Author: Duncan Pike

Chinese tech maker Xiaomi is the latest to throw its hat into the smart glasses ring. On Monday, the company unveiled its rival to Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories called the Xiaomi Smart Glasses. While Xiaomi says the glasses could replace your smartphone, we wouldn’t bet on that happening anytime soon. At 51g it’s slightly heavier than the Ray-Ban Stories. It must be the LED indicator light to show everyone when the 5MP camera is in use, so if you’re recording something you shouldn’t be everyone will know. The glasses are powered by a really small ARM processor and will run on…

Microsoft’s xCloud service — also known as Xbox Cloud Gaming — has been available on mobile devices for a while, available to Xbox insiders through the beta program and to a select few Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers through a browser on their PC. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it would be bringing the feature to everyone else through the Xbox app on their Windows PC. If you need a bit of a refresh on what xCloud can do, it’ll work similarly to how Google Stadia works (without the “negative latency” marketing garbage). If you don’t have a powerful enough system…

Apple unveiled a lot of new tech at its live streamed event. Among that tech, and what everyone was most excited to see, are four new iPhone models across four different sizes (and prices). The standard iPhone 13 Mini and iPhone 13 share a lot of the same features and a few of the usual differences. Let’s cover the differences first. The Mini version measures just 5.4in and starts at $700 (around R10,000 — don’t expect that price here). Its slightly bigger brother is (you guessed it) slightly bigger at 6.1in and will start at $800 (roughly R11,400). Just like the…

At Apple’s live-streamed event it dove right in with its new iPads. The new iteration, simply called ‘iPad’, will use Apple’s new A13 Bionic chip, which will apparently give it the edge over competitors. That’s according to Apple, anyway, and of course it’d say that. The base ‘Pad Other refreshed specs include a new 12MP camera around the back featuring a 122-degree field of view so it can make use of ‘Center Stage’, Apple’s AI processing that dynamically adjusts the frame when someone walks in. Whether it’s always when you need it to, remains to be seen. These new iPads…

Just to be clear, in case the headline wasn’t, a Microsoft spokesperson has told The Register that Windows 11 will not be supported on Apple’s M1 devices. Put differently, Microsoft will continue to not support its operating system, something it’s always never done, on a competitor’s hardware. Not supporting it doesn’t mean it won’t run, but if you screw things up don’t go crying to Microsoft to help you unscrew them, you’ll find yourself blue-ticked. If you’re one of those people that need to work in both macOS and Windows for some reason, you might still be able to do…

A leak from Nvidia’s Geforce Now server has either revealed the next potential Sony PC ports or it’s just a random list or it’s somewhere in between. The point is no one has the answer except Nvidia and they’re not saying anything useful yet. First seen on Github from a post by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik, the list of 5,749 entries probably won’t make sense to a lot of people. But developer Ighor July found a similar, larger list while scratching around in the GeForce Now files with some interesting entries. If we were to speculate here, we had a…

If you, like us, can’t wait to try out the new version of Android since Google gave us an update at its I/O 2021 event back in May, we might not have to wait too much longer. Android 12, the version yet to be released, has been in the oven for much longer than its predecessors but XDA-Developers’ editor-in-chief Mishaal Rahman says the update could get a 4 October stable release. If you have a Pixel then your Android 12 wait is nearly over https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1437085889885310976 The thought here is that, if the screen capture in the tweet is accurate, Google…

Xiaomi continues to impress us with their affordable products that you have to work hard to find faults with. The company’s newest entry into the wearables market, the Mi Smart Band 6, follows this trend closely. You’d be hard-pressed to find the same mix of features at a similar price while maintaining a high standard of quality.  The smartwatch market saw a 27% year on year increase from Q2 of 2020 to Q2 of this year. Whereas the wearable band market also saw a bit of growth. Not quite as much as smartwatches, but it did see Xiaomi overtake Apple…

WhatsApp will now keep your chat backups safe WhatsApp has been using end-to-end encryption on your messages since 2016, which is a great feature. But if your messages aren’t encrypted everywhere it kinda defeats the point. That was the case until now. Recently, WhatsApp began testing encryption for the chat backup feature it offers, using

Last night, Sony held its annual PlayStation Showcase event. This year it was virtual, no surprises there. Those of you who have been lucky enough to get your hands on a PlayStation 5 since its release have a lot of awesome new titles to look forward to. As for the rest of you, we suggest a dark corner where you can sit and cry. As great as restocks, are unless you’re smacking F5 63 times second, you’re still not getting one. Anyway, here are the games. There were a few highly-anticipated titles shown off, a surprise or two and the…