The dangers of the tweet age, BBM coming to iPhones and Androids, asteroids, rhinos and an escaped black Mamba, these are this year's top ten science and technology stories.
1: Sexwale divorce shows the power and danger of the tweet age
Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale's confirmation of his divorce showed again that the advent of social media was blurring the line between the private and the public, media commentators say.
2: BBM coming to Android, iPhone
BBM has ceased being exclusive to Blackberry.
3: Last 15 rhinos in Mozambique park betrayed by rangers, killed by poachers
Mozambique's game rangers have helped poachers kill every single rhino in the Mozambique section of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park according to the International Fund for Wildlife Management.
4: The real cost of SA’s most expensive website
The budget for South Africa’s most expensive web site yet makes for startling reading, writes Arthur Goldstuck, who pins down its cost.
5: Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake
Microsoft co-founder has admitted for the first time that using the key combination of Control-Alt-Delete to log into a PC was a mistake.
6: Asteroid will come very very very close to Earth
The celestial visitor, known as 2012 DA14, was discovered last year by a group of amateur astronomers in Spain. The asteroid is about the size of an Olympic swimming pool at 46 m in diameter and was projected to come as close as 27 520 km from Earth during its Feb. 15 approach.
7: Huge predator discovered in Utah
Palaeontologists announced that they had uncovered the remains of one of the greatest land predators ever -- a nine-metre (30-foot) four-tonne dinosaur that stalked the planet 100 million years ago.
8: Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon
An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of a 40 kg rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, Nasa scientists said.
9: What to do should you encounter the Pretoria Zoo's escaped black mamba
The Pretoria Zoo’s two-meter long black mamba had escaped from its enclosure, and the zoo staff were unable to track down the snake.
10: Six of 19 beached whales dead, some to be euthanased
Some of the pilot whales that beached at Noordhoek Beach had to be put to death, the National Sea Rescue Institute said.
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