Author: Duncan Pike

Leaked Intel GPU benchmarks show promise As we get closer to the official launch of Intel’s first real attempt at consumer-focused GPUs, internet detectives are sniffing for leaks. Someone actually managed to find one. Or at least what appears to be one. TUM_APISAK uncovered some benchmark results from SiSoftware that show how the new GPU performed in some synthetic tests. If these results are legit, this could be the cause for some celebration.A few specifications reveal that these results are for the DG2-512EU model. This is the flagship model for Intel’s Arc Alchemist series it plans to release sometime this…

One of the big names in our country’s minibus taxi industry, SA Taxi, says it is planning to trial electric taxis. But don’t expect that to happen in a big hurry. The CEO of Transaction Capital, the parent company to SA Taxi, Terry Kier, said a shift towards the use of electric taxis would be a “medium- to long-term project,” according to a TechCentral report. You can’t just stick a battery in a taxi and call it a day But, again, that’s not going to happen quickly. That’s partly due to the fact that it just doesn’t make economic sense…

After some eyebrow-raising backtracking on the initial 11 January launch, Samsung has announced its latest Exynos System-on-Chip (SoC). The Exynos 2200 should’ve been announced a week ago but the announcement was pushed back to today to coincide with the S22 launch. That’s according to a Samsung official who spoke to GSMArena.  This led to some speculation circulating that perhaps the new, still-to-be-announced S22 range would feature Snapdragon SoCs. Historically, only the models released in the US came with Snapdragon SoCs. The rest of the world, South Africa included, received devices with Samsung’s usually worse-performing Exynos chips. But things might be…

Another day, another leak of an upcoming smartphone. Info on Oppo’s newest flagship has surfaced, including the name, some specs, and what it’ll look like. Oppo seems to be one of those companies that have a hard time with numbers. Its newest flagship, reportedly called the Find X5 Pro, follows on from the previous Find X3 Pro. This is according to a now-deleted Weibo post that mentioned a few specs and showed us what it’ll look like.  The biggest surprise for most is the Hasselblad branding seen on the supposedly real-world photos of the device. To go along with that…

If you were ever thinking about trying to get into the crypto craze by mining some of it yourself, please don’t begin by mining using your laptop. If you do, don’t expect to make any money from it. One developer has done exactly the opposite and turned the Toshiba T3200SX from 1989 into a miner. This relic runs on an Intel 386SX processor with a clock speed of just 16Mhz and uses the MS-DOS OS. When it first came out you would have had to fork out the equivalent of close to R97,000 for it. And that was 30 years…

Twitter makes recording Spaces available to everyone Twitter has announced a small change to its Clubhouse clone, Twitter Spaces, that could make everyone ditch the former and sign up to the latter. Or, at least, that’s what Twitter wants. The change we’re talking about was first announced in October 2021. Back then, Twitter offered the ability to record Spaces and make the recording available to listeners who might’ve missed the stream.But at first, the feature wasn’t available to everyone. Only “some hosts” could use the feature. Presumably, this was to test out if the thing actually worked properly before pushing…

2022 hasn’t been very kind to Blackberry. Well, none of the years since 2013 have, but this one in particular. Only last week the company shut down legacy services for devices running its operating systems. Specifically, BlackBerry 7.1 OS, BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Playbook OS 2.1. That didn’t mean you’d have to throw away your trusty device but it did mean they stopped functioning reliably. So you might as well toss them. Following that announcement, a keen-eyed user of the CrackBerry forum pointed out that the few surviving BlackBerry Android apps would be reaching end-of-life at the end of August…

About a year ago, Baby Shark overtook Despacito as the most-watched video on YouTube. Now, the song is the first video on the platform to surpass 10 billion views and we don’t know what to do about it. Currently, it has 10,007,622,245 views, we’ll check back on that in a bit. That means that everyone in the world has watched it about 1.2668 times. Okay, not really. What’s actually happened is parents all over the world that were just looking for some time to themselves queued up the song several thousand times each. We assume. They’re who we have to…

Introducing UltraRAM. It’s an idea that’s been around for a while but has never really been achievable. That is, until recently. Scientists from the Physics and Engineering Department of the UK’s Lancaster University have published a paper on the breakthrough tech that could turn RAM and hard drives into one thing. It’s happened to all of us at least once. You’ve opened one too many Chrome tabs – so, five – and felt everything you’re working on grind to a halt. That’s your PC swapping things from your RAM to the pagefile on your hard drive.  Hard drives, the kinds…

Spotify HiFi, the streaming service’s lossless tier of audio streaming is being pushed back with no concrete timeline for a release in sight. It’s almost a year after it was first announced on 23 February 2021. If the feature itself is news to you, this is Spotify’s answer to Tidal or Amazon Music’s HD tier. Currently, Spotify’s ‘very high’ quality setting only streams lossy files at a bitrate of 320kbps. Spotify HiFI would increase that to lossless CD-quality, around 1,400kbps. Anyone can see that’s quite the quality jump. A lot of people, us included, were rather excited about it. This…