Author: Duncan Pike

Back in August, we got wind that WhatsApp was working on adding a message reactions feature from WABetaInfo. Back then it was still very much a rumour but WABetaInfo has a pretty solid track record when it comes to features and all news WhatsApp related, and it’s just proven that with an update to the feature. As we speculated, the feature should look similar to that of almost every other social media app, including Slack, Discord and WhatsApp’s owner, The App Formally Known as Facebook in that users will be able to react to messages with an emoji.  Okay, but…

If you tried to log in, launch or otherwise access any Blizzard games through its Battle.net game client late last night, you probably didn’t have a great time. That was due to the fact that, at the time, someone thought it would be fun to target Blizzard’s servers with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. As the name suggests, a DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic. Blizzard took to Twitter to let its…

The Google Play Store has had its fair share of malicious apps that it’s had to purge, oftentimes only after the aforementioned apps managed to infect millions of phones first. Now, it’s the Huawei AppGallery’s turn. The cybersecurity analysts over at Dr.Web have discovered a variant of the Cynos malware in the form of a trojan hidden inside hundreds of Android apps. For those not familiar, like the Greek army in the Trojan war gaining access to the city of Troy, a trojan virus hides inside other innocuous-looking apps, then steals your info or gains access to things it shouldn’t…

The video game industry has seen enormous growth in the past 2 years. Statista projected revenue to reach $155 million (R2.4 billion) this year and $225 million (R4 billion) by 2025. It’s crazy to think that all of that came about within the last 50 years or so.  From the first home console, the seldom heard-of Magnavox, through Atari’s VCS, Nintendo’s NES, Sony’s PlayStation, and, of course, home computers. It is the latter platform, the PC, that just won the “coveted” Golden Joystick Award for ‘Ultimate Hardware of All Time’. Of course it did. While there has, is, and will…

IO Interactive, the games developer behind the Hitman franchise, released an announcement yesterday in which it lists what’s coming up next in Hitman 3 – Year 2. The announcement video thanks the 50 million fans of the latest trilogy of games, shows off some features coming to PC and teased another bigger update. Coming up for Hitman 3 The first game update shown is ray tracing support for PCs. That includes the already implemented enhancements for CPUs with eight cores or more and Variable Rate Shading, a type of rendering technique used by Nvidia GPUs.  The love for the PC…

FNB has added yet another feature to its already brimming mobile app. Zapper QR code support is the latest digital contactless payment method to be added to the app after the bank added numerous services and features to the nav tab recently, contactless payment support for virtual cards as well as support in other digital wallets and Apple Pay support. It’s been a busy year for the FNB app dev team. The bank said, “All FNB and RMB Private Bank customers can conveniently scan QR codes from the major QR code providers in South Africa using the Scan to Pay…

Perhaps the most anticipated game of the last two decades, Star Citizen, just crossed $400 million in funds raised during its nine-year crowdfunding campaign. It reached $300 million 18 months ago so it seems like funding is picking up. At the time of writing, 3,366,842 people have collectively contributed $403,131,410 to the fund pool. If this is your first time hearing about the project here’s a quick crash course. The game was initially announced in 2012 — that’s when it started its crowdfunding campaign on its website and Kickstarter. The project reached the set targets quickly surpassed even the additional…

League of Legends show Arcane renewed for a second season The show only just debuted but Netflix has already renewed Arcane for the second season, which has already started production. Stars from the first season Ella Purnell (Jinx), Hailee Steinfeld (Vi) and Katie Leung (Caitlyn) will all make a return and reprise their roles. This shouldn’t come as a surprise given the reception the show received on launch. Netflix subscribers spent around 34.2 million hours watching the show in its first week on the top 10 chart. If you’re at all interested in League of Legends (LoL), the game from…

Fujifilm has unveiled its latest offering, the Instax Mini Evo. This new digital camera, like a lot of the other Instax models, prints photos straight after you’ve taken them. This newest model has a retro feel, complete with top-mounted dials and a film advance lever for the printing mechanism. Fujifilm lets you send pictures the old fashioned way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXKmfy14Smk&list=PLqOn0AffMiA6l8SxBJh7tJopwzz4oYXUZ&index=2 The Instax Mini Evo features a 3in LCD screen to help you line up your shots. You can also preview pictures before you edit and print them. You’ll be able to select from ten lens effects and ten film effects for…

If you’re familiar with Discord, you’ll know one of the many boons for server owners and casual users is the use of bots for menial tasks. If you aren’t familiar, Discord has an API (Application Programming Interface) that allows server owners to manage their servers and automate many tasks with bots, kinda like the ones you interact with on some websites. According to Discord, around 430,000 bots are used every week by the 150 million monthly active Discord users. The company has obviously noticed this, or maybe it was the plan all along. From around Q2 2022, users will be…