Lockdown continues, which means not many of us are getting out much at all. But there’s relief on the horizon. Sadly, not a lessening of restrictions (though that would be great), but literal relief, for the country’s poorest by way of the R350pm COVID relief grant. And, provided those poor folks have access to a smartphone — as much of the country does — nobody has to go out and apply for it.
Researchers have found several hardware vulnerabilities in Intel’s Thunderbolt port which could give malicious actors to everything on your machine. The good news is that they need five minutes with your physical hardware to do it.
Normally we’d start something like this off by saying ‘Only in South Africa’ but… zoombombing isn’t only in South Africa. This is just the most high profile incident so far. A National Assembly meeting today, hosted on video conference platform Zoom, was zoombombed using racial slurs and images of pornography, cancelling the meeting and necessitating a change of platform. Knowing is half the battle If the MPs or their meeting organisers had bothered to read Stuff, this might not have happened. There are several ways to keep your Zoom meetings (relatively) safe from intruders, provided you take the time to…
Money’s tight for everyone. If you’re lucky enough to be working from home you’re ahead of the game but just about everyone aside from remote workers and essential services have found their livelihoods curtailed. Including, lest we forget, music artists and other performers. It’s tough to make a living when your business model relies on getting large numbers of folks into the same venue. Music app JOOX has an initiative running at the moment that hopes to help artists out a little. Called Gig 2 Earn, the program isn’t a new one. It’s been around for some time but it’s…
It’s a whole new world, and not in a cutesy, Aladdin kinda way. Meeting new people largely revolves around a) not being scared to go close to them and b) wondering what they look like under that mask. Even dating services like Tinder are having to adapt. And adaptation is coming, in the shape of in-app video calls from the dating service. Expect the feature to land in Q2 2020, so before the end of… say… June? The rise of the Johnson-Cam? At first glance, this seems like a terrible idea. A dating app, where sex is at least in…
The world continues as normal, at least for companies like Apple. New on the scene is another 13in MacBook Pro from the fruit company, to go along with the 16in model revealed in November last year. Ah, November last year…. Anyway, nostalgia for a simpler time aside, Apple’s revamped 13in MacBook Pro has one major change. A Magic keyboard, of the type found in its larger sibling, has completely displaced Apple’s ill-fated butterfly keyboard. But wait, there’s more It wouldn’t be a hardware update without more that just a freakin’ keyboard, now would it? Along with the improved typing experience…
If you’re eagerly awaiting the broader rollout of 5G in your area, you might want to consider taking up mountain climbing. Vodacom and friends will have to come up with some excellent excuses why your dorpie doesn’t have access to superfast 5G when one of the most remote places on the planet has coverage already. Yup, you can Insta at high speed on the mountain if you really wanna, thanks to Huawei. Seriously? Yeah, seriously. The project is the result of Huawei and China Mobile, which have partnered up to build the Everest dual Gigabit network. The telecoms company has constructed…
So you need a new smartphone in your life, do you? And not just any smartphone, you need a new iPhone? Roll on the middle of May, because that’s when Apple’s new iPhone SE lands in South Africa. At least, that’s the word according to Makro, which has availability and pricing up on its website. Early info While local supplier MyiStore still has a ‘Coming Soon’ for Apple’s revamped budget handset, Makro’s spilled some beans for us. Makro has all the colour variants available for pre-order at present, as well as all of the available storage sizes. The handset is…
Usually when you see a car with a 1400 at the end of the name, you’re looking at a Datsun bakkie or a ‘student’ car. You know, the type with decent fuel economy and bodywork so soft you can dent it with a thrown marshmallow. That’s… not the case with the Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1400. But then, the first few words of the name should have been a bit of a giveaway. Thundercougarfalconbird Just like you shouldn’t ever play cards with anyone named after an American Deep South city (avoid all chaps called Tex, Dallas, Memphis, or variations thereof),…
So you’re sitting around playing video games this lockdown, feeling generally unproductive? Never fear, your spirits are about to be lifted. Call of Duty: Mobile has announced its 2020 World Championship tournament, a $1 million event that kicks off at the end of May this year. But first…
