Author: Trent Meikle

Crusty old iPhone 5s still clinging to life, begging for the sweet relief of death, might get their wish come 2025. According to the folks at WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is dropping support for several older iPhone models to better focus on newer software and the iPhone 5s tops the list. If the lack of WhatsApp is a true deal-breaker, it’s time to go out and buy something new. As long as your upgrade doesn’t mention the words ‘iPhone 6’ or iPhone 6 Plus’* anywhere near them, you should be fine. Those will join the iPhone 5s at the graveyard once Meta implements…

Picking up a Garmin wearable is no small feat. Not just because each is designed to tackle vastly different sports and exercises, but because their prices can reach as high as R30,000+ if you like to keep on top of things. So the news that a specific bug has plagued users for months now, crashing their wearables at the most inopportune moments can’t be easy to hear. It won’t make it any easier once we tell you the bug has even spread to the Fenix 8. Time to play the waiting game And no, Garmin has not yet put out…

So, you’re looking to run Baldur’s Gate 3, Spider-Man 2, CoD: MW3, and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on one PS5? Um, ackshually, no you’re not. Unless those are your only games, not even accounting for all the footage tucked away in your media gallery. Give it a couple of years, and gamers will be forced to pick up some third-party storage solution to make up for the abysmal performance of the custom 825GB SSD in the PS5. We recently had the opportunity to whack in Western Digital’s officially licensed SN850P NVMe SSD (1TB) (though WD also sells 2,4, and 8TB…

It’s about time somebody put artificial intelligence (AI) to good use. For once, Google has commandeered everyone’s favourite buzzword for something fun: chess. This isn’t just a regular game across the 64 squares (well, it is); this is GenChess. The rules haven’t changed (Chess 2, when?) – but the pieces sure have. Rather than sticking with the tried-and-true pieces that have dominated the game for centuries, GenChess concocts entirely new pieces for every game. You’ll help it along by providing a short description of the white piece’s theme (classic or creative) and Google, or more specifically, the Imagen 3 AI model,…

Do you have any plans for this Friday, 29 November at midnight? Now you do. FNB is diving headfirst into the Black Friday spirit, announcing a slew of deals designed to help its customers stretch their salaries as far as possible. One of those is a PS5 Slim, only going for the low price of R6,700 – some strings attached. Those join some other superb deals—like a Samsung 65-inch QLED TV, again, for only R6,700. The catch? FNB Connect is only selling off 186 of each product in this category to celebrate the bank’s 186th birthday, meaning it’s fastest-finger first…

MTN, one of South Africa’s largest mobile network operators, has unveiled the Icon 5G – an MTN-branded budget smartphone designed to lure customers away from the 2G and 3G networks that are still so prevalent among South Africans. The news comes soon after MTN announced its entry into the cloud gaming scene. On the hunt for a budget Icon The Icon 5G matches the price point set by Samsung’s own budget effort – the A06 – at R2,500. Whether it can compare to Samsung’s superior OS and build quality… remains to be seen. The specs, at least, appear to hit…

Next Wednesday, 4 December, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) will adjust South Africa’s petrol and diesel pumps nationwide with new prices that will have some drivers jumping for joy while others… Well, we’ll let you find out for yourself which camp you fall into. The Central Energy Fund (CEF), a state-owned energy group reporting to the DMRE, has published yet another predictive daily snapshot (captured 25 November), offering South Africans the most accurate glimpse of how their wallets and daily commutes will be affected come December. We wish we had better news for you With just over…

Black Friday is here, and Nintendo has entered the fray. And for once, it’s managed to shave the prices down by a considerable amount*. It makes sense. This is Nintendo’s last chance to clear out the shelves before pulling the rug out from beneath unsuspecting families with the announcement of the Switch 2. For most, a successor console looming over Black Friday would be a severe handicap. But Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2 (or whatever it ends up called) will be backward compatible. That should keep the Switch’s games from going stale ahead of the announcement. Hardware is a little…

Microsoft Recall returns… kinda Few features have reached the level of infamy that Microsoft’s AI-powered Recall feature has. Hardly anybody was surprised when Microsoft took the opportunity to send Recall back to the drawing board just days ahead of release, nor when it was delayed again at the beginning of November. Microsoft is finally ready to face the music and officially dropped a preview of the feature for a very select few users last week. Only those folks rockin’ a Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC and who are also enrolled in the Windows Insider program can get ahold of Recall, as well as…

Ever needed a brand-new pair of AirPods so desperately that you’d be willing to pay a premium to have them delivered right then and there? No? Well, Checkers is doing it anyway. Yesterday, it officially rolled out an overhaul of the Sixty60 app to millions of customers, improving general security, introducing a refreshed UI, and offering a whole new market for the delivery service: premium products. “One 2L Coke and an iPad Air, please” All customers nationwide can update the Sixty60 app or download it if they haven’t already (Android, iOS), which supposedly introduces “a refined layout and user interface,”…