Author: Trent Meikle

Since the beginning of the pandemic, FNB has seen consumer spending increase by 70% on services like Netflix and Spotify, among the other big names. In terms of actual money, FNB customers spend over R190 million per month on music and video streamers. But why? Well, there are a few reasons – with the largest being the eBucks rewards customers are accustomed to. People tend to notice stuff like that, which can only mean those numbers aren’t slowing down anytime soon. Also, it’s considerably easier (and safer) to stream content to a home than it is to go outside. That…

It’s pretty wild that we can look up almost any address in the world, and get a view of it instantly. Obviously, it’s crazy technology. But it’s become so commonplace that we take it for granted. And maybe with good reason. Every year, Google updates plenty of places across Google Maps, allowing us to get current views of the world. With all its updates, Google Maps has built up a collection of digital data. Now, Google is making older data useful again. It’s not just sitting on a server somewhere, of no use to anyone. Google has added the ability…

South Africans really dig streaming boxes, huh? Well then, they’ll really like this one. The Netogy Nova 4K UHD streaming box has just hit South African shelves. It wants to be the very best where streaming devices are concerned. Like no one ever was. And it has a long road ahead of it – beating the Xiaomi Mi Box S is its real test. Entertaining? That’s just its cause. Trying to be #1 So, what is Netogy’s strategy to become the best Pokémon trainer streaming box? For one, the Nova box comes standard with Android TV11 installed, and 16GB of…

You would think, sitting down to watch some sport; whether it be football or cricket, you would notice if something was a little off, right? Especially if the match you were watching wasn’t even real. Of course you would. Well, apparently not everyone would notice. A group of conmen in India organized an entirely fake Indian Premier League (IPL), which was apparently good enough to trick Russian bettors into giving their hard-worked money away. It’s pretty silly, and also completely hilarious. And the best part is that the group organizing the event almost got away with it – if only…

2022 has been rough on South Africa. At the moment, the country is facing its worst bout of load shedding since the term showed up back in 2007. People are turning every which way to find a solution that isn’t Eskom It looks like Makro is coming to the rescue. The popular retailer has announced its plans to start selling power walls and full solar installations to everyday consumers. As the year has gone on, more shoppers have approached Makro looking for generators, inverters, gas cooking tops, lanterns, and so on. Essentially, any product that may offset the problem that…

So, you want to know how disappearing messages work on WhatsApp? We’re sure you have your reasons. You probably just want to send memes to your friends and keep said friends from stealing them. Yeah, that’s it. That’s all that WhatsApp’s disappearing messages will be used for. WhatsApp has had this feature for a little over a year, though the app it got the idea from – Snapchat – made a name for itself by having this as its primary feature. It’s certainly something Meta’s users wanted. WhatsApp decided it was time to finally give it to us. View Once…

Recently, FNB launched a new eBucks rewards program that allows customers to earn back an extra R2 per litre in eBucks form. Yes, you’re only earning money back in the form of eBucks, but it’s better than nothing. And R2 is nothing to turn your nose up at – especially as fuel prices keep rising each month. FNB has been working on making the feature as easy as possible to use. To earn back eBucks, qualifying customers must do their business at Engen and use their virtual FNB cards to pay (for something else) at least once a month. Your…

Twitter is fiddling with experimental features again. This time around it’s letting two accounts co-author a tweet. The feature, named ‘CoTweets’ , is already testing on a select few accounts in the US, Canada, and Korea. ‘CoTweeting’ is designed to allow two separate accounts to be linked under one single tweet. The tweet will appear on both authors’ timelines. While it’s possible that regular users will be able to CoTweet, the feature seems to focus on brand accounts. Share a Tweet, share the cred. Now testing CoTweets, a new way to Tweet together. pic.twitter.com/q0gHSCXnhv — Twitter Create (@TwitterCreate) July 7,…

This October, Lego is set to release a 2,807-piece Bowser – the largest in the Super Mario line thus far. The Great Demon King is releasing under Lego’s Adults Welcome line, meant to try to entice more adults to participate in Lego. As if they need the temptation. And if you’re being honest, would you buy this for your kid? No! You’d keep it for yourself. The trick is bringing your child with you to the toy shop so nobody throws weird looks your way. One look at The Mighty Bowser shows that it’s a step above the rest of…

Two days ago, peripheral maker Nacon held its Nacon Connect event, in which the French company gave us teasers for a few of its upcoming games. We saw a glimpse of Steelrising, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, and several other games. Perhaps most interesting was the teaser for an upcoming open-world Terminator game. Based on the 30-second trailer, we can confirm that yes, it looks about a million times better than Gollum does. Although, it isn’t hard to beat. I’ll be ba… releasing sometime in the future… We now know there’s an upcoming Terminator game. What else? Well, not…