Author: Brett Venter

WhatsApp has had itself a fairly busy year. When its user numbers aren’t climbing to Facebook-like levels it has been getting new features, like groups with an administrator and a whole lot less reply-spam to group video calling, like we’re in some 1990s tech future. And we could be in for a new more changes soon. The folks over at XDA Developers have spotted a few features that may be making their way to the Android version of the popular chat app. A new Dark Mode, which is exactly what it sounds like, is thought to be on the way,…

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October 2018 is here (if you’re measuring life in magazine time), which means that we’ve got a brand new issue of Stuff Magazine on shelves everywhere. On that note, if you happen to not see Stuff at your favourite store, be sure to let us know please. We will want to have words with someone about that. If, as is more likely the case, you do find it on your nearest shelf then you’ve got a whole lot to look forward to this month.  Like the 100 most desirable objects we could think of — whether it’s a high-end LP…

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There is plenty to see and do at this year’s Comic Con Africa expo being held at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and International Convention Centre — most of it involving spending copious amounts of money on geeky things — but we also spent far too much time hanging around the video game demo areas. That is, in addition to checking out the amazing work in Artist’s Alley, the ground floor merchandise money-pit and the upper floor board game and esports sections. One of the demos we got hands-on with was Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the third instalment of the…

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We’ve seen a fair number of self-driving cars in our time but a self-driving motorcycle? That’s a new one, but it’s one that BMW has gone and created. BMW Motorrad has been working on an autonomous motorcycle for the past two years, a secretive project that has borne enough fruit for them to finally be able to show it off. The result? A motorbike that can start itself up, take off, take corners, and then come to a stop better than some riders do. Actually seeing it in action, as is the case with the video below, is impressive in…

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Up till now you’ve been happily joining Nintendo Switch multiplayer games whenever you like, dropping into blue-shell-spitting games on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or painting the heck out of opponents in Splatoon 2. That time, friends, is coming to an end (and we can’t say that we weren’t warned about it, either). Nintendo’s paid-for Switch Online service will launch on 18 September. https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1039877541790670848 What this means is that you’re going to have to get your hands on a subscription from Nintendo if you are planning on any more raucous online shenanigans after that date. This is the first time that Nintendo…

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In what is going to be a blow to Marvel fans attending the inaugural Comic Con Africa being held this weekend at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and International Convention Centre — Marvel’s Falcon, Anthony Mackie, is unable to attend. We learned this information at a pre-event media briefing today at the Comic Con Africa venue, via a message from Mackie himself — seemingly filmed at the airport. Mackie’s travel plans have been interrupted by Hurricane Florence, which has grounded large numbers of flights out of the States. He seemed genuinely bummed not to be able to make the trip and…

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Okay Apple, when we said that some folks might like to watch the 2018 iPhone unveiling on social media yesterday, we were only kidding. But Apple, it seems, isn’t. For the first time ever, Apple’s entire keynote presentation will be streamed to Twitter — so now you won’t even have to leave your favoured timeline in order to keep up with Apple’s plans for the next few months. Getting access to the Twitter stream is easy enough, if you manage to spot the Apple ad (which is all that the @Apple account tweets, apparently), you just have to ‘Like’ or…

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Pi. The magic number. The explainer of circles. The most popular teeny tiny hobbyist computer system in existence, if it’s Raspberry-flavoured. The stuff of dreams, if your dream happens to be a very small home theatre PC or, if you have some programming talent and engineering skill, a very small orbital satellite. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could make someone’s dreams come true? Stuff, along with RS Components, is giving away a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Premium Kit (worth just over R1,050) to one lucky winner and, as usual, all we’re asking you to do is fill in an…

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Starting off Apple’s 2018 keynote presentation was Apple’s Watch Series 4, because it’d be silly for them to show the Series 3 again. We’ve long been fans of the company’s slick wrist-wear, even if we can’t get the LTE version of the device here in South Africa (because local operators seem allergic to eSIMs). Even if we only have the GPS version here, it’s mighty fine as it is. But Apple reckons they’ve made it even better. The screen’s the thing Apple’s gone and done away with the bezels on the Watch Series 4, adding a bigger curve to the…

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