Author: Max Milella

Anyone who’s played Grand Theft Auto Online knows that, brilliant game as it is (particularly compared to the competition), it takes a dog’s age to load up. A PC player who goes by t0st went out of their way to solve the issue themselves with a mod, and also posted details as to why load times were so arduous and how they sped them by up to 70%. Rockstar took note of t0st’s fix, and now plans to implement the correction officially. Load up on guns, bring your friends T0st set out to make the fix after noticing that loading GTA 5’s online…

According to a report by Reuters, India is going scorched earth on cryptocurrency, planning to introduce a bill criminalizing the mining, buying, selling, or even simply having the digital asset in your possession. Crypt-no-currency The bill gives cryptocurrency holders a 6 month grace period to liquidate their assets. After which, a senior government official told Reuters, they would face repercussions. If this bill were to become law (which it probably will considering Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “comfortable majority” in parliament), India would have even stricter cryptocurrency laws than China, who bans mining and trading but not possession. Reuters’ source didn’t specify what…

Tymebank, a digital bank, launched back in 2018 as South Africa’s first-ever digital-only bank. Now its got some big things in the works: expanding overseas, and its own credit card. Tyme Abroad According to MyBroadband, Tyme co-founder Coen Jonker explained the first step for TymeBank’s international expansion is in the Philippines, a move it would be making in partnership with Philippine conglomerate JG Summit. Alongside the UK based Apis Growth Fund II, JG Summit Holdings recently invested R1.6 billion into the bank. “We are almost ready to submit our licence application. We will launch a bank in the Philippines,” said Jonker.…

American construction company Mighty Buildings has announced that it plans to build what it’s calling the “world’s first planned community of 3D printed homes,” in Rancho Mirage, California. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen 3D printed homes, but the company boasts that this is the “world’s first planned community of 3D printed homes,”. The project will take $15 million to complete. Mighty fine work Mighty Buildings is all about sustainability and innovation, and this new project of theirs shows it. The community will be 15 homes spread across five acres of land. Each 1,450 square-foot house will sit in…

Now that the world has tentatively opened itself up a bit more than it was last year, things are moving again. People are going back into offices, meetings, work from home hubs, and so on. We’re on the go, and so are our laptops, notebooks, Chromebooks, and all their techy trimmings. That’s why you need a good bag, and these are our favourites. Black Thule Accent Laptop Bag 15.6  R2,999 | Thule Store SA The Thule Accent 15.6” laptop bag is a versatile, 2-in-1 briefcase that easily converts into a backpack for business travel. Most people know that if you want a…

It’s well known by now that Google Chrome isn’t particularly kind with its memory usage (ie, it’s a RAM-glutton). Fortunately, this is being addressed in the newest update to the browser. Chrome’s making things easier for your PC A post on the Chromium blog by Chrome Product Manager Mark Chang explains that Google is using its own “advanced memory allocator”, PartitionAlloc, to cut down on memory usage across Chrome. PartitionAlloc is “optimized for low allocation latency, space efficiency, and security”, and is now used everywhere on Chrome for Android and 64-bit Windows, and has been able to significantly cut down…

While celebrating bringing fibre cables to over a million homes in SA, Vumatel has announced that it will be rolling out  10Gbps fibre into homes fairly soon. Internal trials are being conducted in partnership with ISP Cool Ideas, and consumers will have access to the package when they end. Vumatel’s got the need for speed Vumatel CEO Dietlof Mare told TechCentral that this monstrous speed offering is aimed at a small, “technically astute” portion of the home broadband market. 10Gbps home internet has been unheard of so far. The closest we’ve seen to that is a still impressively quick 1Gbps, and…

Google recently announced that it would be bringing a number of features to Workspace to making working from home easier and simpler now that it’s become so commonplace. One area of particular focus was improving Meet on mobile devices, and the company has revealed in a tweet that the first major update to the platform is live on iOS devices, and will soon come to Android too. Google Tile View: Tile, no error https://twitter.com/GoogleWorkspace/status/1369720964334903297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1369720964334903297%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xda-developers.com%2Fgoogle-meets-grid-view-ios-coming-android-soon%2F As you can see in the tweet, Tile View lets you see a handful of your beautiful co-worker’s faces all at once, displaying their names in…

It’s been in the works for a minute, but as of yesterday it’s official: Xbox has officially acquired ZeniMax Media, and thereby eight “incredibly talented development studios” — id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Roundhouse Studios, Alpha Dog, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, and Bethesda Game Studios. In a post on Xbox Wire, Xbox head Phil Spencer outlined the roadmap “now that everything is official”. “This is the next step in building an industry-leading first-party studios team, a commitment we have to our Xbox community. With the addition of the Bethesda creative teams, gamers should know that Xbox consoles, PC, and Game…

On the list of things we’d rather not let total strangers in on, our phone calls are pretty high up there. Unfortunately, thousands of people using a popular iPhone app could have potentially experienced just that thanks to a nasty bug. Your iPhone’s been bugged The app, called “Call Recorder” very simply lets iPhone users record their calls so that they can listen to them again later. It stores these recordings in a “cloud storage bucket” hosted by Amazon, which held more than 130,000 recordings, says TechCrunch. The glitch  was discovered by a security researcher named Anand Parkash, and apparently…