Author: Duncan Pike

IFTTT, the user-friendly automation platform, is the latest to catch AI fever. The platform has announced three new AI services for its paying subscribers that will generate content for social media posts or blogs and summarise content from other posts or blogs. The new AI services, aptly named AI Social Creator, AI Content Creator, and AI Summarizer, can integrate with a user’s automation so even less human effort and creativity are needed. The only thing you do need is a R100/m IFTTT Pro+ subscription. IFTTT automates automation with AI In case you’re new, IFTTT is an initialism from the phrase…

Google has begun a gradual public rollout of its generative AI “collaborator” Bard, the company’s ChapGPT rival. There was the Arms Race, then we had the Space Race, and now we’re in a race for artificial intelligence development, with notable big tech-industry companies playing their hands, trying to get ahead of the latest tech trend. Regular folks in the US and UK can now join the waiting list to try out Google’s platform after the company recently opened up the program to more people. Bard was first announced a day earlier than scheduled, on 7 February, so Google could beat…

When Returnal launched in 2021, shortly after the PlayStation 5 debuted, it had a lot to live up to as one of the early releases made specifically for the new generation of consoles. Although it was the first AAA title for Sony-owned developer Housemarque, it managed to do just that. It received favourable reviews, picked up several notable year-end accolades, made the shortlist for Stuff’s 2021 Game of the Year award, and hit the Stuff Top Ten Games page where it still sits. Now, two years later, Returnal has made the jump to PC. And just like the PlayStation Studios…

We hope you enjoyed your electricity-filled Sunday, for your load is about to be shed. Yesterday, Eskom announced the load-shedding plan for the first few days of this week. Compared to what we’ve had this year so far, it might even seem like a good thing. Every South African will agree (except maybe Eskom chairperson Mpho Makwana) that the only load-shedding news worth celebrating is Eskom announcing its end. That’s definitely not what’s happening here. As we write this, Eskom has already made a change to this week’s schedule so we’d recommend the usual salt with any Eskom announcements. How…

Energy company EcoFlow has just unveiled three new portable power stations in South Africa – the Delta 2, River 2, and River 2 Max. We probably don’t need to tell you a backup power solution has become a necessity in our electricity-starved country. So deepening the pool of locally available devices aimed at alleviating some load shedding stress might sound like something worth celebrating. Meet EcoFlow’s new arrivals EcoFlow, still a relatively new company founded in Shenzhen China and headquartered in San Francisco US, showed off the new Delta 2 portable power station and two devices from the River 2…

Amazon and its subsidiary Kuiper Systems have unveiled the first official images of its Project Kuiper terminals for its low-Earth orbit-based satellite internet system. Kuiper Systems was founded in 2019, right around the time Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its first Starlink satellite into orbit. Coincidence? Probably not. Does it matter? Also no. Amazon makes smart tables now? If you couldn’t immediately tell from the images, these are not tables but renders of its Project Kuiper terminals. Renders of engineering models at that, so the final things might look different. But even from the renders, the resemblance to Starlink’s terminals is…

Independent London-based wireless analytics firm Opensignal has released the latest results of its Mobile Network Experience Report comparing and ranking South Africa’s top four mobile network operators (MNO). This suite of experience benchmarks is wholly the same as Opensignal’s previous studies, the last of which we saw in September last year. For the latest report, data was collected across the country over a 90-day period starting on 1 November 2022 and ending on 29 January 2023. Opensignal’s mobile network experience tests compare the average user experience of the four major local MNOs across four broad categories; Overall experience, 5G experience,…

GPT-4, the next version of OpenAI’s autoregressive Generative Pre-trained Transformer language model has arrived. It’s a year to the day after the company launched GPT-3.5, an incremental upgrade on GPT-3 which launched in June 2020. They grow up so fast, don’t they? This new language model – which will presumably take over from previous models in applications like ChatGPT and Microsoft’s new Bing – hasn’t fundamentally changed. OpenAI described the difference as “subtle”. Let’s chat about GPT-4 Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: https://t.co/TwLFssyALF pic.twitter.com/lYWwPjZbSg — OpenAI (@OpenAI) March 14, 2023 GPT-4…

Apple recently announced the aptly named Apple Music Classical, a standalone app dedicated to… you guessed it – streaming classical music. The app and service will only be available from 28 March but you can place a ‘preorder’ in the meantime on the App Store. Although in this case, all a ‘preorder’ does is tell Apple to give you the app when it launches. The fruit company claims its new app and service offers listeners the largest classical music catalogue in the world with some 5 million tracks and “hundreds of curated playlists, thousands of exclusive albums, insightful composer biographies,…

The fact that we’re nearly a quarter through the year might be troubling to some people. “Where has the year gone?” they might say. We at Stuff, on the other hand, relish the constant tick of time because it edges us closer to cool tech launches and new video game releases. Instead of having to keep track of the latter yourself, we’ve put a list together of the biggest titles releasing in 2023’s second quarter so you can add them to your calendar. You might want to use a pencil though — the possibility of a delay always lurks in…