Author: Brett Venter

For a change, pretty much all of the Apple rumours were true. The company took the wraps off new 14in and 16in MacBook Pros — and yes, they’re powered by Apple Silicon. Both models of MacBook Pro will launch with up to the M1 Max processor, though it’s not known at this time which options will be available in South Africa. That’ll come later. For now, though… Serious displays Let’s talk notebook displays. Both the 14in and 16in Pros feature Apple’s Liquid Retina XDR displays, with the 14in model measuring 14.2in across the diagonal. That screen clocks in at a…

Apple’s processor news was a little spoiled this morning when we got a look at the company’s M1 Pro and M1 Max processors. Though, if we’re being fair, it was only the name that was spoiled just before Apple’s event kicked off. What they consisted of…? Yeah, that was known at the beginning of this month. Here are the M1 Pro and M1 Max Apple’s newest MacBook Pros are set to carry the company’s second-ever processor set made for notebooks. They’re also the fastest notebook chips Apple’s ever made — which doesn’t sound like much of an achievement but it…

Tonight, if you’re paying attention, is when Apple is widely expected to take the wraps off its new MacBook Pro models. And, because nothing happens when companies want it to anymore, many of those details have leaked already. Well, get ready for a few more. Apple’s M1 Pro and M1 Max processors have turned up online. Maxing out the M1 Pro One of the more specific leaks in recent weeks was the processor information for Apple’s new MacBooks. These machines are expected to include two distinct processor variants — both with ten CPU cores (two efficiencies and eight performance) but…

Do you long for a simpler time, when technology wasn’t quite so… enthusiastic? Nokia certainly thinks so, which is why it’s re-releasing its 6310 handset. You remember that one, don’t you? Well, the 2021 version is a… little different. The re-release of the Nokia 6310 is parent company HMD Global’s way of marking the 20th anniversary of the feature phone’s release. It first turned up in 2001, a few months after the original 3310 — which has also been re-released — first hit the market. Looking back on the 6310 So, are we looking at the same cellular phone here?…

HTC, the former smartphone company behind the virtual reality headset you’re most likely to want if you’re a Steam fan, has made its new Vive Flow VR hardware official. Following several leaks earlier this week, the company took the wraps off its new headset and it’s… interesting. The Vive Flow virtual reality headset is being punted as lightweight VR for people who are not really sure if that’s what they want. But at $500 (about R7,500) a pop, it’s not exactly entry-level. What the hell, HTC? Particularly since, if you buy an HTC Vive Flow, you’re also going to have…

It was only a matter of time before someone put a gun on a robot quadruped. Unexpectedly, the first real robotic gundog wasn’t a Spot. The SPUR, otherwise known as the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle, is a walking weapons platform from a company called Sword International. The robotic part of this thing was made by a company called Ghost Robotics, which makes robots for military purposes. This particular robot is a Vision 60, which draws design inspiration from Boston Dynamics’ Spot. The major difference? There’s a bloody great big gun mounted on top of the SPUR. Raking your SPURs  Sword…

Anker’s kit tends to be hit and miss for Stuff. Either it works, and does so well, or it’s just dismal. So our initial few minutes with the Anker Soundcore Life P2 wireless in-ear buds didn’t bode well for this review. But, like Lloyd Christmas, they managed to (almost) totally redeem themselves by the end of the review. Here’s how that happened. Box-ing match Before we get to that point, though, it’s worth going through what we’re looking at here. The Soundcore Life P2s are in-ear buds in the style made popular by Apple’s AirPods. That is, there’s a speaker…

Apple runs a very tight ship, though even the very tightest are bound to leak every now and again. Details of the company’s new M1X MacBook Pro models, widely expected to be announced at next week’s event, have surfaced online. Twitter must be where all the cool kids hang out because they always seem to know what’s up. @dylandkt, an iOS developer and Apple analyst, has dropped a series of details surrounding Apple’s new M1X MacBook Pros. What makes an M1X MacBook Pro? https://twitter.com/dylandkt/status/1447997813602799630 About the only thing missing from the leaks is just how much speedier Apple’s making its…

Well, Blue Origin did it. The space company sent beloved actor William Shatner off the surface of the planet, out beyond the Kármán line and then returned the 90-year-old man to Earth safely. We’re not sure what we’re going to be up to at that age, but now it has to be bungee jumping on Mars or something — thanks for that, Bill. William Shatner says ‘Wow’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utUQ01BueHY Blue Origin has released some video of New Shepard 18, its second manned flight to the heavens. The footage shows Shatner and the other passengers, Audrey Powers, Chris Boshuzien and Glen de…

William Shatner, who is a solid candidate for the title of ‘World’s Nicest Man’, travels to space a little later today. He’ll be making the trip on Blue Origin’s NS-18 mission along with three others — Blue Origin’s Audrey Powers, as well as Chris Boshuzien and Glen de Vries. Following a brief delay, Blue Origin’s mission lifts off today — at 16:00 local time, if all goes well. And, of course, you can watch the beloved Star Trek icon and his crew head out beyond the Kármán line as it happens. Watch Shatner boldly go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhdlIor-do Blue Origin will be…