Author: Duncan Pike

Audi Centre Centurion has something new for Audi e-tron owners. Not only has it utilised the power of the sun to offset its own energy consumption and charge electric vehicles on-premises. It also offers a smaller home-based solution. This means that if you’ve just bought an Audi e-tron electric vehicle, you needn’t rely wholly on the national grid to charge your vehicle. SMA Solar Technologies from Germany and locally-based ANH Technologies have partnered up on the hardware side to provide the equipment and installation expertise, according to Peter Preusse, the dealership’s managing director. The future is looking bright for EVs…

It’s officially official. Apple has released imagery and the slogan for this year’s iPhone and Apple Watch launch. “Far Out” could refer to anything, but probably has nocturnal connotations. If you’ve been paying attention, all signs point to the iPhone 14 and Watch Series 8 coming on 7 September 2022. The event will be broadcast live at 19h00 SAST from the Steve Jobs Theatre at Apple HQ on all the usual platforms. We’ll be covering the event on the night but from the comforts of our respective homes. Apple isn’t flying us to Cupertino, California to join them in person……

Pokémon is no stranger to weird and interesting collaborations. It has previously partnered with Samsung for a limited edition Galaxy Z Flip 3. That came in a Pokeball-themed box, with a red pouch for the phone. The latest collaboration is a lot more ambitious. Remember the Mini Concept Aceman that the British car manufacturer revealed in July? Well, now there’s a Pikachu-themed edition. The concept from Mini and Pokémon was revealed at the Opening Night live event of Gamescom. Mini, use projection Like the Samsung, we aren’t talking about a completely custom car here. The Pikachu-themed Mini Aceman concept car…

Have you ever held a vibrating controller and thought ‘I want this on my ears’? Nor have we. But someone at Razer did. Back in 2018, a whole team thought it would be a good idea to put haptic motors in each earcup of the Razer Nari Ultimate, right where the audio drivers are. That was a risky move that turned out to be not an awful idea. At the time many critics expected that, with some refinement, it might become a staple of gaming peripherals. Well, Razer must’ve agreed because it continues to release headsets with the haptic tech…

South Africa’s largest retailer, Shoprite Group, is planning to commit a further R3.5 billion towards reducing its carbon footprint. It’s not using its own money of course. That would be silly. Instead, banks and other companies are giving it money so they too can feel good about themselves. Sounds like a win-win, right? That’s billion, with a ‘b’ All those bags of money are coming from Standard Bank, RMB, and an unnamed beneficiary. The split amounts to R2 billion, R700 million, and R800 million respectively. That’s rather a lot of money. The Shoprite Group is going to use it to…

Netflix ads might not show up everywhere It’s no secret that Netflix plans to release an ad-supported tier on its platform. Over the last several months we’ve heard that the streamer has partnered with Microsoft to handle ads on its platform initially, the ad-supported tier will be missing some content and won’t support offline downloads.But, according to a new report from Bloomberg, some content will be safe from ads – kid’s shows and new original movies. Aside from the fact that advertising to kids is scummy, some of the studios that licence kids’ shows to Netflix will not allow the…

Samsung did it, Xiaomi did it, and now Huawei has done it. By ‘it’ we mean launching a new foldable device (among other things). The Huawei Mate Xs 2, Matebook X Pro, and MatePad 10.4 are some of the brand spanking new devices from the Chinese tech giant. They were unveiled at the Xperience Huawei 2022 launch event on 18 August 2022 at Sandton in Johannesburg. This time, the new foldable and all of its friends will be available in South Africa. Brought into the fold(ables) The star of the show was the Huawei Mate Xs 2. Technically this is…

Mark Gurman, the seemingly always-informed Apple whisperer, says Apple is planning to hold its next launch event on 7 September. Two guesses as to what that’s for. If you guessed an iPhone 14 launch then well done. One gold star for you. This is according to Gurman’s sources, “people with knowledge on the matter”. So our previous guess wasn’t too far off. He’s usually spot on when it comes to the goings-on at Apple so we don’t have any reason to doubt him. It also helps that Apple is a company of habit. It almost always holds iPhone events in…

We don’t think the folks at Spotify have had much sleep over the last few months with all the updates it has pushed out. The latest addition to the music and podcast streaming app focuses more on the latter of those two. Specifically, recording podcasts yourself. You might not yet be aware that Spotify is crazy about podcasts. If that’s the case, welcome to Earth. The company wants to make recording podcasts easy for everyone. Although, it seems like it’s using the word ‘podcast’ loosely here. Can you pull that up, Jamie? Back in June, the company started testing in-app…

After a recent spate of updates to the platform and interface, Spotify is looking to grow subscriber numbers with a good old sale. If you’re a first-time subscriber you can start your Spotify Premium subscription off with three free months. New Duo and family subscriptions only get one free month. Unfortunately, the offer is only available to new subscribers (including students) so if you’ve cancelled your subscription previously and are looking to cash in, you’re out of luck. Unless you cancelled Spotify before 15 July 2022. Then you still have a foot in the door for a discount. You can…