the pond to come play a pair of warm-up games against two local teams in July.
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The Sharks’ Beast Is Making Headlines Around The World! [VIDEO]
29 May 2012 by Albi P / 2 Comments
Sharks player Tendai Mtawarira is well-known in the rugby world as “Beast”, for obvious reasons. However, the marvelous brute is quickly earning international cult status for an immense feat of strength following a weekend clash with the Stormers. Click through for the details and amazing video.
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What Wes Anderson Thinks Of His Critics
28 May 2012 by Albi P / No Comments
Eccentric filmmaker Wes Anderson, known for his signature style made famous in movies like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic, recently spoke to the HuffPost about his latest venture, Moonrise Kingdom, the joys and pains of working with teenagers, and what he thinks about opinionated critics. Click through for details and the trailer.
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Man Survives 700m Helicopter Jump, Without Parachute [VIDEO]
24 May 2012 by Albi P / 2 Comments
Yesterday, a British man made history by becoming the first person to jump from a helicopter at 2 400ft, without a parachute, and survive.
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Stream Video Straight To Your iDevice With TiVo
23 May 2012 by Albi P / No Comments
As the number of series and TV shows we watch grows, so do the ways in which we do so. The good old days of sitting down in front of your TV to enjoy an episode Friends are steadily on their way out as we make room for the next upgrade in mobile technology – streaming recorded footage straight to your iOS device.
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Today’s Google Doodle Is Very Cool
23 May 2012 by Simon Gerber / 1 Comment
Google recently put out an ad for a full-time doodler, and it seems they may have filled that position. Today’s doodle celebrates the 78th birthday of Robert Moog, creator of the famous “moog” synthesisers, in their best tribute yet. But what sets it apart from your average doodle?
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Documentarian Impersonates ‘Wise Indian Guru’, Develops Real Following [VIDEO]
22 May 2012 by Albi P / No Comments
“So many of us look to the wisdom of the East, to solve our problems in the West.” Those are the words of filmmaker Vikram Ghandi, who set out to see how to see legitimate many of the sources of Eastern wisdom were, by impersonating a guru and then gaining a massive, legitimate following. Click through for the trailer and more details.
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Anchorman 2 Teaser Pops Up [VIDEO]
22 May 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
Marking another notch in the slow build-up to the sequel to that thing you used to like to quote, here’s the teaser trailer for Paramount’s Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. There’s no hint of story, but it reintroduces the Channel 4 News Team and offers some vague one-liners. Which I guess is what sequels are all about.
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Japan Opens World’s Tallest Tower
22 May 2012 by Matt McDonald / 1 Comment
Japan just opened its tallest tourist attraction yet, the much-anticipated 634 metre tall Skytree tower in Tokyo. It took four years to build, cost 65 million Yen to make, is about twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, just beats out the 600m tall Canton Tower in China, and even survived the devastating earthquakes that rocked Japan about a year ago, barely denting its construction schedule.
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Anonymous Hacks U.S. Department of Justice
22 May 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
Oh hey, that V-for-Vendetta-themed hacker collective is back, this time with a 1,7 GB lump of data that they claim “used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics.” The file was uploaded to the Pirate Bay yesterday, and allegedly contains “internal emails, and the entire database dump.”
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Chicago Police Mow Down “Occupy” Protesters With A Van [VIDEO]
21 May 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
So there was a NATO summit ongoing in Chicago over the weekend – which naturally attracts a couple of protest groups, members from the “Occupy” movement among them. It also attracted police and Homeland Security, who proceeded to handcuff protesters, detain them at gunpoint, and ram into a crowd of them with a van.
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Assange Stands “Real Chance” Of Election In Australia
21 May 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
Because apparently having your own talk show for starting a thing on the internet isn’t enough, recent polling of Australia’s Labor Party suggests that the Wikileaks founder is reasonably likely to get elected to the Australian senate, should he choose to go ahead with plans to run.
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Heineken Star Final 2012 – A Beautiful Vibe For A Beautiful Game
21 May 2012 by Harry Haddon / 4 Comments
Over 150 competition winners representing 22 countries arrived in Cape Town over the weekend to experience the Heineken Star Final. The Star Final is a competition held annually, where winners are flown off to watch the Champions League Final in an awesome city. Previous cities have included Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro. Cape Town [...]
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Iran Is Threatening To Sue Google Inc.
18 May 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
I know, today was supposed to be Facebook’s special moment, but when a sovereign state threatens to sue a corporation like Google, it’s sort of a thing. Especially when a sovereign state sues a corporation because of a disagreement over how a map should be labelled. Seriously.
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Google Knowledge Graph: What You Need To Know
17 May 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
So Google’s trying to change things, again. For those of you who decide that this is the last straw and that you’re going Bing, farewell and good luck finding anything. For those of you wanting to find out what exactly Knowledge Graph is and why it isn’t as terrible as G+, click on through.
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Paralysed Woman Controls Prosthesis, With Her Mind
17 May 2012 by Albi P / No Comments
Science! Technology! In a worldwide medical first, researchers have successfully implanted a computer-mind interface into the motor cortex of a 58-year-old, quadriplegic woman which allowed her to control a robotic limb using only the power of her mind. The future is now.
