The Roost

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on Aug. 30, 2026, beginning a journey that will take it about a million miles from the Earth. Once there, Roman will study some of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, from dark energy to the formation of galaxies. It will also search for planets around other stars, called

Puma has a new set of running shoes for serious pavement pounders launching on 28 October. The Fast-RB Nitro Elite 2 is due to drop globally from the sportswear brand, but unless you’re comfortable paying around R7,000 for a pair, you’re probably not serious enough. That price estimate is based on the price drop locally

Apple today unleashed its first-ever foldable, the iPhone Duo, and charges up to R77,000 for the privilege. Somehow, in amongst those thousands of Rands, the Duo never quite managed to squeeze in Face ID. Instead, Apple got the early adopters of the first-generation foldable to switch back to Touch ID for the time being. iPhone

There’s always another way to make money. We just never saw mining Bitcoin using your home’s geyser (the Yanks call it a water heater) as a viable option. And yet, that’s just what a product called Heatbit promises to do. Whether it’ll actually work is something we’d have to see to believe. The cost of

The world really doesn’t need more vibe-coded AI slop games. It’s nothing more than a waste of compute while users wait for something hand-crafted, with love and attention heaped upon it. Epic Games disagrees. The Fortnite-maker is hosting a competition to see who can make the best AI-crafted game, with a $50,000 prize. It’s tempting.

Huawei may have been paying attention to our review of the Pura 90s Pro (and others). While the phone itself is well worth your money, it was missing one component the Pura 80 Pro had: a 1in camera sensor. Rumours from China now reckon that Huawei will correct that oversight. Information leaked by Digital Chat Station on

YouTube users (so… everyone with an internet connection) have begged the platform for years to give them more control over their home feeds. Users have been at the mercy of the algorithm since the beginning, but YouTube’s latest change is looking to change that. Kinda. The platform is rolling out Custom Feeds, but it’ll require

SpaceX has explained how it intends to catch the upper stage of its Starship rocket. The catch method isn’t new — the company first executed it with Starship’s booster. Doing the same thing with the top half after it has made it to orbit is something else entirely. The space company decided to share its

Devices that link human minds to computers are progressing rapidly. Already, these brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are allowing patients with severe paralysis to communicate, use digital devices or control smart homes with their brains. Trials are also exploring whether they could help restore patients’ speech or control robotic machinery. One British patient with a spinal injury

Is it just us, or does Black Friday seem to be coming earlier and earlier every year? Not wanting to miss out on all the spending, Amazon’s ‘Early Black Friday’ sale started yesterday and runs until 31 October. There are a dizzying number of deals and special offers, way too many to list them all.