Author: Brad Lang

How many screens are too many screens? According to Expanscape, the limit on screens is seven, which if you ask us feels excessive but also looks really cool. The prototype device, named the Aurora 7, looks like something out of a ’90s action movie starring Sylvester Stallone as some sort of time-travelling cop (you know the one). The actual body of the computer is a chunky black box with a back monitor, like any laptop, but it also features six other screens that bleed out from the back. Each one is capable of showing its own windows and programs and it…

WhatsApp hasn’t exactly been on a big winning streak this year. The Facebook-owned instant messaging app recently updated its terms and conditions that’ll require all users to share their data with Mark Zuckerberg, causing a mass exodus of users to competing apps like Signal and Telegram. Yet for those folks that stuck around, they’ll have a new update to look forward to that will… allow users to send muted videos. That doesn’t exactly seem like the feature that’s going to win everyone back but WhatsApp seems committed to bringing muted videos to the app. Following the update, you’ll now be…

Apple might cut production of the iPhone 12 Mini Despite the iPhone 12 Mini being one of the cutest (and most impressive for its size) smartphones on the market, that doesn't mean people want one. A supply chain analyst for JP Morgan, William Yang, has filed a recent investment note predicting that Apple might slash

It’s pretty wild that you spend so much money on an Apple device only to have the cable that’s meant to charge the thing fray like a cheap piece of plastic bought from the kiosk on the corner of your street. If a new patent is to be believed, Tim Cook is actually doing something about his company’s shoddy cables. The filed paperwork suggests that Apple is in the process of developing a “Cable with Variable Stiffness” which should hopefully eliminate the fraying that renders so many cables nearly unusable after a year. We can thank AppleInsider for picking up on the…

Despite Skype rising to prominence in 2020 as the go-to app for online business meetings, Skype has been there holding the hands of home workers for year now. Don’t fancy Zoom? Why not just use Skype Business Onl… oh, wait. Wait, hold on. No, actually don’t do that because Microsoft has announced that the business centric part of the its video chat platform is being taken out behind the shed and shot. In a blog post today, Microsoft announced that Skype Business was closing down for good in the next six months. The company is in the process of migrating…

Bloober Team is a development studio known for producing some of the best horror games of recent years. Yet while their atmospheric crawls through haunting environments are engaging enough, it seems like the studio is wanting to shake things up with some combat in the future. A host of new job listings for the studio hints that the team is looking to bulk up their force of folks who know how to program a pipe being swung as a weapon. The inclusion of combat in a Bloober Team would be a pretty big step for the studio. Their previous games,…

While it might be a while yet before we can actually visit and report back on the experience, fansite Universal Parks News Today dropped a whole load of videos detailing their experiences in Nintendo’s park. The videos cover everything you might have questions about and go into a staggering amount of detail showing everything off. You want to know what walking through the entrance is like? Yep, there’s a video for that embedded below. What’s on the menu? Just check that out here. The gift shop and merchandise you ask? Don’t stress, there’s a video for that too. Despite not being able to…

It’s pretty weird how the modern camera phone design has become so uniform across brands. It makes sense given that it works well; having the main sensor sitting on the back panel, most often in the upper left corner of the device with a selfie camera on the front of the phone is both ergonomic and limits how intrusive the tech is on the eye. However, Oppo isn’t pleased with just using the designs that everyone’s used to. No, it intends to shake things up with a new patent that would see their smartphones ditch the visible camera altogether as…

Facebook, in a scrambling attempt to prove that it’s numerous services are all explicitly linked and can’t be broken up due to the ongoing anti-trust investigation that would split the company, has implemented Messenger on Oculus headsets. Ah yes, the wide variety of top-of-the-range VR headsets! One of the best ways to escape the drudgery of our world and explore the virtual space! Now with the added benefit of being reminded that you have a Facebook account to really ruin any sense of fantasy and awe you might have previously experienced. Why would you want to use Facebook Messenger on…

A celebratory cheer was let loose around the Stuff offices when EA confirmed that it was properly remastering the original Mass Effect franchise last year. It’s one of our favourite games and knowing it’ll be playable on modern (console) hardware was a real treat. The project went fairly quiet in subsequent months but news released last night, alongside a bunch of screens and videos, showed off exactly how Bioware is fixing up some of the less well-aged elements of the games. To bring you up to speed, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition takes the three original games, Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 (Extended Cut) and neatly packages…