Author: Marcé

The South African Twitter community is still in denial over MTN discontinuing their ‘unlimited free Twitter’ option late in September. But it’s time to come back from the corner of denial known as Instagram, because Twitter really cares about its users. https://twitter.com/MTNza/status/1043410260474687493 Following the most recent update, the Twitter app for iOS and Android includes a ‘Data Saver’ mode, which will allow you to scroll mindlessly using significantly less data. Other than free MTN Twitter, the only way to save data on the social media platform was to either install Twitter Lite or rely on the mobile web version. Both…

Instagram was down for this morning and half the world’s smartphone-using population didn’t know where to post pictures of their lightly fried kale anymore. This according to reports on (other) social media platforms from users who were unable to access the image-sharing service. The outage was pretty wide-spread across the globe and included South Africa. This after ex-Facebook exec, Adam Mosseri, took over the boss’s desk following the resignation of the two founders. The founders allegedly left after ongoing disagreements with Facebook head honcho, Mark Zuckerberg. https://twitter.com/Iam_Damylola/status/1047399717792047105 Instagram parent company Facebook has had a pretty torrid week, between facing the fallout…

Razer has announced their rather sleek-looking new Sila wireless gaming router. The green-and-black gaming gear maker claims that Sila is the fastest gaming-focused router on the scene. Riiiiight. Okay, it’s possibly true. We’ll have to get our hands on one to be sure but Razer’s first router has a substantial amount of tech built in that makes their claim… pretty reasonable.  WiFi name: Sila Sila was designed to reduce lag and interruptions when you’re gaming or streaming Netflix. Razer is introducing their proprietary FasTrack QoS system that is designed to prioritise traffic according to the device used. Which means Sila…

The company renowned for making headlines for all the wrong reasons these days, Facebook, has named Adam Mosseri the new head of Instagram. He succeeds founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, who announced their departure earlier this month, amid rumours that ongoing clashes with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg were largely to blame for their decision to leave the company they started. Before this promotion, Mosseri was vice president of product at Instagram. He was placed at Insta in May of this year after CEO Mark Zuckerberg restructured the Facebook executive team. “We are thrilled to hand over the reins to…

Humans are spoiled for choice with video-on-demand (VOD) services like Netflix and Showmax. You can choose what you want to watch, when you want to watch it. But soon you could choose how you’d like an episode of the dystopian sci-fi anthology series, Black Mirror, to end. Should you wield such power? Netflix is reportedly working on interactive episodes, according to a new report from Bloomberg. They are creating a series of projects that will allow viewers to control the storyline in a TV show or movie, most notably (at least) one in an upcoming episode of Black Mirror. We…

For anything and everything camera and photography related, Germany’s Photokina is the event to watch. This year’s event had plenty of fascinating pic(k)s. These are the best of them. Zeiss’ ZX1 is Lightroom-compatible Zeiss unveiled an Android-based compact camera capable of running Lightroom last week. Talk about an all-in-one system. The ZX1 has a 37.4MP full-frame CMOS sensor and a 35mm/f2 lens in a compact body. The camera has 512GB of internal storage but has no memory card slot for expandable memory… still, as that’s bigger than any of the SD cards we own, we’re not complaining. It mixes physical…

If you’ve been in the market for an Android One smartphone, Nokia’s got you covered with the Nokia 5.1. Their new mid-ranger is now available in South Africa from Vodacom and other key retailers. The Nokia 5.1 is powered by a Mediatek Helio P18 chipset, 2GB of RAM and is equipped with 16GB of internal storage. It runs Google’s Android One platform, an as-close-to-a-Google-Pixel Android experience as you’re going to get without importing one of Google’s own handsets. The short version? A lot less bloat is involved.  It also has a microSD storage expansion slot, so you’ll have enough space…

By now, everyone should know that Facebook uses your personal information to personalise ads especially for you — but instead of feeling flattered, people feel their privacy has been invaded. With good reason… because now we know that if you choose to (sensibly) add two-factor authentication via your phone number, Facebook uses that same phone number to help target ads at you. For example, if you include your mobile number in your profile, and you also provided your number to an online store, the two numbers can be matched so the store can identify you as a customer. You know…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAtebIYU85U Colourfully animated battle royale sensation Fortnite has ended its fifth season — which means the game is due for a whole range of new updates. Horrifying new updates to be exact. What can we expect from the (now-live) Season 6? Obviously a Halloween-themed season that’s packed with invisibility, new skins, new locations and pets. Because October is literally around the corner and 31 October is that important costume-wearing day.  Darkness Rises Season 6 is dubbed ‘Darkness Rises’, and features the well-known 100 unlockable levels for its Battle Pass, which will gift players with a variety of spooky items, like a werewolf…

Time to delete all those unplayed PlayStation Plus games you’re keeping around for no reason, because the Red Dead Redemption 2 installation will fill your console to the brim. And it’s going to be even more painful if you’re the type to download your games.  RDR2 is finally dropping next month, and a new picture of the PS4 Pro bundle box has revealed some of what’s in store for the coming launch. The box refers to a “timed exclusive for 30 days” and mentions online content. So PlayStation users will have access to some unique content, and now we also…