Author: Max Milella

As part of its HarmonyOS & New Products Launch stream, Huawei offered viewers a quick peak at its new flagship smartphone, the P50. Unfortunately, details on the phone were scarce, but we were treated to a pretty flashy slow-pan of the new flagship’s design. Peeking at the Huawei P50 As is the trend with modern smartphones, the design is effectively just a dolled up and upgraded version of the P40, and that’s not an insult. Both are look like incredibly sleek and stylish devices. The new edition is just like watching Tony Stark unveil a new Iron Man suit. More…

It’s a well-known fact at this point that modern smartphones are slippery. For example, as gorgeous, smooth, and bezel-free as Samsung’s S21 is, it really does handle like a wet bar of soap coated in grease when you’ve got it in your hands, thanks to the glass front in back. Accidents happen, and not everyone has the time to go to their local repair centre when they do, so Samsung is rolling out a new door-to-door smartphone repair service in South Africa. Samsung’s at your service “Samsung’s new ‘Door to Door’ service offers South Africans a convenient, hassle-free smartphone repair…

It seems like only yesterday that Eskom was announcing a return to Stage 2 load shedding. Because it was. The power “supplier” announced that thanks to breakdowns and planned maintenance, the country would be experiencing Stage 2 load shedding from 16:00 on Monday the 31at of May, to 5:00 this morning, the 1st of June. Now, Eskom’s made another announcement saying almost the same thing, with the added caveat that we should brace for load shedding for the rest of the week. Eskom: The Dark Night Returns “Due to further breakdowns of generating units… over the past 24 hours,” the…

Xiaomi’s always challenging itself to improve the way and speed at which you can charge its phones, whether it be through upgraded but familiar fast-charge chargers or room-wide wireless air-charging tech. The Chinese tech-maker has once again outdone itself, revealing two new “HyperCharge” solutions. One is a 200W wired charger, and the other is a 120W wireless one. Xiaomi’s charging in at breakneck speeds https://youtu.be/obff6ZdhisU Xiaomi introduced the new kit via a tweet, as well as a neat little clip on YouTube demonstrating the power of HyperCharge. According to the video, the 200W wired version can pump up a flat…

It’s no secret that cryptocurrency isn’t exactly what one would call a stable investment. Bitcoin in particular can turn on a dime in terms of its value, though it was having a pretty bumper year until this month. Now, if things keep going the way they are, the crytpo-coin might see its worst month since 2011. Bitcoin blues Bitcoin dropped down to its lowest this week on Friday, the 28th of May, says TechCentral. The cryptocurrency has lost 37% in value over this month, and if it continues to dip it’ll drop below its previous lowest point, which was back in…

Sony’s got a cool new pair of wireless earbuds in the works, and new leaks have revealed some very interesting tech on-board. Alongside LDAC codec support and an IPX4-rating for water and sweat resistance, the new WF-1000XM4s will have a brand new V1 chip specifically to enable next-level active noise cancellation. Sony’s super-buds The leaks for the 1000XM4s, provided by WinFuture, provide pretty much all the information we could want on the earbuds. Design-wise they’re stylish if pretty standard looking earbuds. For the moment, it looks like Sony will only be shipping them out in white and black, though a…

“Likes” have been an intrinsic part of the Facebook and Instagram experience for about as long as anyone cares to remember. However, conversation surrounding the more harmful experiences caused by “likes” (anxiety, self-esteem issues, etc.) has become more and more common. Instagram has experimented with giving its users the ability to hide “likes” on posts before, but now it and its parent app, Facebook, is rolling out the option in earnest. Instagram as you like it In an announcement post, Instagram explains how it and Facebook decided on adding the feature. “We tested hiding like counts to see if it…

What do you get when you mix the post-apocalypse with furry anthropomorphic creatures, an open-world, and a colour pallet so outrageous it would make even a unicorn abstract artist say, “That’s a bit much”? Biomutant. But style and premise alone do not make a game, and Biomutant, while competent, falls short on a few key fronts. Once upon a time, the world ended https://youtu.be/PKB1oNvXwDo For all intents and purposes, Biomutant starts strong, in terms of premise and presentation. Humans, being horrendously wasteful creatures, have effectively polluted themselves into non-existence. The world is now a bizarre fantasy post-apocalypse wasteland inhabited by…

Though the internet collectively is still waiting on yet to be announced “Super Switch” or “Switch Pro” console, Nintendo has confirmed that an upgraded version of the current handheld has been in the works. Said upgraded console may hit shelves in September this year, reports Bloomberg. Switch-ing on production According to Bloomberg, “people familiar with the matter” have revealed the new version of the console’s production and release date. Assemblers will apparently begin shipping the new models as early as July, though products could only be available to consumers by September or October. Production is said to peak sometime in Q4…

WhatsApp’s controversial privacy policy update has been circling the internet for a while now, and we think it’s safe to say that not many people (save for the Zuck himself) are happy with it. The conflict has resulted in a couple of things, including a mass exodus of users flocking to less privacy-scrapey platforms like Telegram. WhatsApp giveth and taketh away In response, WhatsApp’s been playing a game of chicken with its remaining users who have yet to accept the policy. At first the social media behemoth sternly warned that users unwilling to bend a knee would be booted off…