Author: Brad Lang

The collected assortment of podcasts and chill music is supposedly designed to encourage you to breathe a little easier and maybe just set your mind at ease for a while, which is probably something we could all do with right now. Just because we’re into the last week of the national level 5 lockdown (hopefully) doesn’t mean that everything is going to be fine and dandy afterwards. Times are still tough for a lot of people, so if you’re still feeling incredibly anxious and under pressure, don’t worry. You have every right to be and you’re not the only one.…

If you thought the whole COVID-19 pandemic was just starting to ease its grasp on humanity, looks like we have something new to stress about. We’re not talking about boring stuff like the economy, we’re talking about the “confirmed” existence of aliens. Spooky! One can only imagine that after this news broke a few hours ago, a whole commune of alien-obsessed nuts camping in the valleys of the Nevada desert all but broke down in tears as the existence of extra-terrestrial life was confirmed for everyone to see, now impossible to deny. At least, that’s probably the angle they’re running…

While the Galaxy Buds may be almost a year older than the improved Galaxy Buds Plus, Samsung has confirmed that they’re rolling out an update for the device that will bring a range of features previously only available to the Buds Plus to its more antiquated sibling. The Galaxy Buds Plus are a really nice piece of hardware. Great sound quality, impressively long battery life and incredibly easy to use and sync with your devices, the Buds Plus are a marked improvement over last year’s Galaxy Buds. While Samsung’s first attempt at wireless earbuds was certainly…fine, they lacked some of…

This news comes just a few weeks after Sony delayed the game “indefinitely” so while it’s certainly great to know that we’ll still be getting Naughty Dog’s latest project fairly soon it does make one wonder why so much effort was put into pushing the game back only three weeks. Fans of The Last of Us can rejoice and sing their praises to Sony and the gods of distribution as they’re now once again on track to continue the story of Ellie without waiting much longer. The Last of Us has had a bumpy road with several delays pushing the…

According to DJI, the drone’s technical specs are more than a little impressive as it boasts an upgraded camera from the original Mavic Air and a flight time longer than most competitors in its field. Of course, this means that the price is set to reflect all these features and it very clearly shows. Last week (or maybe a little before then, it’s impossible to keep track of the days) we reported on a leak and a teaser, sent out by DJI themselves, regarding the apparent release of their latest drone which everyone believed to be the Mavic Air 2,…

WhatsApp stickers seem to have really caught on. If emojis have taught us anything it’s that people much prefer to communicate through adorable images than words. No judgement from us, we’ve sent plenty of WhatsApp stickers in the past. We like to use Twitch emotes but frankly, during a world wide pandemic, those just aren’t going to cut it. Thus, WhatsApp has now rolled out a set of “together at home” stickers to promote self-isolation and social distancing. The adorable little images all depict exactly what you think they do: actions and pastimes that help significantly reduce the spread of…

The contracts cover data plans fro Vodacom, Telkom and MTN and compared to purchasing contracts from any of those individual service providers it seems like it might be cheaper to go the iStore route. Which is a sentence we never thought we’d write but everything’s upside down and nothing makes sense any more. Recently, some of the pricier service providers have been smacked with some serious hits to their exorbitant data prices. While Vodacom and MTN have been forced to lower their prices on their selection of data bundles, they’re still not the cheapest option by any stretch of the…

Everyone seems to enjoy experimenting with deepfake technology. This year alone we’ve been blessed with some absolute gems, including this clip from Back to the Future starring Tom Holland and Robert Downey Junior, all achieved through the most convincing face-replacement technology we’ve seen to date. Yet that was all pre-rendered fun. We’ve seen quite a few deepfake breakthroughs of late but this real-time AI-driven deepfake technology is maybe the most impressive example to date. And it’s all live, which is exactly what programmer Ali Aliev has had his sights set on. https://youtu.be/E_Efy9iiQJM Aliev posted a rather adorable prank he pulled…

While Fortnite has been kicking around on the iOS store for some time, disagreements in revenue shares have led Epic Games to continuously delay the battle royale’s inclusion on Google’s Play Store. Clearly negotiations didn’t exactly mount to much and, fed up with all the legal nonsense, Epic has accepted Google’s conditions and thrown their killer app onto the store. It’s been possible to download Fortnite on your Android for some time now but it’s always been a bit of a chore. See, Epic didn’t exactly enjoy Google’s conditions for including the game in the Play Store selection. Google basically…

This would double the current limitation on users that can participate in video calls on the instant messaging app. While it’s certainly not the kind of capacity that can compete with the likes of Google Hangouts and Zoom at least families with more than four members won’t have to decide who they love most. With video conferencing seeing such a boom due to the coronavirus pandemic, social media sites have been pulling out all the stops to either cater to or capitalise (depending on who you ask) on the gap in the market. Zoom may be the hot commodity at…