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I remember this. Solitaire! Cards go BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE! Windows 3 was about more than Solitaire, but then it needed to be. Windows 1 didn’t even have overlapping windows, and v2 felt clunky compared to what Apple was shipping at the time. But with its fancy File Manager and Program Manager, swanky sculpted buttons and standardised menus, Windows 3 was, well, at least less clunky. And it did have Solitaire, even if that was mostly included to force people to start using a mouse and to pretend computers were for normal people. So it was very much a case of…

The Huawei Women in Tech 2025 programme recently took place in Johannesburg, bringing together 40 women entrepreneurs and government leaders for three days of digital skills and leadership development. In collaboration with Stuff magazine, this year’s programme placed a strong focus on entrepreneurship and consumer technology, showing participants how start-ups can grow through smart marketing strategies while also exploring the evolution of technology from its early disruptors to today’s AI-driven world. Entrepreneurship meets consumer tech Entrepreneur Heidi Patmore of Manjaro Marketing inspired participants with her lessons from building in the start-up sector, emphasising the importance of funding, visibility, and sustainable…

Following a rather tough month for South Africa’s fuel prices in August, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has some good news. Finally. Starting Wednesday, 3 September 2025, both the price of petrol and diesel will receive a major price cut, making for a more affordable month than the last. Fuel prices stay winning We should note that, like clockwork, the DMRE adjusts the country’s fuel prices on the first Wednesday (at midnight) of any given month, and a not a moment sooner. That leaves motorists plenty of time to plan out their car’s next move and avoid…

Yeah, VR! I love VR! Wait … what’s this hellish contraption? Hellish is right. Everything about Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s first foray into ‘proper 3D’, seems designed to cause abject horror. The ad spot featured a bipedal Virtual Boy marching across a dystopian landscape, snaring a terrified human, while a voiceover growled it “needs your eyes”. And then there’s the problem of actually playing the thing. Because Nintendo didn’t want you impaling yourself on a fork when blindly stumbling around, you couldn’t strap the thing to your face like modern VR … so it had a stand. So you had to…

Nvidia’s cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, is set to be upgraded next month. Its servers will chuck the current GPUs and replace them with shiny new RTX 5080 cards. With this hardware upgrade also comes a new experimental feature from Nvidia’s partnership with Discord and Epic Games. The experimental feature enables prospective gamers to immediately try a game via Discord before they fork over their dough. Nvidia will show off the feature in what it calls a ‘technology demo’ at Gamescom this week. The first game playable this way will be Fortnite. Nvidia try-before-you-buy “You can simply click a button…

If you’re seeing this page, you either caught it in passing as it went live or you came here via a link in the printed version of Stuff Magazine. If it’s the former, we suggest you grab a copy of the magazine (it’s right here) for just R40. Or you can buy a copy of the dead-tree version in your local store. Either way, you’ll need it to answer the questions below. Not all of them, obviously. Just the tricky one right at the bottom. You know, the one that guarantees your entry into the Stuff/Monster audio giveaway for the…

Ah, the PS One – I loved that thing. The moment when gaming finally became cool! We’re not talking about the original PlayStation, which wasn’t even called the PS1 back then (well, that would have been wildly presumptuous). This is the PS One – and it was no mere name change. Sony’s sleeker, curvier console – half the footprint, a third of the weight – was aimed at a younger, wider audience less obsessed with mean, angular hardware. And you could buy a screw-on 5in screen that arguably made it Sony’s first portable console. A portable PS? Were they expecting…

It’s already that time of the month again, folks. Time for the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) to adjust the country’s fuel prices at the pumps from the morning of Wednesday, 6 August. This time, it will be the country’s diesel drivers who will be forced to contend with yet another massive price hike, while petrol drivers will find themselves enjoying a price decrease, if somewhat minor. Diesel drivers will probably be walking this August That leaves diesel drivers less than 24 hours to get themselves to the nearest garage to take advantage of the ‘cheaper’ prices before…

The recent departure of its head of AI, the upcoming retirement of the long-time chief operating officer, and a fight with the EU over its app store are just the latest developments in what’s been a truly rough period for Apple. COO Jeff Williams (62), who is Apple’s second-highest executive after CEO Tim Cook (64), will retire at the end of this month, Bloomberg reports. He will be replaced by Sabih Khan, who has been at Apple for 30 years and has been a senior vice president since 2019. “When Khan steps into the new role, he’ll contend with challenges…

Yes, says a theory that originated in San Francisco and was the subject of a Bloomberg opinion piece this week. Ever since OpenAI first acquired former Apple design chief and superstar Jony Ive’s startup ‘io’ (ssshhh) for a whopping $6.4 billion, it’s been a total mystery as to what Ive will create for the company as design chief. “The former Apple designer loves the age-old tool, perhaps enough to make it a landmark AI device,” writes Parmy Olson, who says Jony Ive has a “personal affinity with pens, having built up a personal collection”. She says the theory comes from…