Author: Trent Meikle

As South Africa’s online grocery delivery industry continues to blossom, Spar hopes that it can get its foot in the door with a late, late play from behind. Spar initially announced its partnership with Uber Eats to make that dream a reality in July this year, with the two now taking the deal to new heights. Uber Eats gets a well-earned day at the Spar While Spar and Uber initially envisioned bringing the number of locations on the app to a still-high 400 by the end of 2025, plans have now changed. Following a successful trial, despite only a few…

The words ‘high-tech toaster’ are a surefire way to get everyone’s eyes rolling at Stuff, but once we got over ourselves a bit, Breville’s solution caught our attention. This isn’t a toaster stuffed with Wi-Fi or ChatGPT or something similar — the Breville Eye Q offers up the perfect slice of toast every time. That’s the idea, anyway. Finding out Breville’s Eye Q Companies can dress up their toasters as much as they like — they’re all still built on temperature sensors and timers like every other toaster for the last however many years. Except for the Breville Eye Q,…

Just days ahead of its official launch in China (15 October), key specs concerning the highly sought-after Honor Magic 8 Pro have leaked, and it’s as impressive as you’d imagine. Following on from Honor’s Magic 7 Series, this year’s Honor family debuts with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, which Samsung itself is reportedly pursuing. The news comes courtesy of tipster Digital Chat Station, revealing a few of the key specs over on Weibo. That’s not all. The Magic 8 Pro even found itself listed on Geekbench, offering potential customers a fairly good idea of how the company’s Snapdragon…

South Africa is due yet another petrol and diesel price decrease this November, if the latest round of predictions from the Central Energy Fund (CEF) are to be believed. Considering the CEF’s history when it comes to fuel prices, it’s safe to get a little excited about the prospect of cheaper prices across the board come November. Last week, we reported that South African motorists were looking forward to a sizeable 40c/l decrease for petrol prices this November, while diesel drivers would get away with a smaller (but still welcome) drop of around 10c/l. After the CEF’s latest projections (captured…

Sora joins the Android party, kinda You’ve likely seen OpenAI’s Sora 2 video-generation content bleed into other social media platforms by now. However, full access to the Sora video app remains iOS-only, assuming you can snag an invite. Not for long, according to Artem Russakovskii, Android Police founder, the app just appeared on the Google Play Store. The catch? You can’t download it. Yet. But its appearance in the store shows OpenAI is nearly ready to have its app breach the Android economy, driving us deeper into the infernal hellscape the company has generated for us. Thus far, interested users can only…

The original Rubik’s Cube is a timeless toy, puzzle, and party flex. The Rubik’s WowCube is… not that. Instead, it boldly asks the question: what if the Rubik’s Cube could play sub-par mobile games? That’s where the evolution of the timeless toy that’s still around today, mind you, is headed later this year. And it’ll cost $300 (∼R5,160). “It’s the most incredible thing I’ve seen in a long time,” – actually Steve Wozniak Something’s gotta pay for the 24 (twenty-four!) tiny colour LCDs covering the 2×2 design (we couldn’t even get a 3×3?), right? It still rotates just like a…

Did you really think you’d only get to see Samsung’s Android XR headset on the rumoured 21 October reveal date? If so, this might be your first rodeo, and that’s okay. It’s tradition for details about Samsung’s devices to slip through the cracks ahead of time, and that hasn’t changed with the ‘Galaxy XR’ leaking in full. The leaks, arriving in such rich detail and coming from Android Headlines, only bolster the rumours of a 21 October reveal that could even serve as the device’s official release date. We’ve got a look at official renders, specs, and what could possibly…

It feels illegal to even discuss the future of PlayStation’s next console (likely the PS6), which is coming “in a few years,” while the PS5 has barely had a moment to shine in the sun. Our feelings haven’t stopped Mark Cerny, lead PS5 architect, from meeting up with Jack Huynh, SVP and GM of AMD’s computing and graphics group, in a nine-minute-long YouTube video to do just that, even if the console and its tech are still in “very early days.” A lot riding on AMD https://youtu.be/1LCMzw-_dMw The two sat down to talk in-depth about Project Amethyst, which is expected…

The word on the street is that Valve’s long-awaited (and we mean really long) return to the virtual reality (VR) space could be effected before 2025 wraps up. Rumours first began to swirl over the so-called ‘Deckard’ VR headset back in 2021, with more leaks squeaking through Valve’s security earlier this year. All hands on Deckard The rumoured headset, unlike Valve’s previous headset, the Valve Index, would be a wireless effort, and the controllers will reportedly ditch the motion-tracking rings in favour of a more ergonomic design — similar to the Meta Quest’s 3S controllers. The rumoured ‘Roy’ controllers aren’t…

When FNB ended its homegrown tap-to-pay functionality in 2024 to instead support third-party digital wallet apps like Google Wallet, it left a few of its customers in an awkward position. Mainly those customers who own a Huawei device without Google Mobile Services (GMS), which, after 2020, is pretty much all of them. Despite owning an NFC-capable device, without access to GMS, these devices couldn’t take advantage of apps such as Google Wallet or Samsung Pay in SA. Now, FNB has announced that it now supports Swoo Pay. Swoo is another digital wallet service that is most notably available on the…