‘Electric vehicles may be a bit soulless, but they’re wonderful mechanisms: fast, quiet and, until recently, very cheap to run. But when you start to drill into the facts, electric motoring doesn’t seem to be quite the environmental panacea it is claimed to be.’
This woman pictured is supposed to be what South Africans perceive as the most beautiful woman and I am gonna straight-up call bullsh*t on that.
According to the study, humidity could be a source of clean, pollution-free energy, and with a device the size of a fridge you can produce the equivalent of 1 kilowatt of energy, which is twice the generation capacity of Eskom at present and sufficient to power a modest home.
In what many have called a miracle, the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who died at the age of 95, appears to show no signs of decay after her body was exhumed.
A plummeting green light burned through the sky over Australia on Saturday with such a brilliant flash that it could be seen for miles.
‘King of Clones’ lifts the lid on the controversial South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk who tried to clone humans.
This guy might have gotten his rocks off on the space rocks, but the Hollywood-like crime caper came to an end when he eventually got caught by the FBI.
On a cold and rainy day in Cape Town, it might warm your bones a bit to know that there are far worse places to work, like Antarctica’s sub-zero madness.
The progress of “superintelligent” AIs has been so immense that even the leaders of OpenAI are alarmed, which is when you know the revolution has all the potential to pivot into a full apocalypse.
Imagine seeing one of these birds floating over Parow as it comes in for a landing at Cape Town International Airport. The future is here people.
In 1997, researchers decided it would be interesting to investigate three zombies, each of whom had been recognised by locals as long-deceased individuals returning from the dead.
Something is fishy about how the guy who launched ChatGPT is the same guy who is trying to find the way for universal basic income via iris scanning.
Remote-controlled submersibles took 700,000 images from every angle during a 200-hour mission, and these images have now been stitched together to create the most detailed images of the wreck to date.
Man, it’s a wonderful world when you go wireless.
A new video showcasing the prototypes has been quite impressive actually, suggesting that this sideshow could potentially become a real product soon enough.
The Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii under a blanket of hot ash in 79 AD has always held a morbid fascination for historians.
It’s believed the tremors were caused by ”acoustic pressure waves from an unknown source in the atmosphere”.
We’re searching for the light wherever we can.
A new study claims that supersonic flights could become a reality within the next 10 years, with jet-setters being able to fly from the UK to Australia in just two hours before the decade is out.
Kids swallowing batteries will now just require a serving of side salad instead of a frantic rush to the ER.
They almost came for our pools, they should go for the yachts, and now they’re cracking down on our dishes.
Most of us will fondly recall the satisfying thumb-click of our first BlackBerry. Now it is just thought of as that thing you owned before you got an iPhone.
Can I interest you in an ‘Electric Entrepreneur’? It is an Elon Musk-esque travesty, made from a grab bag of contrasting spirits and bitters topped off by a squeeze of Red Bull.
A Cape Flats resident mocked the new tech-driven interventions saying “It’s a bloody joke, to be honest”.
That’s right, you will now be able to see a unique view of Earth in a huge balloon filled with hydrogen or helium.
Did they own a mine, or did Elon claw his way to billionaire-ness with nothing but bursaries and brains to help him? Hell, at this point it’s probably irrelevant.
The move has been condemned by more than 80 companies that said they were ‘dismayed’ by the high court approval of the law.
Things on Earth are heating up. Just the way the aliens like it.
Please do not attempt to smoke the walls, it’s not that kind of hemp.
Black holes are so massive that not even light can escape, which is how you know you’re basically nothing in comparison.