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Ever needed a brand-new pair of AirPods so desperately that you’d be willing to pay a premium to have them delivered right then and there? No? Well, Checkers is doing it anyway. Yesterday, it officially rolled out an overhaul of the Sixty60 app to millions of customers, improving general security,… Read more »

It’s just amazing that a few days before the years-long deadline to upgrade Eskom’s prepaid electricity meters, there are still 2.2 million that haven’t been updated. The consequence will be a hefty bill (I’ve heard as high as R17,000) to physically replace the now defunct meter which hasn’t been fed… Read more »

After a slight delay, WhatsApp finally looks ready to roll out the much-sought-after voice note transcription feature to everyone. The feature was initially only available to beta users, but from today onwards, everyone can get in on the transcription action. Stuff’s daily driver (running WhatsApp for Android 2.24.23.78) is yet to… Read more »

PlayStation might have you convinced that your first-gen PS5 has more than enough storage, but it’s time you learned the truth. In reality, the custom-built 825GB SSD is barely large enough to protect the latest Call of Duty from being sent to the shadow realm every time you want a new… Read more »

Earlier this year, a Hong Kong finance worker was tricked into paying US$25 million to scammers who had used deepfake technology to pretend to be the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call. Thinking the images on screen were his colleagues, the financier authorised the multi-million dollar transfer to fraudsters… Read more »

Four months after a botched security update brought an estimated 8.5 million Windows servers and PCs to their knees, Microsoft has announced the Windows Resiliency Initiative to hopefully avoid such an outage from happening again. The new initiative includes core changes to improve the reliability of Windows systems, new security… Read more »

If you make use of iCloud backups on older Apple hardware, you’ll want to pay attention. The Fruit Company has begun notifying users that iCloud backups will require iOS 9 or later from 18 December 2024. When that day rolls around, backups on devices still running iOS 5 through iOS… Read more »

rAge Expo, one of the largest geek and gaming culture events in the country, makes its annual return to Johannesburg between 29 November and 1 December 2024. The event will offer something for everyone across its three-day span. Live esports competitions will take place between the best gaming teams and… Read more »

Everyone’s favourite yellow mobile network operator recently announced MTN CloudPlay, its own local cloud gaming platform. In partnership with European mobile tech company Telecoming, MTN is offering South Africans access to a wide range of ‘console-quality’ cloud-based games that can be streamed to a smartphone, tablet, or PC. MTN CloudPlay… Read more »

Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures. In a way, this is a feature, not a bug, of generative AI. And artists are wielding this aesthetic to create a new storytelling art form. The tools, such as Midjourney to generate images, Runway and Sora to produce… Read more »