Author: Marcé

My gamertag is more useful than a business card. I write about the tech industry, hardware, software, games, and motoring.

MTN gave a nail-biting demonstration at the Gerotek race track yesterday of the possibilities of 5G in the real world. In case you haven’t been paying attention, 5G is the next evolution in mobile data. We had 2G, then 3G, then 4G/LTE (though this one was a bit contentious, with the two becoming synonymous, even though LTE didn’t necessarily achieve textbook 4G speeds) and now we have 5G. In short, it’s a faster standard that will let operators move more data between our devices and their infrastructure more rapidly. Why does this matter? Not only will it allow us to…

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Free quality audio content? Hells yeah. Google has finally released its own Google Podcasts app, a dedicated place to enjoy your weekly podcasts by Casper de Vries or to find personalised recommendations. It’s only available on Android, but with good reason. Some Android users may remember Google Listen, the company’s first attempt at a podcast app which was shut down in 2012. Since then podcasts have been poorly supported by Google, who decided to add a few half-hearted podcast-related features into apps like Google Search and Google Play Music. If you wanted a decent podcast platform on Android, you were…

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Not only will South Africa play host to the first ever African Comic Convention this September, where attendees can rub shoulders with actors Jason Momoa and Kevin Sussman, but local cosplayers attending the event will have the chance to compete for some great prizes, including the chance to compete in an international cosplay competition in Chicago. Reed Exhibitions Africa, the company behind the event, has announced that Comic Con Africa will be hosting the African Championship of Cosplay. The overall winner will represent Africa in the 2019 C2E2 Crown Championship of Cosplay in Chicago. The top prize includes a return…

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The Electronic Entertainment Expo – or E3 for short – is the world’s biggest gaming show and in what feels like the blink of an eye it’s all over for 2018. Each year’s event shows us all the huge games we’ll be playing in the future, or right now… Eager to see which games we’ll be lusting after later this year and beyond and which one’s we’re playing already? Here’s a look at all of the biggest E3 announcements. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo Switch) Just how “ultimate” is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for Nintendo Switch? It has every single…

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Become a Netflix-and-chill pro (we’re not offering any advice on the ‘and-chill’ side of the equation, you’re on your own there) with our streaming masterclass. Like The Simpsons and deep-fried Bar-Ones, Netflix has hidden depths lurking beneath its simple exterior. We don’t blame you for missing them — after all, it’s so easy to just fire up another episode of Archer (they’re only twenty minutes long anyway) instead. But a little tinkering with settings and some third-party software will let you personalise your binge-watching experience in ways that don’t initially seem possible. From manually ordering your ‘My List’ to delving into…

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Fortnite: Battle Royale, the last-man standing shooter with animated, dancing John Wicks and pink bunny costumes, is available for download on our favourite portable console — the Nintendo Switch. We’ve had some rumours about this, so the announcement didn’t come as a surprise, but only a day after the official announcement by Epic Games at the E3 conference, the game is available for free to owners of Nintendo’s Switch console. This after Epic decided to enter the competitive gaming world with style, having opted to push a whole lot of cash into their eSports entrance. Playing on the Switch will…

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The battle royale, last-man-standing gaming mode has taken the world by (literal, shrinking) storm the past year, with H1Z1 and Player Unknown Battlegrounds paving the way to a world phenomenon that will even make its way to Call of Duty Black Ops 4 later this year. It shouldn’t be that hard to outlive all of your opponents in Fortnite? Right? Well, turns out it is. But you don’t have to wash out with all of the cannon fodder every time. We’ve compiled a few sneaky tricks that will help you last a bit longer next time you drop in, and it…

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How do you make one of the world’s most recognisable and desirable cars even better? In the case of the BMW i8, you make the roof retractable and offer it in a fetching new coppery hue. That’s exactly what BMW’s done with the i8 Roadster which went on sale in South Africa this month. We had a chance to drive one, and we figured we’d take you along for the ride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ucA1lc-IY BMW i8 Roadster c/o BMW South Africa. Shot on an iPhone X c/o iStore, Samsung Galaxy S9+ c/o Samsung, and GoPro Hero 5 Black. Edited on an iPad Pro…

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You’re probably knee-deep in The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset at the moment, but ready your drive space for two new Elder Scrolls additions, freshly announced by Bethesda Softworks at E3 2018. VI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkFdqqyI8y4 Bethesda officially announced the sixth instalment in its long-running Elder Scrolls series, known at this point only as The Elder Scrolls VI. The teaser video is as cryptic as they could possibly make it, giving away pretty much nothing. What is present is a flyover of (what we guess is) a small fragment of the environment. There is one thing we do know — the new Elder Scrolls…

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Many game streamers already use Facebook Live to stream their favourite pastime out to the digital world. Now Facebook has launched a dedicated hub for streamers, called Gaming Video, that sorts streams by the game titles you already follow. Game streaming has gained traction as more and more people have begun spectating online. This has given players the online platform to become more than just gamers, but community leaders. Good ol’ Facebook newly-launched Gaming Video compiles game streams in a central location where spectators can search for certain games, or follow their favourite games. Front and centre in the hub are popular titles…

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