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Guinness Turns Submarine Into Underwater Bar [PICS]
17 May 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
Branding! It’s good for you. Jump Studios, a London-based architecture firm, recently finished up the interior on a submarine for Guinness’ deep-sea bar, which plunged to the depths of the Baltic on its maiden voyage. The sub was commissioned to celebrate Guinness’ 250th anniversary. Take a look at the thing after the jump.
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Cell C Drops Prepaid Prices To 99c
16 May 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 4 Comments
It looks like new Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig just made his first big move. The company has just announced that it will slash prepaid call rates by more than 34% with a plan called “99 Cents for Real”. More details inside.
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NASA Planning Manned Asteroid Mission
16 May 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
NASA will start training a team astronauts to land on an asteroid in the next month, in preparation for a mission that will take humans farther from Earth than ever before. They’ll be collecting mineral samples and determining how to destroy an asteroid in the event that it might collide with the Earth. Seriously.
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The Best Cover Of “Sexy And I Know It” You’ll Ever Hear [VIDEO]
16 May 2012 by Albi P / 3 Comments
Redfoo: “I’m sexy and I know it.” There, it’s done. Whether you’re a fan of the song or not, LMFAO’s chart-topping hit is now on infinite repeat in your head. It’s one of those typical, infectious beats that seems to worm its way into your mind, even after just reading the title. Well, YouTube sensation “Noah” is about to change that, for the better. Click through for his awesome cover.
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Butlers Pizza Delivery To Clifton Trawler Makes International Headlines
16 May 2012 by silverstreak / 5 Comments
Yesterday, 2oceansvibe enlisted the brave men of Butlers in a diplomatic and humanitarian mission: the delivery of hot pizza to the stricken crew and salvage officers of the Eihatsu Maru trawler, currently beached on Clifton 1st. The captain’s dog got a bone. In case you haven’t caught the video and pictures of the successful mission [...]
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South Africa Sending Huge Delegation To Cannes
16 May 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
The 65th Cannes Film Festival officially begins today, and the South African delegation is making a pretty strong showing there. They’ve got 130 South African filmmakers attending, the largest SA delegation ever to go to Cannes, showcasing 12 feature films and eight documentaries – including Otelo Burning, by the guys who did Surfing Soweto.
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Banksy’s Latest Piece Spotted In London
15 May 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
Because nothing happens in Merrie England without Banksy offering some sort of comment on it, a new piece has been spotted near Poundland showing a child laborer at work sewing Union Jacks. Apparently this has something to do with Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. Take a look! It’ll be a postcard soon.
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They’re Going To Have A Freddie Mercury Hologram, Too
15 May 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
When Queen’s drummer, Roger Taylor, was asked if he’d want a hologram Freddie Mercury a la Tupac – he declined, saying “I don’t want to appear with a hologram of my dear friend.” Which is unfortunately ambiguous wording, because they’ve decided to conjure up a Mercury hologram at tonight’s 10th anniversary We Will Rock You musical.
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Facebook To Start Rolling Out Paid Features
14 May 2012 by liam kruger / 2 Comments
Facebook lately been experimenting with a small group of users by offering them the opportunity to promote their own status messages by paying for them. If the “Highlight” feature is more widely adopted, people will soon be able to pay to make sure their cutesy status updates are at the top of everyone’s news feed.
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Billion-Dollar Ghost Town Being Built For Science
14 May 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
Hey there, science fiction. Defence contractor, Pegasus Global Holdings is building a replica of Rock Hill, a South Carolina city, in the middle of the New Mexico desert as a testing ground for futuristic infrastructures – self-driving cars, green buildings and next-generation Wi-Fi. It’ll be an uninhabited laboratory – they’re calling it “an amusement park for scientists.”
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Argentina Approves World’s Most Progressive Transgender Bill Of Rights
11 May 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
Suddenly Obama’s declaration that people of the same sex should be allowed to marry seems a little stale. Argentina has just approved a gender rights bill that will allow all adult citizens to change their legal sex at will — without undergoing surgery or hormone replacement therapy.
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The Floating Tech Start Up Haven Is Becoming A Reality
10 May 2012 by liam kruger / 2 Comments
Venture capitalist, Peter Theil’s dream of an artificial island utopia for tech start-ups is inching closer to reality off the coast of San Francisco. Riding a wave of investment capital from Thiel, the project has a name – “Blueseed” – and a website, as well as a lengthy lineup of tech companies that want to get on board.
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SONY Reports Record Annual Loss of $5,7 Billion
10 May 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
SONY Corporation has declared an annual loss of 457 billion yen ($5,7 billion) in 2011, its fourth straight year of hemorrhaging money, and the worst in its 66-year corporate history. In spite of which, the company – which appointed a new president, Kazuo Hirai last month – is predicting return to profit by the end of 2012.
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Twitter Rejects Subpoena For User Data
09 May 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
In a slightly surprising move, given the extent to which Google and Facebook have been compliant in handing data over to government enquiry, Twitter filed a motion (PDF) yesterday to block a subpoena that would force the company to turn over the data of one of its users, an arrested Occupy Wall Street protestor.
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