Author: Brett Venter

The ladies and gents who make up Stuff spend loads of time using headphones. We all love to talk and sometimes, in order to get anything done, the noise has to be blocked out. Long story short, it takes quite a bit to impress us on the headphone front. We’ve used plenty of ’em and many come short. Samsung’s Galaxy Buds+, however, are impressive from the outset. Slick as ever And not just because they’re pretty — although the Galaxy Buds+ are a rather attractive pair. The smooth capsule-shaped black charging case gives the Buds an almost medical feel –…

Pretty much every South African event for the foreseeable future has been cancelled by the coronavirus outbreak but it’s always sad to get confirmation of that fact. Comic Con Africa’s  Cape Town event has been cancelled, and there’s no follow-up planned this year. Well, bugger. 

The world is changing, whether we like it or not. Social events around the world are being postponed or cancelled and the shape of ‘normal’ is altering. But people around the world are not letting that get them down. Take Spanish soccer teams Real Betis and Sevilla, who were due to play a La Liga match against each other this past weekend at the Servilla derby. Coronavirus, obviously, put paid to that idea. Choose your champion(‘s league) https://twitter.com/BorjaIglesias9/status/1239280764988133381 Instead, the teams decided to settle matters another way — a player vs. player match on FIFA 20, using the digital versions…

Do you have something to hide? In that case, WhatsApp’s planning on helping you get it done. The services is working on a feature that lets users set messages to self-destruct after a set period. And yes, we’re aware that this isn’t the first time. Legitimate uses Last year, WhatsApp was testing the ability to auto-delete messages in group chats. The feature would allow for messages to be set to set themselves aflame after a user-determined period. Guess what the new features for private chats would do? If you guess, ‘let you set messages to set themselves aflame after a…

Social media feels so much like a space that is owned by its users that it’s easy to forget that there are companies behind those spaces. TikTok, the popular social media app hailing from China, has just come along with a rather hectic reminder. TikTok, according to a report from The Intercept, gave its moderators instructions to limit the reach of media it deemed undesirable — such as if users were unattractive (specifically, had “unattractive facial looks”), or the background of video was unappealing. Examples of this? If the setting was “…shabby and dilapidated” or included “…slums, rural fields [or]…

We haven’t had enough time for a final verdict but here’s what we think of the largest (until the Note 20, as we reckon it’ll be called, rocks up) of Samsung’s 2020 lineup. In short, is it really what it’s cracked up to be?

The COVID-19 novel coronavirus is responsible for a whole lot of things in recent months, from event closures to factory closures, and that’s before we look at its (far more serious) impact on the world in general. Now there’s another company feeling a little ill — Apple, which has warned its retail stores that replacement iPhones might be hard to come by for the next few weeks. Made in China In case you’re unaware, the bulk of Apple’s supply chain is in China. And China’s locked down travel in many parts of the country, putting a strain on the world’s…

To paraphrase Dre, a giant doesn’t have to move unless its provoked. Rolling up sirens blaring is a sure way to get noticed but people will know you’re a kid. Roll up in Audi’s Q3 35 TFSI S Tronic and people are still going to notice — all the more because you don’t have to call attention to yourself. 

As part of a growing trend, another conference has been cancelled due to COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus. Facebook’s D8 developer conference is the latest event to be canned, postponed or heavily modified — the short version is that there won’t be any in-person gathering going on this May. 

MWC, coronavirus, blah, blah… yeah, the largest mobile phone convention in the world was taken out by an invisible organism, leaving everyone involved to fend for themselves. So we’re looking at a trickle instead of a torrent of info. Part of that trickle is LG’s new flagship smartphone, the LG V60 ThinQ, which… let’s be fair, they were gonna out on their news portal ahead of time anyway.