Author: Duncan Pike

If a phishing scam – where you clicked on a dodgy link and signed in or willingly gave someone your username and password over the phone – has ever made you feel like a fool, FNB’s new feature was made for you. The South African bank has announced the addition of a new Secure Call feature to its smartphone banking app to go with the existing Secure Chat feature. All in the name of keeping you safe… if you’re an FNB customer, that is. FNB’s customers are people, not phish Calls made with Secure Call use Voice over Internet Protocol…

Yesterday, at its second Unpacked event of the year, Samsung revealed two new smartwatches – the Watch 6 and Watch 6 Classic. Of course, other new devices were announced, but we’re mainly concerned with the company’s new watches here. Specifically, where the Watch 6 Classic slots into Samsung’s lineup and how it compares to last year’s flagship. Should you cough up more dough or stick with the Pro? Lord of the Watch: Return of the Bezel The first thing anyone familiar with Samsung’s smartwatches will notice is the return of the physical bezel. For people not familiar with Samsung’s smartwatches,…

Time is a circle and today, at its second Unpacked event of the year, Samsung announced two new circular timekeepers – the Galaxy Watch 6 and Galaxy Watch 6 Classic. The pair of smartwatches arrive alongside a host of other new devices from the South Korean technology giant, including the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Galaxy Z Flip 5, and three new Galaxy S9 tablets. Samsung’s best wearable yet? These new smartwatches are new but they should be familiar if you’ve seen a previous Samsung wearable, which isn’t a bad thing. Like previous years, the Watch 6 and 6 Classic are available…

By now you’re probably aware that Samsung held its second annual Unpacked event today, 26 July. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll already know all about the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Galaxy Z Flip 5, Galaxy Watch 6, and Galaxy Watch 6 Classic. Joining those are three refreshed Galaxy Tab models. Samsung isn’t known for making drastic changes lately unless absolutely required which is why this year’s range of tablets closely resemble those launched last year. Except for the number on the end getting bigger, obviously. Meet the Galaxy Tab S9, Galaxy Tab S9+, and the Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra.…

We’ll admit we weren’t particularly excited to learn that Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer would be a biopic when it was announced in 2021, despite being long-time fans of the writer-director. After the visually impressive, wildly ambitious, and often-polarising Tenet, we were hungry for another expertly-crafted mind-bending film. How foolish we were to doubt Nolan would deliver. We quickly warmed up to the film ahead of its release with every subsequent casting announcement linking yet another award-winning actor to the project. Then, the pre-release buzz around Nolan’s almost-exclusive use of large-format IMAX cameras, along with a completely new large-format black-and-white film stock…

There’s a pretty good chance you haven’t heard of Meze Audio. The Romanian-based high-end audio company isn’t as widely known as the large multinational audio manufacturers like Sony, Bose, or Bowers & Wilkins. That’s partly because they’re still relatively new to the audio game, being founded in 2011 by industrial designer Antonio Meze, and partly because they only make one kind of product – high-end headphones and earphones. By ‘high-end’ we don’t just mean expensive. Although, compared to what most South Africans are used to, these headphones definitely are. With Meze, we’re talking about the kind of headphones you’d plug…

New information about Meta’s new app and would-be Twitter competitor, Threads, was spotted recently that could see the app launching as soon as Thursday this week. The timing is rather fortuitous after Musk announced that his platform would be temporarily limiting the number of posts users could see per day. Not to mention the blue bird’s most recent announcement that TweetDeck would be joining the Twitter Blue graveyard. Honestly, we’re not wholly convinced that Musk doesn’t have some sort of stake in the launch of Threads. Will Threads replace tweets? Folks at The Verge spotted a recent Apple App Store…

Chinese electronics manufacturer Oppo has officially launched the Reno10 Pro+, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone, at a South African launch event in Johannesburg. This serves as the company’s global launch and comes just five weeks after the company debuted the Reno10 series in China last month. When it comes to new tech, South Africa often finds itself near the bottom of the launch schedule. It’s nice to see that’s changing. Well, for this launch anyway. Another upper mid-ranger enters the ring The Reno10 Pro+ lands somewhere in the upper mid-range segment an features fairly impressive specs. It’s rocking Qualcomm’s previous…

2022 was a memorable year for a variety of reasons, depending on who you ask. Eastern Europeans will have one answer while Pam in Human Resources will probably have a different one. In both cases, however, the answers affected the entire world. Today, we’re mostly concerned with Pam’s answer – Wordle. We’re sure we aren’t the only ones who think the internet is a slightly different place since the viral word-guessing game dominated watercooler chatter. According to Progress Bar 2023, we’re just about halfway through the year so it’s about time for another sickenly-addictive browser-based time-waster. Enter The Password Game…

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have a cinematic experience without having to share it with obnoxious youths or the sound of snack-packet rummaging? Well, you can, for a few million rands. If you’re a pleb and can’t afford to build a cinema in your home, a high-end home theatre system is the next best thing. That’s the experience LG aims to provide with the S95QR, the flagship of its 2023 soundbar lineup. Or, as LG likes to call it, “LG S95QR 9.1.5 ch High Res Audio Sound Bar with Dolby Atmos and Wireless Rear Surround Speakers”. Launched last…