Author: Brett Venter

While we wish this hadn’t taken place, we’re oddly okay with it. Game publisher/developer CD Projekt’s upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed from its 16 April 2020 launch to later this year. September 2020 is the new date to look forward to. Whoa https://twitter.com/CDPROJEKTRED/status/1217861009446182912 The reason given for the delay is that “there is still work to be won”. CD Projekt says that “…due to the sheer scale and complexity of it all, we need more time to finish playtesting, fixing and polishing.” And, honestly, we’re willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The studio’s previous title, the…

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Huawei’s last flagship never made landfall in South Africa, though there was talk that it might turn up this side of the world in early 2020. There’s no update there just but the Chinese company’s  P40 Pro has broken cover in a new leak. The leak comes by way of Evan Blass, he of @evleaks and many of the major smartphone leaks over the past few years. It shows off the P40 Pro from every angle, letting us take a very lingering look at the upcoming hardware. Ceramic Cameras’R’US The major (and obvious) feature is the rear camera. Huawei’s been…

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It’s time for Stuff’s annual Gadget Awards, where we look back at the year and devices that were in 2019. That were… lots of things. Were awesome, were epic, were well worth buying. And while there’s a whole lot of debate going on at Stuff Towers, there’s a little bit that we don’t do ourselves. That’s where you come in. Just as with the Reader Smartphone of the Year, we’re asking you, the viewer, to get involved. The extent to which you do that is up to you but we’d really like you to vote on what you think the…

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If you’ve been here a while then you might know how this goes. Every year, Stuff hands out awards to the very best in tech for the previous year. Here in 2020, we’re looking back at the tech that made up 2019 — one of the best (and most frustrating) years the industry has had to date. But… it’s the beginning of the year, we’re all feeling mighty lazy and… wait, no, that’s not the reason at all. Every year we give Stuff’s readers (that’s you, and you, and even you!) a chance to have their say. Your opinion matters,…

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We’re eagerly awaiting the next step in human exploration — which involves putting feet on Mars instead of things with tank treads. Before that can happen, we need to place those humans on a large explosive device and (relatively) safely send them into orbit. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon hopes to do just that, and this weekend is the company’s final unmanned test before human flights begin. Round Two The Crew Dragon’s previous test was on 20 April last year, an outing that didn’t end as expected. A leaking fluid (into the incorrect chamber) just prior to takeoff caused a reaction that…

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Win

Last year December, we set up a giveaway thanks to the folks at Brother. The prize(s)? A Brother Ink Tank DCP-T510W 3-in-1 multifunction printer and a P-touch PT-P710BT Cube label printer, valued at R5,000. And, now, it’s time for us to give this hamper away. We’re not sad to see it go, though, as it’s going to make our winner — and sadly, like the Highlander there can be only one — very happy indeed. Because that winner isn’t going to have to splash out on a new printer this year. Think of it as a late Christmas bonus, yeah? First,…

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Stop us if you’ve heard this one. Warner Bros. will soon use an AI system to “…enhance the greenlight process for film studios”. The AI will come courtesy of a partnership with Cinelytic Inc.,  a company which “…combines AI and cloud-based technologies to enable entertainment industry professionals to make faster, and better-informed, decisions throughout the content value chain.” We’re going to hell for this At this point there are all sorts of horrible things we could say about Warner Bros. We could lambaste them for not signing up the AI system before they attempted their ill-fated DC counterpart to the…

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