Author: Duncan Pike

Ukraine, like everybody else, is fed up with all the hacking that’s been going on. The country’s national police have arrested several members of the hacker group ‘Cl0P’, according to a statement issued by Ukrainian National Police earlier this week. If you can’t read Ukrainian, the statement explains that the country’s Cyber Police Department worked with Interpol and law enforcement officers from South Korea and the US in a joint international operation to catch these crooks. Ransomware pays off, crime, not so much The law enforcement officers carried out some 21 successful raids in the Kyiv region and seized about UAH…

One of the longest-running Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (MMORPG), RuneScape, is finally out of early access for a mobile version, and is available on iOS and Android right now. RuneScape, or in this case RS3, is developed and published by Jagex and has been around in some form or another for the better part of 20 years now. In that time it has gone through a few different versions. The version we’re talking about is the newly ported mobile version of RS3.  RS3 is free-to-play and offers cross-platform compatibility and progression so you can move between platforms and never have to…

It’s finally happening. The moment everyone on the entire planet has waited their entire lives for… is here. A new Tamagotchi has arrived. For the 25th anniversary of the Tamagotchi, the original creator Bandai is releasing a wearable version of its electronic companion. This time around you don’t need to spend the whole day worrying that, when you get back late after school because you had sport and detention, your beloved electronic friend has died from hunger or lack of attention. Now, you can carry them around your wrist wherever you go. In a meeting and don’t have time to give them…

People are really bad at keeping secrets these days. The next iteration of the Microsoft-developed operating system, Windows 11, has already leaked just a week before the official reveal at a virtual event set for 24th June 2021. Get your heaps of salt ready as we take a look. If this leaked build is legitimate (all signs point to that being the case) then the name of Microsoft’s new OS will indeed be Windows 11 as many people suggested. This leak also gives us a look at some of the new UI updates Windows 11 has in store. Windows 11…

E3 2021 has come to an end. This year’s conference was different in many ways from previous years. For starters, like pretty much everything these days, it was hosted entirely online. Secondly, some developers came right out and told us which games they will not be showing. Presumably in an attempt to deflate some of the hype that has always surrounded these kinds of events. In some cases, that kind of hype can be dangerous. In the same breath, speculating and predicting the surprises is half the fun. That being said, it isn’t like we won’t be seeing anything at…

Turtle Beach, usually known for its gaming headsets, is swimming out into uncharted waters (for them anyway): flight simulation controls. At E3 this year, the company announced that it will release the VelocityOne Flight, a universal flight control system. This will include an impressive array of tools, which is to be expected from a collaboration with aeronautical engineers and pilots. Turtle Beach shows us how to fly The flight system will provide users with a realistic 180-degree yoke handle, tuned for smooth and precise adjustments, apparently. You will also have access to the rudder controls, toe brake buttons and a full-colour…

Day three of E3 2021 has come and gone. Closing out the day was Razer, who did their very own presentation, all by themselves. They grow up so fast. Here is a round-up of everything they had to show us. AMD powered Razer Blade 14 Razer is touting its new Blade 14 as being the “world’s fastest 14-inch gaming laptop” and with the inclusion of newly released AMD 5000 mobile series chips and Nvidia RTX 3080 GPUs it very well might be. This marks the first time the company has moved away from using Intel chips in its laptops since they…

There are many different rumours circulating about Samsung’s new smartwatch offerings. All of them will either be confirmed or denied at the company’s online-only event on 28 June at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2021, if they don’t let the cat out of the bag the day before.  If Samsung sticks to their current naming convention then we should be hearing more about the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch Active 4 at MWC, alongside the rumoured three high-end devices the company is expected to announce: the Galaxy S21 FE (assuming chip shortages don’t cook its goose), Galaxy Z Fold…

If you take a look at the Xbox Series X and think to yourself “Hey, this kind of looks like a fridge,” then you aren’t alone. Most of the internet had the same thought back when the console was announced. Microsoft even took to Twitter to assure fans that the Series X will indeed be smaller than an actual fridge. Fast forward a bit to March of this year where Xbox and Skittles (of all companies) were the finalists of a Twitter competition to crown the best brand on the platform called “Best of Tweets Brand Bracket”. Xbox narrowly beat Skittles with 50.5% of…

Archer Aviation has revealed the Maker, its first urban air mobility vehicle prototype, for testing and certification. If all goes well then expect to see a larger production model. Don’t expect to see them here in SA anytime soon, however. The Maker, much like a drone, is an eVTOL craft. eVTOL, or electric vertical take-off and landing, does not need long, spacious runways to take-off or land and can use much more space-efficient helipads. Once airborne, it channels its inner Optimus Prime and transforms into an aeroplane so it can be quieter and faster. Powering the Maker is a total…