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Microsoft Expected To Launch Tablet “To Compete With iPad”
18 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Microsoft might be about to launch a tablet device it would hope would compete with the Apple iPad. Its new Windows software, to be launched later this year, is designed to be used on a tablet as well as a desktop PC. It also said: “This will be a major Microsoft announcement – you will not want to miss it.”
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China To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days
18 Jun 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
Broad Sustainable Building, a Chinese construction company, is aiming to assemble an 838m-tall building in Changsha, a city in southern China, beating the Burj Khalifa in Dubai by 10 metres. What’s more, they’re looking to build the thing – dubbed SkyCity One – in 90 days because, well, why not.
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Canada Health Official: Pure Ecstasy Okay
15 Jun 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
Glow sticks burned brightly all over Canada yesterday as optimistic ravers partied at the thought of being able to pick up doses of MDMA at their local government run ecstasy shops. Dr Perry Kendall said that pure MDMA is “safe” when consumed responsibly by adults.
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A Skype Call In Ethiopia Now Carries A 15 Year Jail Term
15 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 1 Comment
Things have been less than fun with respect to freedom of speech and freedom of expression in the landlocked central African country of Ethiopia in recent years. And they just got worse. Because now a simple 30-second Skype call could land you in jail.
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Brakpan Couple And Their Pet Tiger Make International Headlines [PICS]
15 Jun 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 2 Comments
Michael Jamison hails from Brakpan and has a girlfriend named Jackie. He also has a 200kg pet tiger named Enzo. They all get along pretty great. Check out this photo gallery of the threesome that appeared in Britain’s most prestigious newspaper yesterday, The Daily Mail.
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Facebook Wants Your Phone Number, “For Your Own Safety”
15 Jun 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
Within the next few days, every single Facebook user will be met with a request for a verified phone number, which will apparently help users “stay in control” of their accounts. This is partially a response to security breaches at LinkedIn, Last.fm and eHarmony, but it’s also because Facebook wants to know more stuff about you.
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Former T20 Billionaire Allen Stanford Sentenced To 110 Years In Prison
15 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 1 Comment
Former T20 cricket enigma and ex-multi billionaire, Allen Stanford, has been sentenced to 110 years in jail for defrauding investors of $7 billion. Stanford was also ordered to pay back $5,9 billion, which he doesn’t have, because he lost everything.
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Protester Attempts To Arrest Tony Blair In Hong Kong [VIDEO]
15 Jun 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
After being branded a war criminal at the Leveson Inquiry last month, a member of the public attempted a citizens arrest on Tony Blair yesterday! The former prime minister was about to start a speech on faith and globalisation at Hong Kong University, when the incident took place. Check out video footage after the jump!
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Skype To Introduce Advertising To Distract You During Calls
15 Jun 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
Skype have just introduced a new ‘feature’ called Conversation Ads, which displays advertisements during audio calls. Which sucks. To nobody’s surprise they’re trying to spin the feature as somehow good for users – apparently the ads “could spark additional topics of conversation that are relevant to Skype users and highlight unique and local brand experiences.”
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RADVERTISING: Coca-Cola’s Awesome New Ad Restores Faith In Humanity [VIDEO]
14 Jun 2012 by Albi P / 4 Comments
Every day, around the world, security cameras silently observe us. Tirelessly they wait and watch, hoping to capture something significant. Usually, the only footage that ever sees the light of day is the kind that implicates someone in a crime or offence, but in reality they capture so much more. Click through for a glimpse of the heart-warming side of surveillance.
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Reveal Day: The New .Com Domain Names Are Coming
14 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Yesterday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international body that regulates the Internet, released its list of applicants for new .com alternatives. There are obvious ones like .amazon and .hsbc, but less obvious ones like .ninja have also crept in. A few South African companies also got involved.
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George Bush’s Severed Head Was On Game Of Thrones
14 Jun 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
So there was this scene towards the end of the first season of Game of Thrones – that popular, high budget, swords/sorcery/nudity show that HBO’s running – where a bunch of heads were lined up on spikes. And director’s commentary from the recently-released Season 1 DVD has revealed that one of the heads belonged to ex-president George Bush.
