Author: Brad Lang

Despite the fact that schools and children’s television shows constantly reinforce the fact that we should always wash our hands from a very young age, very few of us have kept it up. Be honest with yourself, you could probably wash your hands a little more. Especially now, as the world starts to come down from such a potent pandemic. We get it, you’re a busy person and sometimes you just forget to wash them, so why not have a handy little reminder dangling from your wrist? Well, maybe “dangling” isn’t the best way to be handling your Samsung Galaxy…

Social media has been a blessing for a few and an outright curse to many more. Who allowed us to make Facebook accounts when we were fourteen years old? Whichever irresponsible adult let us do that should be punished for negligence because there is nothing more soul-crushing yet humbling than trawling through Facebook posts that are more than ten years old. If you’ve ever taken on the task of sifting through that old feed, you know how arduous it can be as you manually sift through every individual post. Thankfully, such a chore has been simplified thanks to the new…

Despite Skype being in the video call game for seventeen years now, it’s utterly baffling to us how badly it’s lost the current war for video conference supremacy. Just a few months ago, no-one in the Stuffoffice had even heard of Zoom and now we tend to use it almost weekly. What happened to Skype? How did you fall? If anything, the only thing Skype has over Zoom is that fact that all Skype-to-Skype communication is encrypted to ensure the privacy of its users. You’d think Zoom would be quick to implement such a feature on their app but it seems…

Xiaomi is on the cusp of releasing their latest phone, the Redmi Note 9s series and thus, we come to you with the hottest news regarding the impending release. The Redmi Note 9s is a powerful piece of hardware, looking at both keeping up with the other popular devices in the country while providing a phone that won’t cost you a kidney with a side of fava beans. So what can you expect regarding the upcoming launch? Well, first things first, the Redmi Note 9s will be available in South Africa twice…kinda. Xiaomi’s new device will be available on Takealot…

While Call of Duty’s incredibly successful battle royale mode Warzone flourished during the height of the global pandemic, the next season of gameplay has been pushed back by Activision in response to the current protests currently unfolding in the United States. This delay is being implemented to Warzone, Modern Warfare’s standard competitive multiplayer modes and Call of Duty Mobile. Hey, just because they’re the biggest games in the world doesn’t mean they go on unaffected by current events.  In a statement published on Twitter last night, Activision writes, “While we look forward to playing the new seasons of Modern Warfare, Warzone and Call of Duty: Mobile, now…

Ah, the promised potential of the robotic helper. We all need an occasional hand living our day to day lives, especially if you’re a small-time business owner trying to get back by in the restaurant industry during a global pandemic. How are you expected to wait on customers when you’re meant to keep at least two metres away from them at all times? Well, remember when we were talking about robots a few seconds ago… To ensure that business can continue as (kinda) normal, the Royal Palace, a restaurant in the Netherlands, has begun using a pair of robots as…

While we all know that there’s a sucker born every minute that doesn’t mean we should pick on them. Those poor folks, they see the world as this magical place of kindness and opportunity, unaware that all around them swim sharks and villains, tempting them with offers that are clearly too good to be true… Such is the case with this DStv Premium scam currently doing the rounds, so best to keep up-to-date and informed as to avoid falling prey to some conniving conman. We can already hear the comments section: “I don’t get it, I thought DStv Premium was…

Look, it’s okay to be having loads of those ding-dang intrusive thoughts lately. Nowadays, it’s difficult to imagine going through a single hour without a spike in anxiety levels. While some are fortunate enough to be able to talk to a therapist online, plenty of folks don’t have such resources at their disposal. Anxiety is a tricky thing, with plenty of people often confused by whether or not they’re even experiencing it. Fortunately, if you’re stuck in that kind of position, then Google’s new search engine feature will allow users to determine their levels of anxiety. The assessment in question,…

There’s a market for absolutely everything these days. Have you seen the Craigslist advert for the guy that’s willing to pay $150 to just hang out in your septic tank and film the experience for some reason that’s apparently not a fetish? People like that have proved that you can sell anything on the internet and if you’re famous enough, then you might even be able to sell an intangible part of yourself. Specifically your soul. Well, that’s musician Grimes’ plan. Just after naming her newborn baby (fathered by tech billionaire Elon Musk X) Æ A-Xii, she’s decided that rather than ruining…

Glamourising scams is not something we like doing at Stuff. Thousands of well-meaning yet gullible people are duped by scam artists every year and while one would like to think that the majority of our society has grown wise to the more common scams, certain conspiracy nuts just make for such easy targets. Those folks that adamantly believe 5G technology is the cause of the coronavirus have become so paranoid over an issue that never existed in the first place, it almost feels like they’re inviting cunning criminals to take advantage of them. Such is the case with this “Anti-5G device”…