Author: Duncan Pike

Apple’s mythical mixed reality headset has once again entered the conversation thanks to a new report from Apple soothsayer Mark Gurman. Gurman now reckons the long-awaited VR/AR device from Apple will make its debut at the company’s annual World Wide Developers Conference in June this year. Not before, as was previously rumoured. Any day now, Apple This is certainly not the first, second, or even third time the tech company has pushed back the launch. The XR headset was originally planned for a 2019 release. That was then pushed back to 2020, before the world descended into SARS-CoV-2-induced viral chaos.…

So you consider yourself a sports fan, ‘ey? Are you the friend in the group that goes all out with snack platters during the game and tjops oppie braai after? Want to know how you can take your sports viewing up a notch or three? The place to start is with your TV and that’s where we come in. If you’re thinking about upgrading your TV and know you’ll spend most of the time watching sports, we’ve put together a list of specs to keep in mind to ensure sports look their best. The only downside is now you can’t…

If you’ve been following the news at all over the last 18 months, we won’t have to tell you that artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining mainstream traction rather quickly. It seems to be the latest buzzword picked up by silicon valley and Big Tech. But that isn’t to say it just came about. Joseph Weizenbaum created ELIZA, one of the first natural language processing programs, with the intent to make natural language conversation with a computer possible. That ‘conversation’ is laughable by today’s standards but come on, it was the 60s, everyone was busy doing… other things. Inspired by ELIZA,…

File sharing has come a long way. If you’re still emailing yourself images or documents, whether from PC to mobile device or vice versa, we’re here to tell you there are a lot of options you could be using instead. Most of these don’t require much more effort than the emailing ways of yesteryear. However, all these options for file sharing bring their own set of requirements and limitations. Some companies don’t like to play nice with others – looking at you, Apple. Additionally, many methods require your devices to be on the same local network or have an active…

In the not-so-distant future, Windows 11 could provide gamers and streamers with native support for RGB peripherals and accessories. If that’s true, it’ll mean most users won’t need to install the often clunky, resource-hogging programs made by peripheral manufacturers. Talk of native Windows RGB support has been around for years. Could this be the version of Windows that actually does it? Windows 11, now with unicorn vomit New settings for device lighting make an appearance in build 25295. Is this the beginning of the end for low quality RGB gamer gear apps? 🎮 The spec for this is from 2018…

Last night, Asus announced its new ROG Strix Scar 18, the latest flagship gaming laptop under its Republic of Gamers sub-brand. It follows the ROG Strix Scar 17 SE, which we reviewed last year. Asus announces ‘new’ laptops every year. Some are actually new. Others are just slight revisions with the latest specs from Intel, AMD, or Nvidia. This year, the ROG Strix Scar 18 is both. Strong arms and deep pockets The ROG Strix Scar is Asus’ flagship gaming laptop range so they only feature the best-performing components. This year, that’s in the form of Intel’s 13th-gen Core i9-13980HX.…

A24’s The Whale, from director Darren Aronofsky, marks the unanimously welcomed return of Brendan Fraser to the big screen. He’s joined by a relatively small and mostly effective cast of Hong Chau, Sadie Sink, and Ty Simpkins. The storyline, based on the stage play of the same name by Samuel D. Hunter, follows Charlie (Fraser), a morbidly obese reclusive English literature teacher. Despite the best efforts of his one and only friend Liz (Chau), Charlie is either unwilling or unable to stop eating himself to death. With alarmingly high blood pressure and congestive heart failure imminent, Charlie desperately attempts to…

Well, that didn’t take long. Google only just debuted Bard, its AI-powered chatbot, on Monday. But that was apparently enough time for the bot to lose parent company Alphabet around $100 billion in market value. The dive happened on Wednesday after the chatbot provided inaccurate information to a prompt during a promotional video posted to Twitter. Bard is singing, but its the wrong song Bard is an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA. Built using our large language models and drawing on information from the web, it’s a launchpad for curiosity and can help simplify complex topics → https://t.co/fSp531xKy3…

‘If you can’t beat ’em, integrate their competition’ seemed to be Microsoft’s take on the proverb when the tech giant announced plans to use OpenAI-powered tools to improve its search engine and web browser, Bing and Edge. On Tuesday, at the company’s Washington HQ, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella remarked, “this technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category.” We’re glad to see he’s keeping expectations low. Bing and ChatGPT sitting in a tree The revamped Bing search engine will use a different, more advanced OpenAI language model than the GPT-3 model used in the popular ChatGPT bot. Bing…

Google has jumped its own gun by announcing its in-house consumer-facing AI platform, called Bard, to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT a day before its live-streamed event, beating Microsoft’s AI-related announcement (scheduled for later today) by a few hours. But instead of a relatively descriptive name, Google has opted for something a little more obscure. Have you got your coins ready? Okay Bard, toss a coin ChatGPT, the chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3 proprietary language model, can be found down almost every avenue of the internet. It makes headlines daily (here’s another one), for better or worse. Google’s premature announcement comes direct…