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German Delegation to Britain Greeted By Villagers In Nazi Uniforms
14 Jun 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
The idea of not mentioning the war was lost on a bunch of Poms in Haworth, a small village near Bradford in West Yorkshire, who were seen wearing Nazi SS costumes as a delegation of German visitors arrived on a visit to their British twin town.
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NASA’s Amazing New Robotic Aerogarden Is How We’ll Survive Off-Planet
14 Jun 2012 by Albi P / No Comments
Deep space travel is creeping ever closer to becoming a reality and one of the biggest challenges faced, apart from actually getting astronauts to their destination, is providing a constant supply of fresh food, water and air. An ambitious project by students at the University of Colorado and Colorado State University looks take of all of these with one foul swoop.
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WBO To Review Bradley Win Over Pacquiao
14 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
The World Boxing Organization has decided it will review Timothy Bradley’s shock split-decision victory over Manny Pacquiao at the weekend. The decision caused outrage among observers who thought the legendary Filipino won the bout without question. Pacquio even said in an interview, “we know in our hearts.”
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Toddler Flung From Car Survives Uninjured [VIDEO]
14 Jun 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 1 Comment
This is just insane! Police in Texas have released this video of an 18-month-old girl being flung from a getaway car during a high-speed chase. Luckily she escapes unharmed, stands up, and runs after the vehicle through the broken glass and metal scraps.
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Check Out This Insane Footage Of Jackass: India’s Got Talent Style!
13 Jun 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
A group of Indians are looking to give the crew from Jackass a run for their money. And they just might win seeing as their “performances” include being run over by cars, hanging each other by their heads, chewing glass tube lights and playing with swords and spiked maces. Let me guess. You’d like to see footage of this for research purposes. Step inside.
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Iran Planning Its First Nuclear Submarine
13 Jun 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
Iran said it is drawing up designs for its first nuclear powered submarine, which if it gets built, would make it the first not nuclear armed nation to put the technology to front line military use.
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Iran’s Oil Exports Plummet 40%
13 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Western sanctions against Iran’s oil exports have shown that they have fallen by an estimated 40 per cent since the start of the year, according to the International Energy Agency. Separately, the UAE is nearing completion of an oil route that totally avoids Iran. Unlucky, Iran.
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New Hilarious “Yes Men” Viral Campaign Owns Shell [FULL GALLERY & VIDEO]
13 Jun 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
Greenpeace recently teamed up with activist pranksters, The Yes Men. Their goal? To rip Shell a new one over their planned Arctic oil drilling. Step inside, and watch a great (and hilarious) example of how social media and activism have become inseparable.
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Sweden’s Twitter Experiment Gets A Little Anti-Semitic
13 Jun 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
Sweden has been handing its Twitter account to a different citizen every week for the past seven months. Which has been great for the most part, with priests and lesbian truck drivers representing the country – except the latest @sweden handler has been catching some flack for trying to figure out “whats the fuzz with jews.”
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Brutal Clashes Between Russian And Polish Euro 2012 Fans In Warsaw [VIDEO]
13 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 2 Comments
Chaos erupted in Warsaw yesterday when Russian and Polish fans fought running battles in the streets before and after a Euro 2012 soccer match. At least 11 people were injured in the clashes. Eight of those hurt, including a policeman, are Poles, two are Russian, and one is German. The game ended 1-1. See the [...]
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Yahoo Forms Content Partnership With CNBC
13 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Yahoo has been criticised in the past for neglecting its original core business of being a search engine, and it may experience more of that with its latest exapnsion into content publishing. However, it has described its latest partnership with CNBC as a key strategy to becoming a “premium media network.”
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Sir John Major – “Rupert Murdoch Pressured Me Over Europe”
12 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Sir John Major has been giving testimony at the Leveson inquiry into British press ethics today. Some of his testimony appears to directly conflict that of Murdoch’s, who in April claimed: “I have never asked a prime minister for anything.” Major becomes the first ex-Prime Minister to claim Murdoch tried to get him to change government policy.
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