Author: Trent Meikle

It’s been less than a week since the Department of Energy (DoE) dashed our dreams of a petrol price decrease and instead raised the price of petrol, diesel and paraffin. The worst part? It’s probably going to happen again in April. At least, that’s what the latest data (captured on 03 March) from the Central Energy Fund indicates. If you are still stretching your petrol from last week’s pre-increase fill-up, you may not be as worried about a potential increase. For now, at least. Come the final week of March, and you and your car will be singing a different…

The Nothing Phone (1) might have its own speaker to connect to soon Nothing, makers of such devices as the Nothing Phone (1) and the Ear (1) TWS, might have something new on the horizon. According to (alleged) promotional renders, it’s looking like Nothing is gearing up for the launch of its first speaker. The news first appeared on 91Mobiles, via reliable leaker Kuba Wojciechowski. The renders appear to be a part of the company’s marketing campaign, giving us a look at the speaker’s boxy design. The volume and power button placement is visible on the device’s side, with the…

Some things can’t be improved upon. Look at The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker or Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, and tell us we’re wrong. Until recently, we counted Sony’s DualSense controller amongst that list. And then we got to see the DualSense Edge in person. We’d heard about Sony’s ‘pro’ controller for months, putting it in the back of our minds, convinced that it couldn’t topple the DualSense from its perch. How wrong we were. While Stuff was playing around with the PSVR 2, we were offered the chance to briefly check out the DualSense Edge. There was just one…

Free TV is dead. Kinda. eMedia, the company behind Openview, recently announced the launch of ‘Ultraview’ – a new pay-tv service that’ll add additional “bouquets” of content, appearing alongside the free channels that Openview currently offers. Ultraview officially hits the small screen at noon on Monday, 6 March. For the uninitiated, Openview’s whole schtick is free TV. After paying Openview’s one-time fee to own their decoder and satellite dish, that is. We’d rather have Ultramel Ultraview runs as a subscription-based service, with eMedia stating that it would offer ‘niche content’ across several packages. The first of which is the Pride…

Plans are underway for a R2.7 billion solar plant, the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has announced. The plant will take refuge in the Eastern Cape, with its primary goal being to pull the area out of the load shedding the country is currently experiencing. Got the greenies? The project, known as Parsons Power Park, will eventually add an additional 150MW of energy to the area’s grid. Phase one of the project begins construction in November this year, taking an estimated ten months to complete. The first phase is responsible for delivering 25MW of energy to the city. Once finished, phase…

Stuff recently got its hands on Sony’s latest venture into the world of virtual reality; the PSVR 2. Thanks to the PS5 accessory’s immediate popularity, we only got to play around with it for the better part of… three hours. It certainly wasn’t enough time for a full review, though it was enough time to get a sense of where Sony’s head has been at for the six years since the first PSVR was released. We entered our three-hour playtest with somewhat muted expectations. Sure, everything about Sony’s follow-up is better than the previous iteration — on paper. It would…

Dread it. Run from it. Vodacom’s price hikes will arrive all the same. Following in the footsteps of its competitors, Vodacom has announced that it will be increasing subscription prices across a number of Red tariff plans from 1 April 2023. The company’s excuse for the increases will sound familiar to those aware of the MTN and Telkom increases. The company cites “increased battery theft, base station vandalism and a difficult economic climate with inflation, exchange rate pressures and intensified load shedding” as the reasons for charging its customers more this year. Don’t fret, Vodacom customers. Despite the hikes, Vodacom…

Streaming isn’t as great as it could be in Africa. Sure, we’ve got the big hitters like Netflix, Amazon Prime, MultiChoice’s Showmax and the abhorrent Disney+ app in South Africa. But compare our library to that of say, the US, and you’ll immediately notice some pretty big differences. That could be about to change what with MultiChoice’s announcement of a partnership between itself and Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Sky. The resulting new group will be known as Earth UK, which will trade as the Showmax Group. The new company is still majority-owned by MultiChoice with a 70% cut, NBCUniversal will own…

Prepare yourself (and your wallet) – Telkom is hiking prices across a number of products, including mobile, DSL, voice, and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services. Any customers currently paying for mobile, DSL, or voice services will have their bills raised on 1 April. Those using any FTTH services will avoid the hikes for a month longer, with their bills set to increase on 1 May. Telkom points towards the country’s record high inflation rate as the reason for the increase, stating that they were “necessary and unavoidable.” “The imminent price increases across fixed voice, ADSL, FTTH, and mobile offerings will ensure continued…

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 is upon us. Like, physically upon us. That’s because the convention is showing a strong return to form after taking a short sabbatical back in 2020, and a rather muted online-only event the following year. With the show kicking off yesterday in Barcelona, we’ve still got three days of announcements – whether they be great, meh, or downright terrible – to get through. We’re sure all those downright terrible announcements will make it into another article eventually. So far though, the show has been a success, despite us only seeing a sliver of what the…