Author: Brett Venter

LG South Africa will embark on a journey the company hasn’t undertaken in South Africa before — the South Korean appliance maker is setting up shop. It’ll mark a new way for the company to do business, “bringing optimism and convenience straight to South African consumers”, according to the PR announcement. There’s not much change for South African customers. Another avenue for purchase is opening, specifically on the local LG website. You’ll still be able to visit showrooms and stores around SA. Or you could grab your tech directly from the source. Shop LG LG Electronics SA’s subsidiary president Jinkook…

At this point, it would be more remarkable if Samsung could keep a secret. The South Korean company’s next flagship tablet, the Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra (and the S10 Plus) has turned up on the Chinese regulator’s website, indicating that they’re heading to market sooner rather than later. It’s about time, if that’s the case, because Samsung’s newest tablet could also be described as… late. Typically a refresh would show up about mid-year but we’re past that point and the Tab S10 Ultra and friends have yet to appear. It’s not unexpected — the slates are confirmed to be delayed…

Fujifilm’s range of Instax cameras of late has offered a weird and wonderful mix of tech. The new Instax Wide 400 takes a few steps back by going completely retro, serving up an instant camera that does just that. It focuses on quick snaps with no second chances and is all the better for it. This makes the R3,500 price tag a little hard to bite down on. Three and a half grand for a low-tech camera that runs on AA batteries stings a bit. Add an extra two hundred bucks every time you want to fire off ten images…

If you’ve spent any time in the amateur astronomy space in the past few years, you might have come across the name SVBony. Even then, the SVBony SV202 8×32 ED binoculars might well have escaped your notice because… well, they’re brand new. But Stuff has been mucking around with a pair for the past few weeks, exploring the wonder that is extra-low dispersion (ED) glass. It’s never been out of the question for Stuff to review binoculars, telescopes, and other optics. The tricky bit is laying hands on it in the first place. SVBony is a relative newcomer on the…

It’s not a good time to be a website operator who isn’t all that keen on being replaced by AI. Google’s AI Overviews ‘feature’, which throws up summaries from websites, is powered by the same section of the company that includes websites in Google’s search results. According to Bloomberg, opting out of the ‘AI’ side of the equation will also opt sites out of the actually useful function provided by the search giant. In other words, if websites are unwilling to let their sites be crawled for AI purposes they’ll also be left out of Google’s search results. It might…

If you’ve been to London in Britain (there are plenty of others) lately, you can feel secure in the knowledge that you were in one of the most surveilled cities outside of Asia (and Moscow). The British city, as of 2021, had around 700,000 cameras and the number might be as high as a solid million. That’s still nothing on Chinese cities but the Brits might have a way around that — flying cameras. The country’s Civil Aviation Authority has announced several trial projects that will introduce drones to the skies above London and other cities in Britain. Planned to…

If you’re paying attention to more than the company’s hardware news, you’ll know that Google is in for a bumpy ride in the next few months. The search giant was recently convicted of being… well, a search giant. But illegally. A judge in the States ruled that Google has illegally monopolised the search market, in a similar manner to what happened to Microsoft and its monopoly on desktop operating systems back in the early 2000s. In fact, the recent Google ruling holds that the company violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, the same one that Microsoft was stung with some two…

We go over this every year and it’s almost boring now. Yes, the Galaxy Fold 6 is the best folding smartphone Samsung has made to date. The tricky bit of this statement is pointing out that there wasn’t all that much to do to get there. Samsung’s newest foldable doesn’t take chances because it doesn’t have to. It might not have the capability. We’re not sure that it’s possible to improve folding smartphones or even flagship smartphones without some radical change in what they do. Everything that could be added to these devices would only complicate what is already a…

Well, well, would you look at the time? We’re… late? How are we late? Bugger. Well, rather than quoting a famous wizard we’ll just get on with it, yeah? This is the August-September 2024 issue of Stuff Magazine. It’s on shelves and in online stores all over the place, including right here on Stuff. But it’s not about availability so much as it is about what’s inside this issue that you should look out for.  As ever, there are loads of products in the August-September 2024 of South Africa’s best technology magazine to drool over. So many of them, in…

Remember back in the pandemic when the only way to see your coworkers was to force them to turn their cameras on in the Zoom meeting? Those circumstances made the online meeting app one of the most profitable of that whole stupid time but since we’ve been allowed outside again its fortunes have altered somewhat. This is at least partly what prompted the development of Zoom Docs, a feature that integrates AI into the online meeting app. It’s also the sort of productivity suite we’ve come to expect from everyone from Microsoft to Google, so there’s far more competition for…