Author: Brett Venter

Apple’s Project Titan, a long-rumoured and speculated-upon attempt by the company to design and launch its own electric vehicle, has concluded. That’s according to a Bloomberg report which claims that the EV project has been shuttered and staff involved have been moved to other tasks. According to the report, some of the engineers involved have been retasked to work on generative AI for the company. It’s almost a pity, knowing that we’re unlikely to see a self-driving EV from Apple (with a R2 million starting price tag), but given the number of delays to the decade-long speculative project, perhaps it’s…

We’ve often said that nobody does OLED better than LG. This remained true during our time with the company’s OLED evo 55CS3 4K TV set as it proved that we’ll let a few things slide if we’re allowed to spend time in front of one of these screens. You shouldn’t expect perfection from a R21,000 TV from any brand and LG’s offering is no exception. Still, the focus has been placed where it matters most. The panel is the main thing and if there’s nothing else you take from this review, know that this one is splendid. The semi-affordable price…

The Energizer Hard Case P28K, revealed at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year, hasn’t been designed specifically for load shedding but it’ll handle the task just fine. A distant sibling of 2019’s Energizer Power Max P18K Pop, which also debuted at MWC and was the first smartphone we might have described as ‘girthy’. The Power Max P18K had one notable feature to thank for its thickness around the middle — an 18,000mAh battery. The Hard Case P28K, if you’re good at extrapolating numbers, has a similar feature. A 28,000mAh battery adorns its back, offering at least a week of uptime.…

Vodacom, in addition to raising prices this week, is also heading back to court. The ‘Please Call Me’ matter involving Kenneth Nkosana Makate, which saw the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) hand down a weighty judgment earlier this month, isn’t over. The mobile service provider and technology giant has applied for leave to appeal the Makate judgment in South Africa’s Constitutional Court, saying it believes “…the judgment and order are fundamentally flawed.” Vodacom’s reasoning Vodacom said, “It is apparent from the dissenting judgment of the SCA that the majority judgment overlooked or ignored many of the issues between the parties…

Google has teamed up with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an American NGO dedicated to… well, the environment. It’s right there in the name. The pair have come up with MethaneSAT, a system of satellites and artificial intelligence that can detect farts from space. Okay, fine, it can technically detect burps as well, but it’s not the product’s aim. You can still have Taco Bell, onions, pork sausages, or whatever else it is that makes you pass gas. Yes, your poo-powered tractor is probably also safe (for now). Google and the EDF have their eyes on large game. Google’s gas…

There’s a reason why Samsung charges more for its Ultra handsets than any other phone (besides the folding ones) in its stable and the Galaxy S24 Ultra is no different. This is the very pinnacle of Samsung’s hardware for 2024 and, therefore, it’s also the best Android phone to launch this year. And it’s only February. We’re guessing on that whole ‘best Android phone this year’ thing, obviously, but history has shown that Samsung usually wins the race early in the year. Smartphone releases have produced some diminishing returns for the South Korean tech maker of late, however. Sure, it’s…

The Mouse Company is attempting to make online advertising whimsical by launching Disney’s Magic Words. Instead of a karaoke feature for kids, it’s a method for making advertising served alongside streaming video content better suit the mood of what’s on-screen. If you guessed that this is powered by artificial intelligence, you were probably paying attention to the headline. Well done. It’s not much of a blind guess, either, as every second new feature launched since 1 January 2023 has been backed by the technology. Here’s how Disney’s version of it will work. Disney worry me In brief, Disney’s Magic Words…

GoPro, purveyors of excellent action cameras, intends to release the perfect companion to its extreme sports hardware — a helmet. But not just any helmet, though if you’re strapping a Hero 12 Black to your chest you probably should wear one of those too. The company will, according to GoPro’s Christopher Clark, be launching a “tech-enable[d]” helmet as soon as 2025. It won’t stop there, either. It intends to give other companies similar technological skills when the time is right. GoPro showing Forcite The action cam company is in the middle of acquiring Forcite, an Australian motorcycle helmet company. The…

Hang around the Stuff offices for any length of time and you’ll learn that we’ve got loads of time for Fuji’s X-T series. The Fujifilm X-T5 is no different. It’s the camera used to perform most of Stuff’s photography (except in the case of this review, because we’ve yet to figure out how to make a camera take its own photo without involving a mirror). There’s a reason for that and it’s not just “because we have one in the office”. Honestly, it’s in action so often that it barely has time to cool down. It’s a good thing that…

Skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen, the man credited with inventing the most basic of skateboarding tricks (like the ollie, the kickflip, the heelflip, the impossible, and more) is lending his name to a new augmented reality skating game. Rodney Mullen’s Skatrix is in development at Niantic, the company responsible for Pokémon Go and other AR titles. Skatrix is also being made by developer Reality Crisis and will launch on Android and iOS devices. If that was all it wouldn’t be such a massive deal but the game is also headed to “supported mixed reality and spatial computing headsets”. That means the…