Google’s next undersea internet cable will link Africa and Europe

Google has announced its third private undersea internet cable will run between Europe and Africa. One end will make landfall in Portgual. While you might expect the cable would connect to Morocco, it'll run all the way down the African coast to Sout...

Microsoft beats Amazon to open the first cloud data center in Africa

Microsoft has become the first major cloud provider to open a data center in South Africa. Its two new Azure facilities in Cape Town and Johannesburg have been in the works since 2017, and while they were originally slated to go live in 2018, their a...

Listening to starlight: Our ongoing search for alien intelligence

Six hours a day, seven days a week, for four straight months. That's how long radio astronomer Frank D. Drake pointed the 26-meter telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) research facility in Green Bank, West Virginia, towards th...

Charlize Theron Features in the Next Gillian Flynn Hit “Dark Places”


Gillian Flynn’s novel “Gone Girl” became the news last year. The David Fichner movie grossed major bucks ($360 million) on the box office, earned rave reviews and even earned an Oscar nomination for...

Oscar Pistorius gets his Comeuppance for killing Reeva Steenkamp


The jail sentence which Oscar Pistorius will probably be awarded is in excess of 15 years. The preliminaries to the final verdict will be taking place at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria,...

Charlize Theron looks stunning on the red carpet of Met Gala


Charlize Theron has got everything that it takes to be successful, classy and beautiful and on tiop of all this she has a perfect couple with Sean Penn and together they have never failed to show the...

Miners Trapped in South Africa Refuse Rescue out of Fears of Arrest


As many as 200 miners were trapped in a gold mine in South Africa over the weekend. The miners were working illegally in an abandoned gold mine near Johannesburg. Some of the miners were rescued from...