Author: Trent Meikle

MultiChoice Group – the owners behind DStv – has announced its annual subscription price hike, set to hit the country’s bank accounts on 1 April 2023. And no, as much as we’d like this to be a poorly timed April Fool’s joke, has MultiChoice ever kidded anyone about money? Subscribers on DStv’s satellite packages will experience an increase by an average of 4.3% – an increase that MultiChoice says is “far lower than the projected consumer price inflation (CPI) for 2023.” Those on the company’s streaming package will not feel an increase. Vague sentiments and price increases “The pressure that…

Has anyone checked up on Oppo recently? The company is on a global prowl for new brand ambassadors (read: influencer) that’ll help test out its phones. The pool of paid labour must be running dry. In this case, the company is specifically looking for testers for the incoming Oppo Find N2 Flip. The brand is searching for anyone (seriously, the programme is open to anyone that meets the criteria) to join the ranks of Oppo’s Product Ambassadors to test out the phone (and maybe a few others down the line). The Oppo Find N2 Flip already hit Chinese shelves in…

Yup, it’s already that time of the week. Time to face the latest bout of the Central Energy Fund’s (CEF) petrol price predictions. Last week, the CEF delivered the unfortunate news that both petrol and diesel drivers would likely experience an increase in prices come Wednesday, 1 March. According to the CEF’s latest data – captured on 10 February – the country is still facing an increase, though not quite as hectic as last week’s prediction. We miss you, eBucks R2/l petrol rewards As always, we warn readers that while these numbers might be official — they’re from the CEF…

Waiting on M3 Apple has a new 24in iMac in the pipeline, but it’s unlikely that we’ll see it before the end of 2023 is upon us, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. He believes that Apple will entirely skip the M2 generation for the iMac, and is holding out for the yet-to-be-announced M3 chip. “I haven’t seen anything to indicate there will be a new iMac until the M3 chip generation, which won’t arrive until the tail end of this year at the earliest or next year,” said Gurman in his latest newsletter. “So if you want to stick with…

As is tradition for the month of February, Nintendo kicked off the year with a Direct, the Japanese company’s own live-streamed event. This time, we got a taste of what Nintendo shills (hey, that’s us) could expect in the first half of the year. Fortunately, it alL went rather smoothly, something that we don’t often get to say after a Direct. Why? Because Nintendo knew why most of the watchers its stream had garnered were there. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. And it did not disappoint. Oh, and we guess that Twitter failing right before the show…

It’s been nearly a year and a half since we reported WhatsApp’s involvement in building a  feature that would turn voice notes into text. And then suddenly… it wasn’t. The feature was never officially announced by WhatsApp, so its departure was never explained. According to WABetaInfo, the feature is back and making the rounds on WhatsApp’s beta program. Most (sane) people avoid voice notes wherever they can, whether it be sending or listening to them. They’re a hassle to listen to and usually receive responses in the form of a text message (if at all). If the feature does reach…

It’s not often that Nintendo pulls off a Direct, the company’s live-streamed announcement event, that leaves fans satisfied while simultaneously managing to quell the angry tirade of Twitter users all in one fell swoop. That usually only happens when Twitter is either down, or Nintendo shows off whatever the latest Legend of Zelda title that’s on the horizon. This time, we got both – in the form of a new Tears of the Kingdom trailer and Twitter’s demise right before the show kicked off. As a bonus, we got a ‘surprise’ announcement that the Japanese company is bringing back the…

After taking a break in 2020 (remember that pandemic?*), Mobile World Congress (MWC) has since returned to yearly events – and it’s no different in 2023. From 27 February until 2 March, the world’s largest mobile-focused trade show visits Barcelona again to show off the tech world’s best (and possibly weirdest) mobile innovations. Despite being a mobile-focused show, attending brands don’t always waste limit their unveilings to mobile devices. Often, these devices forge into the territory of ‘strange’ and that’s what we’re looking at today. Better still, we’ll check up on how they’re getting along nowadays. Energizer P18K Pop Credits:…

Pick n Pay and Shoprite, two of South Africa’s largest retailers, have both revealed their monthly spending in order to keep the lights and fridges on in their stores during load shedding. In just six months, Shoprite spent an “additional” R560 million (R93 million per month) on diesel to run the company’s generators. That’s not including Shoprite’s already-high electricity bill which costs the company roughly R2 billion per year. Shoprite isn’t suffering alone. Pick n Pay has said that its monthly spend on generators has reached as high as R60 million per month, to keep things running during trading hours.…

What do you get one you combine two of the internet’s most popular games; Flappy Bird and Wordle? Well, you get Flappy Birdle – the latest in a long line of Wordle spinoffs. It combines the speed of Flappy Bird and the accuracy of Wordle in order to score big points. Unlike Wordle, Flappy Birdle gives you unlimited plays. How else would we lie about how many tries it took us to get the word right? Because we totally beat Flappy Birdle. “Yeah, we beat Flappy Birdle” Flappy Birdle is simple. Or rather, simple to learn. Mastery of Flappy Birdle…