The Roost

2025 was a good year for gaming (hardware, at any rate). Stuff‘s Gadget Awards winners on that particular slate are a stunning bunch, running the gauntlet from a new games console to something that would make a 1980s arcade kiddie cry with joy that such a thing exists. Of course, you didn’t have to wait

Noise traipsed into our offices one morning with its Master Buds Max over-ear headphones. Immediately, the naming convention got on our nerves. Anyone with eyes can see that these are over-ear headphones. Buds are… well, buds. Smaller, lighter, easier to squish underfoot if one falls out. These… are not buds. That was an uncharitable read

Now that Showmax is officially headed for the bins, new MultiChoice owners, Canal+, can’t afford any more missteps. Especially not one relating to its most valuable asset — sports broadcasting. SuperSport has long been one of the few providers of sports content in SA, available through DStv. Today, Canal+ confirmed that it held “fruitful and

Soundcore Space 2, Electric Boogaloo When it comes to affordable headphones, nobody gets a reception quite like Anker’s Soundcore spinoff — especially at Stuff. It pulled off a near miracle with the Soundcore Space One, before doing it again when the ‘Pro’ came along. We’ve eagerly awaited a sequel, and according to AnkerInsider, our time

We’ve seen Energizer phones in the past, and they’ve often talked a big game. Not quite as big as the company’s new P30K Apex, which may only require a monthly energy top-up. That puts it within range of Nokia’s battery heroes from days gone by. Only, this is supposed to be significantly more advanced. That’s

Changes to Amazon’s Prime Video service in South Africa are slow to arrive, but they generally do. The company introduced ads on its platform at the beginning of 2024. These eventually made it to South Africa, despite no official ‘Prime with ads’ tier launching. Now, the Yanks are getting some features yanked from the basic

In the past few months, a wave of tech corporations has announced significant staff cuts and attributed them to efficiency gains driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Companies such as Atlassian, Block and Amazon have announced they would lay off thousands of employees due to increased reliance on AI. The narrative these companies offer is consistent: AI is making human labour

This past Christmas, I helped my parents choose a water filter. The latest “smart” models all came with a smartphone app that promised to monitor filter life, track water quality and automatically request service. Yet my father, age 75, and mother, 67, were quick to reject them in favour of a nondigital model. “Every time

If you were hoping to find good news here, you haven’t been paying attention. Oil prices around the globe are spiking — and it’s all thanks to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. The strain put on oil reserves has had what you might call an adverse effect on South Africa’s fuel prices, with

When most people think about the internet, they likely picture websites and apps. What they rarely see are the invisible services that make those experiences possible: systems that translate names into numbers, verify who you are, deliver messages and block malicious traffic. For example, DNS, the Domain Name System, has quietly become a single point of