Author: Marcé

Brought to you by the guys who normally make PC gaming peripherals, these are the Opus wireless headphones. Razer teamed up with audio gurus THX to design a pair of headphones ready to pump out just about any audio you want and make it sound good.  The Razer Opus’ THX certification brings some impressive audio while adhering to the stringent sonic standards of the reputable AV brand. THX has been in the audio business since the early 1980s, so we know they’ve got some serious sound flex.  According to THX, the certification process is rigorous. “Developed to define a reference…

It looks like a leak just confirmed the name of this year’s Call of Duty instalment, but we’re also not saying it can’t change. Because… it needs to change. Well, at first it was just a leak, now Eurogamer has gone ahead and confirmed that this will be the title of the upcoming game: Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. Make sure to take a breath between ‘Ops’ and ‘War’ so you don’t stumble here.  First, a trusted Call of Duty leaker (how is this a thing?) tweeted a COD graphic featuring the new title, albeit one that looks…

Chinese phone-maker Vivo just teased a new smartphone, complete with a gimbal-like camera module on the back. The video, posted on Weibo, features the camera module, with a creepy cyclops-esque camera sensor set atop a robotic Doc Ock-armed device. It’s creepy as hell, but we’re still excited to see Vivo’s new creation come to life.  The upcoming flagship phone, called the Vivo X50, features a periscope telephoto lens, two normal-looking lenses and an abnormally large module that looks like the primary camera. Even more wild, is the fact that this large lens can rotate and turn, as if on a…

As face-to-face meetings start to phase out of existence, more focus is being placed on digital video conferencing. And not just the software, but hardware too. Which is why Asus announced new video conferencing hardware designed to run Google Meet meetings. This includes a small computer aimed at running the software to make video or voice calls, an external speaker to hear your colleagues (or fam) and a separate camera. Although it is primarily aimed at office-conferencing situations, the kit will be perfect for at-home workers who want a proprietary setup just for conferencing, so the laptop can be free…

Gather the millennials and the toast, because our favourite green fruit is now available as an app from Nedbank. You might not want to spread this one on a fresh piece of toasted bread, though you can buy some normal bread directly from the app.  Nedbank announced that it is launching “a tech-based solution that revolutionises the way South Africans shop and sell”. Which just means that it’s launched a new eCommerce app filled with a variety of online shopping options, specially designed for South Africans.  “Today’s banks have an opportunity and a responsibility, to do far more for their…

“We expect that our business will inevitably be affected,” Huawei spoke out about more stringent sanctions, barring any international company that trades with the US from producing chips for the Chinese telecom. The amendments made by the US Department of Commerce will have an adverse effect on Huawei’s business, and maybe the whole industry.  Last week, the US announced a new set of regulations specifically targeted at Huawei, the second-largest smartphone producer in the world. These regulations would ban Huawei from using US software and hardware in certain strategic semiconductor processes. Who will be affected? This not only affects companies…

Hold onto your hats, because Facebook (the parent company that owns its namesake, Instagram and WhatsApp) acquired the GIF-sharing platform called Giphy. The platform is widely regarded as boasting the finest collection of GIFs on this thing we call the internet. Which, in itself, isn’t really all that important. But it does mean that things at Giphy are about to change. Most of all, we’re sad about the potential loss of integration with Twitter.  According to an Axios report, Facebook has coughed up $400 million for the platform, which it plans to integrate directly into Instagram now the deal is…

Fitbit’s apparently going to make ventilators now? The current pandemic is bringing out the good samaritan in everyone, even tech and hardware companies. Fitbit, which was bought by Google late last year, announced that it will start producing ventilators. You know, to fight the good fight and all that. The company chief James Park told

If you could have any superpower, would it be flight? Invisibility? Maybe X-ray vision? If your choice is the latter, you’re in luck. All you have to do is buy a OnePlus 8 Pro and use a new camera filter to see through things. It’s the wackiest accidental smartphone feature ever invented, but luckily it’s not particularly powerful The OnePlus 8 Pro’s main camera’s got a few filters to choose from, and a newly added Photochrom filter can reportedly see through thin plastics and clothing to a certain degree.   can see through certain kinds of plastic. If you’ve got…

Huawei’s not even slightly phased by the worldwide lockdown. Before we knew it, the company had announced a new range of devices called the P40’s. The baby brother of which turns out to be a real mid-range contender called the P40 Lite.  So, despite the ongoing pandemic and a trade war between China and the US resulting in an embargo on Huawei, the P40 Lite is its second technical showpiece on how it is possible to move forward without Google. The first was the Huawei Nova 5T, which was released into the country in December, and now we’ve got the…