Author: Duncan Pike

Battlefield 6 hasn’t even been out a full month, and new content is already on the way. Today, that takes the form of the game’s free-to-play battle royale game mode, Battlefield REDSEC, and the first of three planned post-launch content updates. The battle royale mode won’t be surprising if you followed BF6’s launch hype. A scrap of a teaser was shown off during the open beta launch event, and data miners uncovered references to a codenamed ‘Granite’ project, which turned out to be Redsec (short for ‘Redacted Sector’). Getting Battlefield 6 to more gamers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn8k1g3vMDU&rco=1 Come 17h00 SAST today, Tuesday, 28…

If you make a habit of skipping leg day, or would rather scoot around the office in your chair than get up and walk, Nike’s Project Amplify could be just what you need. These futuristic kicks act as “a second set of calf muscles” for “everyday athletes” who want to walk or run more while expending less effort. They’re probably also good for the more serious athletes, although then it might feel like you’re cheating. Nike subhead “Project Amplify started with a single question: What if we could find a way to help athletes move faster and farther with less…

South Africa’s Ministry of Home Affairs has announced a new pilot program that hopes to reduce passport waiting times from 18 months down to just five weeks. The catch? It’s only for South Africans who don’t live in South Africa… for now. “For the first time ever, #TeamHomeAffairs is launching the option of doorstep delivery! From 1 November, citizens abroad will have the option to have their Passport delivered to their home when they use our new service centres abroad,” Leon Schreiber, Minister of Home Affairs, wrote. We have Home Affairs @ home “This marks the first time ever that…

On the heels of its X300 series launch, Vivo has officially announced that OriginOS 6, its take on Android 16, will be shipping to global markets. The new X300 devices support the updated OS out of the box, but it will roll out to older devices in the coming months. Before you get too excited, the new OS probably won’t ship to every Vivo device. It’s more likely that only upper mid-range and flagship devices will be eligible for the update, like the pricey X200 Pro launched at the start of this year. Still, it’s a welcome change from the outdated…

Vivo announced its new X300 series flagship smartphones last night at its debut launch event in Shanghai, China. The Vivo X300 and X300 Pro follow on from the X200 Ultra launched earlier in the year. While the latter device skipped the South African market, the incoming X300 series seems to bridge the gap that typically exists between pro- and ultra-level devices, so much so that it’s hard to tell where the soon-to-follow X300 Ultra will fit in. Vivo X300 wants to snap your pics Like the X200 series it succeeds, the X300 puts camera performance front and centre. Both the…

Remember back in January when Netflix said it would roll out party and couch co-op games on your TV ‘in the future’? Well, that future is finally here, kinda. The streaming giant’s co-CEO, Gregory Peters, has announced what the first of those titles will be and that they’re coming for the holiday season during the recent Bloomberg Screentime conference. “We’re creating a completely new way to play games — one that’s as easy as streaming a show on a Friday night,” said Netflix in its announcement post. You’ll need a Netflix sub, and some friends There will be five party games…

It’s been a minute since Sennheiser has competed in the high-end wireless headphone space. It launched the Momentum 4 in 2022, which is still favoured by some over the likes of Sony and Apple, but it’s been real quiet since. Now, instead of the Momentum 5 follow-up, the company recently announced the HDB 630. The HDB 630 doesn’t hold anything back You’d be forgiven for thinking the new HDB 630 were part of the Momentum range. In a way, they are. Sennheiser says they “inherited” much of their design from the Momentum 4 but that they’ve got a new acoustic…

You can already get it on your smartphone and your computer, and now Fraimic aims to let you put AI-generated art on your wall with what it calls “the world’s smartest art canvas.” The company behind the new E Ink canvas is currently running a rather successful campaign on Kickstarter, raising over $800,000 since it launched in September. The idea is simple: tell your canvas what art you want to see, and it will generate it for you. It’s powered by OpenAI, so you probably don’t have to worry about pesky things like copyright. More AI slop please, Fraimic Using…

Dedicated AI-powered devices can be a mixed bag. That’s a fact that OpenAI and former Apple design head Jony Ive are contending with as the pair attempt to justify OpenAI’s $6.5 billion acquisition of io, when the latter has yet to release a single product. OpenAI and Ive are facing developmental issues as they try to bring a supposedly always-on AI-powered device to market, the Financial Times (FT) reported. No repeating Humane and Rabbit Inc.’s mistakes The initial plan centred around creating a screenless, smartphone-sized device that would use microphones and cameras to take audio and visual cues from the user’s environment.…

Earlier this month, Dell Technologies announced what it calls the Dell Pro Plus Earbuds, and they’re exactly what you think they are. Like most regular earbuds these days, the Dell Pro Plus earbuds offer active noise cancellation, transparency mode, and adaptive audio. But they have a trick up their sleeve — these are the world’s first earbuds to ship with a Microsoft Teams Open Office certification. It’s mostly the same thing as a regular Microsoft Teams certification, only with more stringent testing involved. They’re also certified for Zoom. Dell Pro Plus Earbuds for work The Dell Pro Plus Earbuds support…