Author: Duncan Pike

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…

In our local announcement coverage of the Asus ROG Ally, we mentioned pre-orders were available with local sales starting from 15 June. We also noted that we couldn’t tell you our full thoughts until then. That’s changed, thanks to a better-than-expected pre-order response. For a lot of gamers, it seems the R16,000 price tag isn’t high enough to warrant waiting for reviews. We’ve already shared our first impressions of Asus’ new toy. Unfortunately, our excitement from our first hour or two with the ROG Ally tapered off pretty quickly. As much as we tried to keep our expectations in check,…

Samsung has finally ‘confirmed’ a sparse few details about its second Galaxy Unpacked event for 2023. Unfortunately, it chose to keep the exact date of the event vague, only mentioning a “late July” window with previous rumours pointing to 26 July. This announcement seems to have been a little quick on the trigger as the press release, which first appeared on Samsung Australia’s Newsroom, is no longer available. But the internet never forgets as is evident from this cached version of the press release, spotted by leaker @sondesix, which was still accessible at the time of writing. If that wasn’t…

Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicked off last night, 5 June, at 19:00 SAST. We brought you the latest hardware news almost immediately. This year included the new monstrous M2 Ultra chipset that will find a home in the Mac Studio and refreshed cheese grater Mac Pro, the new 15in MacBook Air that is apparently “the world’s best 15-inch laptop”, and the very exciting (and very expensive) Vision Pro — the much-rumoured augmented reality headset. But there’s more. Apple’s watching In the middle of it all, the fruit company dedicated a good chunk of time to numerous software announcements…

Now that Asus has announced the local price and availability of the ROG Ally, we’re allowed to share our initial thoughts on the company’s brand-new handheld device. Pre-orders have opened and are available through Asus’ online store or Makro if you absolutely must have one as soon as possible. But blind pre-orders are almost always a bad idea. Being the early bird might net you the worm, but you could also end up having to flee for your life from a cat. Ever think about that? Applied to a handheld gaming console, you won’t have to wait as long to…