Author: Duncan Pike

Ever since the Vision Pro was first unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on 5 June 2023, the fruit company has made a big deal about it being the next step in the evolution of how we use technology. The company even came up with a fancy new term for its fancy new device: ‘spatial computing’ – because now you’ll be doing your work in the space around you. Ignoring the fact that similar devices have existed for more than ten years already, Apple’s presumably well-paid marketing team managed to make a computer you strap to your face seem appealing.…

After three years of lossless audio edging, Spotify could finally give fans the release they’ve been begging for. Once again, lossless audio streaming on the platform could be right around the corner. That’s if new strings of code uncovered by a Reddit user are anything to go by. Spotify’s lossless audio streaming ambitions were first announced in 2021 as ‘Spotify HiFi’. But, as recently as last year, the company seemed to change direction with hints that hi-res streaming would form part of a more expensive, internally-named ‘Supremium’ tier. Now it seems like the streaming giant has changed direction again. HiFi…

If you don’t already farm your share of free money from Google Opinion Rewards then you should definitely download the app and start now. All you’ll need to do is provide your very real and definitely not made-up opinion about whatever the app is asking. After a few taps you should see your Google Play Store wallet increase. While you’re busy doing that or waiting for another survey to pop up, you may also want to know that your payouts might increase with a future update if the findings of X.com user and Google app investigator AssembleDebug are anything to…

First announced in February this year, Truecaller for Web promises to make dodging annoying spam calls and texts even easier – for Android users in India, anyway. Well, that was the case when the company first announced the feature a few months ago. But a message we received from the caller ID app today made us look a little further. Just as well we did, as the feature’s rollout seems to have reached South Africa. Truecaller’s web client, accessed through a web browser in the same way as WhatsApp or Telegram, seemed a little underwhelming at first, but at least…

A new report from MyBroadband Insights has named MTN the best overall mobile network in the country for the first quarter of 2024, with Vodacom hot on its heels in second place. 7,197 unique devices were recorded performing a collective 285,839 speed tests on the MyBroadband speed test platform all over South Africa from 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2024 to arrive at these findings. These speed tests, together with drive tests carried out in cities, towns and on the country’s main roads provide the basis for MyBroadband Insights’ findings and offer real-world performance metrics of South Africa’s mobile…

One of the main draws for buying a laptop over a desktop is its versatility and that’s exactly what Huawei’s latest MateBook D model is geared towards, hoping to curry favour with hybrid workers, students, and young professionals. If your workload is mostly answering emails, filling in spreadsheets, and typing up documents, you probably won’t care too much that Huawei’s 2024 MateBook D16 can’t do fancy things, like turn into a tablet. It’s more focused on getting you through the day without wasting your time making you wait for things to load or getting bogged down when you open more…

Several things became immediately obvious when the Beosound A5 from Bang & Olufsen first showed up at Stuff HQ. The first was that it was nearly lunchtime because let’s face it, the Nordic Weave model featured here wouldn’t look out of place on a blanket in a park along with some sandwiches. Once we got over that and took a closer look at the anodised aluminium plates, oak wood handle, and paper fibre weave covers, we were reminded of Bang & Olufsen’s esteemed heritage – and that this speaker was probably a pricey one. The Danish audio company has been…

While most smartphone companies fall over themselves trying to make their devices smaller, thinner, and lighter, the 8849 Tank 3 Pro from Unihertz stands on its own. It is unbothered by the trials and tribulations of other smartphones with their measly 5,000mAh batteries and paltry memory and storage offerings. There is an immediately obvious use case for the rugged Tank 3 Pro and its 23,800mAh battery — it would do well as a camping companion. But even then, it might be a little overkill because the enormous battery (which features 120W fast charging), rear LED light, and rugged IP68-certified design…

LG’s new M3 OLED evo TV solves a very specific problem. Don’t you hate it when you spend tens of thousands of rands on a new high-end TV to go in your professionally designed living room only for the unsightly cables running out the back to ruin the feng shui? We can only imagine how awful that must be. Thankfully, this terrible plight is easily solved with the new 77in LG M3 wireless OLED evo TV — all it takes is a big enough wall and R130,000. LG M3 OLED TV wins cable hide-and-seek The LG M3 OLED evo is…

Google’s AI-focused subsidiary, DeepMind, recently announced SIMA, its new “instructable game-playing AI agent.” SIMA, which stands for Scalable, Instructable, Multiworld Agent, is currently still in its research phase and is being trained to learn a broad range of gaming skills across a variety of scenarios — instead of just destroying humans at StarCraft II. Through partnerships with video game developers Hello Games, Embracer, Tuxedo Labs, Coffee Stain, and others, SIMA is learning how games work and how to apply what it learns to games it’s never seen before. DeepMind’s eventual aim with SIMA, other than furthering natural language AI model…