Author: Brett Venter

Samsung will, with the launch of its Galaxy S25 Edge, add another face to its lineup of annual smartphone headliners. Plenty is known about the smartphone, but not as much as we’d be privy to following an official launch. Since Samsung is known to be prepping for a reveal, it’s just a question of when we’ll see it. Weirdly, our next hint is how much it’ll cost. S25 Edge of tomorrow South Korean pricing for the Galaxy S25 Edge is already kicking around the internet, showing that the smartphone will find itself sitting above the S25+ but below the S25…

Apple may have to step up its neural processor game. Cortical Labs has announced and put on sale its very first biological computer, the CL1. What makes it unique is its use of human neurons as part of its architecture. You read that correctly. Human brain cells form part of the CL1 computer, allowing owners to run code on… well, us. If you were looking for further signs that the gap between human and machine is narrowing, this is it. CL1 of those The human neurons don’t live in isolation. They are, for lack of a better word, alive. The…

Samsung’s Galaxy Flip 7 has come out to play in a set of new renders from noted leakers OnLeaks and Android Headlines. It’s the second such leak for the upcoming smartphone — the first showed a secondary screen much the same as that seen in the Galaxy Flip 6. The second leak… not so much. Gone are the borders keeping the display separate from the dual rear cameras. Instead, the upper part of the outer surface is all display, with cutouts for the camera lenses. Lucky number Flip 7 It might not seem like much, but it’s at least a…

Google went ahead and ruined its search function a few years ago, so what’s another boneheaded decision or two, right? The search giant has begun testing a new AI Mode for its Search product, something it reckons users have been asking for. Really, Google? Specifically, the company said, “we’ve heard from power users that they want AI responses for even more of their searches.” To meet that need, it has launched a new Labs experiment that “expands what AI Overviews can do with more advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities.” The idea is to let users ask more complicated questions,…

Mobile World Congress is a place for the weird and wonderful (with a portable focus). This year, Samsung Display turned up at MWC 2025 and started to Flex on the other attendees. Specifically, it showed off a bunch of its upcoming display tech, including a prototype games console called the Flex Gaming. That wasn’t all, of course. A prototype OLED mobile display that more than doubles the brightness of what we’ve already got — from 2,000 to 5,000 nits — was perhaps the headliner, but it was joined by something called a Flexible Briefcase, a stretchable display, and other developments…

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 has finally been made official. As is usual for Activision of late, you’ll want to buy the Digital Deluxe edition to get a character you got as a free unlockable in the PC version of the original THPS 3 — the Doom Slayer. The Tony Hawk skateboarding series has landed on tougher times of late, which prompted Activision to release a compilation of the first two games in 2020. At the time, the company said it would gauge interest in seeing Pro Skater 3 and 4 arrive in a similar bundle. It seems the rerelease…

Not content with its standard Copilot, Microsoft has unveiled Dragon Copilot, an artificial intelligence assistant specifically for healthcare professionals. It won’t perform diagnosis or anything especially complicated of that nature, but it will perform administration tasks so doctors can get on with being… doctors. Microsoft makes Dragon Copilot sound like the best thing since sliced modem cables, but that’s the company’s job. The coolest thing about it seems to be the name, while the rest of the AI assistant’s functions aren’t dissimilar to existing software suites for medical professionals. Medical Microsoft The major buzzword here is AI, which is supposed…

Checkers’ Sixty60 delivery app, launched in the midst of the pandemic shutdown in South Africa, has changed the face of shopping in the country. It continues to do so, expanding its app-based delivery service to the other grocery store under the company banner — Shoprite. The move shouldn’t be a surprise. There’s gold in them thar hills, after all. That isn’t the only change afoot for the service, either. The Shoprite Group has also announced an expansion of its Sixty60 services to Huawei’s mobile phone platform (via a new web store), which should net it more than 2.5 million (potential)…

HMD has taken time at Mobile World Congress 2025 to introduce a new set of earbuds with a unique feature. The brand’s new Amped Buds include a massive (for in-ear buds) battery in the case, capable of wirelessly topping up your smartphone. Your phone will have to support wireless charging, of course, but it’s still a world first for… anyone. Not just the brand that resurrected and is now sunsetting Nokia in favour of its own name. Whether reverse-wireless charging in an earbuds case is a good idea will depend entirely on you. Extra-Amped Buds HMD’s Amped Buds reside in…

It was only a matter of time before solar-powered tech wound up in our pockets and backpacks. Garmin already does it with a range of its wearables, but several instances of light-powered tech have turned up at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Notably, Lenovo has shown off a proof-of-concept for a solar-enabled notebook, and Infinix, a Chinese brand, has also demoed a concept smartphone with the ability to draw power from light. Before you go off all impressed, these are both still concept devices and probably won’t launch in the next cycle. Solar, but so far away Lenovo debuted its…