Author: Trent Meikle

Instagram’s got a verified-only feed now, we guess Remember when Instagram used to only be for close friends, just sharing updates to their lives? Vaguely. Meta is looking to rid itself of its troubled (and less profitable) past with the launch of a new ‘feature’ for Instagram – a verified-only homepage feed. Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced the change in his broadcast channel on Monday. “We’re exploring this as a new control for people and a way for businesses and creators to get discovered,” he wrote.  If you’re scratching your head wondering what the hell Verified accounts are, we’ll…

We knew WhatsApp’s streak of brilliant updates couldn’t last. There had to be something that didn’t grab our attention eventually, and it looks like the day has finally come. According to WABetaInfo, Meta is cooking up a new update for WhatsApp Business that’ll see a ‘quick action bar’ join the app’s ranks. See? Told you.   That won’t stop it from being useful, though. WABetaInfo first spotted the addition in the WhatsApp Business beta for Android 2.23.22.10 update which usually means that an official rollout isn’t that far away. We can’t be sure when that’ll be, but we’re placing our bets…

He is the Messiah Still waiting for Apple to deliver something new in the iMac department? You might not have to wait for much longer if Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has anything to say about it. And say about it he does, over in his weekly Power On newsletter, making some bold claims that suddenly has our hopes up for a surprise end-of-October iMac release.  When Gurman speaks, you listen. Even if the next-biggest Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, reckons that the same refreshed model is only landing in 2024.   The last time Apple got around to updating the iMac was back…

Enter MicroLED Anyone who’s into tech will know that OLED is the go-to for the time being. It’s everywhere — TVs, monitors, and game consoles — if you’re willing to put up with larger-than-usual prices. It was only a matter of time before those bigger companies began looking for what’s next. In the case of your Samsung and Apple smartwatches, what’s next might just be MicroLED That’s what Samsung’s Korea division had to say, anyway (via SamMobile). Samsung said it was considering a larger push into MicroLED panels for smartwatches and signage displays over the coming years. When and where it’ll show…

We’re big fans of Logitech at Stuff. Unless we’re talking about its line-up of Pebble mice which tend to fall on their already flat faces. Give us a decent keyboard or a mouse we can actually get a grip on and we’re happy campers. In the case of the Logitech Pebble 2 Combo, we’ve been given the best of one world.  It’s rocking a minimalist yet premium-feeling keyboard that wormed its way onto our desks for the better part of two weeks. We wish we could say the same for the Pebble mouse that came with it. We gave it its…

If you’ve been keeping up you’ve probably noticed WhatsApp’s continually evolving list of updates. It’s not slowing down either, with two new updates wending their way to the messenger over the coming weeks.   One, announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself, will allow users to keep two accounts running on a single device simultaneously, something we’ve been waiting for since the days of yore. The other – still stuck in beta – could turn your voice notes into self-destructing snippets (but only if you want them to).  Dr. Jekyll would’ve loved this one Rather than lugging around two different phones to…

Robots doing tattoos? People are weird. They’ve had ink painfully pushed into their skin since at least 3351 BCE in what was once a cultural practice but has since evolved into an excuse for people to cover their bodies in Hanzi, Kanji, infinity symbols, and countless mothers’ names. The art of tattooing has fallen to modern-day tattooists, with no two tattoos alike (it’s kinda the point). Blackdot, a new startup in the US, is hoping to change that. It’s designed the “world’s first automatic tattooing device” that’ll tattoo customers with the precision that only a computer could pull off. It…

If you’ve been awaiting a massive glow-up from YouTube, you’re finally getting your wish. Earlier today, YouTube announced that it’ll be rolling out around thirty new features and design changes that’ll make content “easier to use, more fun, and more engaging,” across mobile, web, and TV.  We’re going to give it to you straight. Don’t expect many of the updates to actually fix any of the important stuff like its recommendation algorithm, search results, or spam bots that still plague the comments section to this day. Instead, YouTube’s gone down the easy route, adding some features that aren’t exactly game-changers,…

Musk starts charging for the privilege of using X A year after Musk took the reins on Twitter, now X, and the company is still losing money. We can’t prove that, but we don’t need to. The platform’s decisions over the past twelve months speak for themselves, with the latest headlines coming out from the social media company only confirming our suspicions. We always guessed that if things got desperate enough, X might just charge to use the platform at all.   As of today, new users looking to sign up to X in New Zealand or the Philippines will…

We get it. You’re still working your way through the massive catalogue of GOTY-worthy games. If you’re doing it right, there’s a good chance that you’re about a third of the way through Tears of the Kingdom and haven’t even thought about conquering Jedi Survivor, Spider-Man 2 or Diablo IV. You might want to turn your attention to the latter, especially if you’re missing an Xbox from your life.  Xbox has teamed up with the developers behind Diablo IV to create an exclusive (and we mean exclusive) Xbox Series X “inspired by the forces of evil that threaten the world…