Author: Marcé

The last thing we expected with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus is a spike in preppers. Doomsday preppers used to be in the minority, filling up bunkers with canned food and guns. Now every Jan, Piet en sy vrou are buying ludicrous amounts of household items. Stores are running out of toilet paper, sanitizer, baby wipes and sometimes even food items. Luckily there are a few ways to get your groceries to you without even de-reclining your lazy boy. Also, you shouldn’t be in your lazy boy right now — go work you lazy boi (or girl) Most of…

The national satellite TV service, DStv, has decided to open a few channels to stream for free on its digital platform DStv Now. The best part? You don’t even need to be a subscriber to access the free content.  There is a catch though — all the channels DStv decided to make available are news channels. Now, before someone calls ‘boooring’ from the back, get this. Making these channels available is done in a bid to keep people informed about the current coronavirus outbreak. The best information is free information. Along with BBC World, CNN, eNCA, SABC News, Newzroom Afrika…

Calling all eBucks addicts, because FNB has announced that it’ll now partner with Mr D Food app to bring you even more rewards.

Microsoft's Bing has launched a coronavirus tracker The recent corona-pandemic has everyone on alert. It’s not every day we find ourselves literally in the midst of a Plague Inc game. The continuous spread has had an adverse effect on everything from schools, to universities and businesses. This weekend, Microsoft announced a new live dashboard tool

Today, the Competition Commission announced that Vodacom has worked with it to come up with price reductions and increased transparency. Especially when it comes to data pricing and customer understanding.  Vodacom has agreed to a two-year reduction strategy that will see up to a 30% reduction in data prices. Apparently, they cannot give actual figures at the moment, as it may affect pricing decisions made by its competitors. Which is understandable.  We did get an example, though. Vodacom has announced that a 1GB monthly bundle may drop to R99 from R149 — and this will include VAT. While 100 bucks…

If you haven’t yet, it is about time to start researching alternative energy solutions for your house. The future of electricity in South Africa looks dull indeed. And while Eskom decides who gets to flip the switch when load shedding strikes, the sun is beaming down free energy from above. Just to bring you into the loop: the sun emits about 3.86 x 1026 watts of energy. So add 24 zeros to the end of that number — that’s how much energy the sun beams out at any moment. Although most of it floats out into space, about 1.74 x…

The Nintendo PlayStation console just sold for $360 000 at auction If you believe the myths (and you obviously should) the only Nintendo PlayStation console is real. And it works, according to sources. But the only one of these consoles in existence was recently sold in an auction for a total of $360,000. The buyer

The brand-spankin’ new Galaxy S20 range launches in South Africa today. Here we have the bigboi S20 Ultra looking mighty fiiine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u34aEZyGCc That beautiful display is a 6.9in AMOLED with a 120Hz refresh rate at 1080p resolution. It’s powered by a Snapdragon 865 processor with 12GB of RAM. Here we have the 128GB storage variant. The big moneymaker, however, is the massive camera module. It’s got a 12MP Ultra wide f/2.2; a 108MP Wide-angle f/1.8; a 48MP Telephoto f/3.5; and a Depth Vision lense. When it comes to zoom, it features 10x Hybrid-Optical zoom and can go up to 100x…

In recent months, something hit the world of tech as nothing has before. The Novel Coronavirus broke out in China and practically halted the economy. No more factories. No more manufacturing. you know, to keep people safe from the fast-spreading virus. 

The Mars revolution can come now, and our Martian overlord Elon Musk can pretty much set up base and prepare for interplanetary conquest. Because we’ve found the perfect laptop to take with us: the Alienware Area-51m. Oh boy, what a pretty machine — we got the Area-51m in Lunar White, which is a sleek, matte white variant. On this white chassis, the trademark Alienware design style looks hella good. Pair this with RGB, some brilliant internals and decent upgradability, and you get this beast.  Fitted with an Intel i7-9700 and one of Nvidia’s monstrous RTX graphics cards, it basically burnt…