In the spirit of keeping up to date with the length of time we humans have before our robotic overlords take over, here’s a watch list for companies at the forefront of robotic innovation. As they say, keep your friends close and your impending robotic overlords closer.
The guys over at CableKiosk.co.za are some of our neighbours over here at the Woodstock Exchange. Naturally, we were thrilled when they told us that they are now accepting payment in Bitcoin. Asked why they made the move toward Bitcoin, the team advised that they’re simply massive fans of open source systems. Fair play. Check […]
Sitting at the tip of Africa has its drawbacks when you are desperate to watch Game of Thrones. That goes for most series. We are stuck with paying exorbitant fees for satellite TV that only has a couple of watchable channels anyway. So what else is there to do, other than pirating Game of Thrones ASAP using torrents?
Tracking the ages of people who achieve a moment of epiphany in their work, a study has found that the moments of a genius breakthrough tend to happen in your mid to late 30’s. Check it out..
‘Don’t feed the trolls’ has become a valuable lesson for anyone who has frequented an online comment section. Be it online gaming or social media, trolls plague the internet denizens on every front. But there is some comfort to be found in a recent study done by the University of Manitoba titled ‘Trolls just want to have fun.’
The dawn of Bluetooth 4.0 has heralded an explosion of consumer gadgets, including personal bluetooth trackers. They purport to save you from ever losing anything again, but are they really all that? We find out.
It was thought to be lost, buried somewhere beneath Aspen, Colorado. Back in 1983 Steve Jobs gave a talk at the Aspen International Design Conference. After the conference, those present each donated an object to be added to a time capsule. Steve Jobs’s contribution – one of the first commercially available computer mice.
Gone are the days of driving around endlessly looking for an open parking spot. This site shows, in real-time, the available parking bays in Stellenbosch and a couple of other cities and neighbourhoods in South Africa.
Missed the brouhaha over Flappy Bird? Don’t sweat it, cute stuff. Catch up on the complete narrative with this infographic. Do it before the after work beers, and you just might end up making a valuable contribution to the conversation for once.
We don’t know if we would go as far as comparing a rock legend with a pixelated bird on a smartphone, but columnist Leigh Alexander from the Daily Beast tends to think so. It’s not like Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen took a shotgun to everyone’s phone after he decided to end it all.
Rumours have been floating around the web of late regarding the iPhone 6. Apple keep their new projects under tight secrecy but someone, perhaps a disgruntled employee, always slips out a pic or two under Apple’s radar. These leaked images are of the iPhone 6, claims blogger Sonny Dickson.
A few days ago the world was deprived of its access to what had become the crack-heroin of phone app games, Flappy Bird. Its mysterious taking down by its creator Dong Nguyen, had everyone questioning the reason behind it all. Nguyen sat down for his first interview after killing Flappy Bird with a reporter from Forbes. Here’s what the bird killer had to say.
If you’ve ever felt the pain of buying an overly expensive university text book, or found yourself perplexed by the cost of a novel that you’re not sure you like yet, Paperight is a God-send. A proudly South African business, Paperight makes a digital library of books available to copy shops, who can print those […]
Paying for fake likes on Facebook will give you notoriously poor returns, but even using legitimate means to generate likes through Facebook advertising will now result in failure. This is according to Derek Muller, who has 131 000 likes on his Facebook page. Muller now longs for the days when he had only a couple of thousand page likes.
The 2014 Design Indaba Music Circuit is a rollercoaster ride of 38 acts in 10 venues over wo days in one city. It’s about experiences, collaborations, having fun and giving a platform to fresh local talent, and you’d be a damned fool not to get involved. Take a look at who’ll be performing, and where. The […]
Many of us use Google services each day but very few of us ask the question, “How BIG is Google?” Obviously this question cannot be answered directly, however, the sheer size of Google can be realised by the hard facts and figures shown in this short film.
If you’re into mobile gaming or tech at all, you’ve probably heard of Flappy Bird – the mobile game that has recently taken the world by storm. However, just as quickly as the app rose to fame, it came crashing down last night as it’s developer pulled it from the App Store and Google Play.
Steve Wozniak has always had wacky ideas when the rest of the world looks mute and dull. He created the personal computer as a kid when experts said it can’t be done, remember? Although he isn’t an active member of the Apple engineering family anymore, he still has lots to say about his beloved Cupertino.
The cell phone market in South Africa is a strange beast, and even more so the smartphone market. Yes, there are many types of phones being sold – different form factors, different price points, and different manufacturers – but what people see most of the time is only what the large telecoms companies advertise to you.
If you happen to see someone in Apple’s Grand Central store pick up an Apple product and walkout the store without ever talking to a salesperson or paying at the checkout counter, please don’t tackle them. It isn’t a case of daylight robbery – they may have used Apple’s iBeacon.
For the first time scientists were able to restore real-time sensory feeling in an amputee wearing a robotic hand. Bionic hands my not be at the skull-crushing level where would like them to be, but being able to feel our victim may be a step in the right direction.
That’s right, kiddo. Cape Town has a glut of new free wifi zones, and you probably don’t even know where they are. But you will in three minutes and 10 seconds. Catch Tech Report every Thursday evening at 21h30 on eNCA Africa DSTV channel 403. Check out their YouTube channel, here. Follow them on Twitter, here. Like them […]
North Korea’s very own operating system, Red Star OS, has an interface that looks uncannily like Apple’s Mac OSX. Red Star OS will have Mac users feeling right at home. As long as home is always North Korea.
A skills audit report done by PricewaterhouseCoopers may have SABC executives and staff member’s looking for new jobs. But after the report showed that “60% of executive and senior managers do not meet the minimum required level of strategic thinking skills for executives,” they may as well start applying at McDonalds.
The number of views a video gets are seen as a numerical indicator of its popularity and are used by advertisers to select when and where to place their to place its advertisement. That’s why YouTube is clamping down on artificially inflated view counts.
And if it wasn’t enough to get through a day without your phone bombarding you, every chance it gets with non-stop notifications! Now Apple plans to make your phone tell you how fat and lazy you are under the guise of tracking your fitness.
An app called Leafly will help you find the best strains of mary jane out there. Sure to help you tell the difference between Sour Diesel and Pineapple Express.
Apple celebrated the Macintosh computer’s 30th anniversary with the release of this video. The video is a compilation of footage shot during the span of one day across five continents in ten different countries, highlighting the Mac’s use in design, robotics, education and engineering. And the whole thing was shot on iPhones. Mental.
Selfies, cat photos, instagrammed lunches… They make you feel so happy, and you absolutely cannot live without them. But surely you don’t have space for ALL of those photos on your phone? This is how you save space on your mobile’s hard drive.
The movie ‘Love Child’ tells the story of a South Korean couple who let their child to starve to death in September 2009 after neglecting her to play the online role-playing game “Prius Online”.