Author: Trent Meikle

MSI’s stealthy 16 Mercedes-AMG Motorsport A13V MSI has partnered up with Mercedes AMG to produce a customised Stealth 16 Studio A13V laptop. It’s officially dubbed the Stealth 16 Mercedes-AMG Motorsport A13V, and it’s packing a 16in OLED display that’s targeting creatives, though we’re guessing it’ll be a dab hand at gaming too. It is an altered piece of MSI hardware, after all. The customised Stealth 16 has made its way to South Africa, eventually, ending up on Evetech’s store for a whopping R70,000. Is it worth it? With its 13th-Gen Intel Core i9 Processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPU and…

Remember that Wonderlust event we told you about? No? It doesn’t matter now since the bloody thing is here and it’s already already over. Apple’s kicked off the whole thing with the usual cutesy trailer that’s promoting… something or other. We’re not actually sure. Whatever the case, it’s all just a precursor for the real show – with Apple announcing its first new thing of the night – the Apple Watch Series 9. The Apple Watch Series 9 is a go! Surprised? One of the biggest changes to look forward to here is Apple’s new S9 SiP (System in Package),…

Internet, here we come The Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) subsea cable, one of three damaged undersea cables that have been behind South Africa’s slow internet, is finally being repaired, reports TechCentral. The Ace cable was damaged during a suspected rockfall in the Congo Canyon in early August, damaging the West Africa Cable System (Wacs) and Telkom’s South Atlantic 3 (Sat–3) cables. Léon Thévenin, the cable-laying ship responsible for repairing the cable reached the restoration site, according to an email sent to TechCentral from Bayobab, a subsidiary of MTN. “The repair vessel Leon Thévenin is currently stationed at the Ace…

WhatsApp’s playing nice WhatsApp is making friends with other messenger apps, according to the app’s latest beta version (and WABetaInfo). Tucked away in the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.19.8, the messenger is opening itself up to other forms of communication, such as being able to receive messages from iMessage or Telegram senders and vice-versa. This isn’t some kind-hearted gesture from Meta. This has to do with the recent obligations set out by the new EU Digital Markets Act, with the European Commission setting a deadline – saying that the company needs to comply and open itself up to third-party…

South African rugby fans have found an unexpected hero in Zizi Kodwa, the country’s Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture. Until as late as yesterday afternoon – a day before the 2023 Rugby World Cup kickoff – it was understood that MultiChoice and the South African Broadcasting Corporation wouldn’t come to an agreement for the tournament’s sub-licensing rights. Kodwa’s saving grace That’s all changed after Kodwa’s comments on Wednesday imploring the two entities to play nice. MultiChoice has confirmed that the SABC will be allowed to broadcast some of the World Cup matches after the South African broadcaster accepted a…

Load shedding Stage 5 is back, back again #LoadsheddingUpdate Thursday, 07 September 2023 Due to improved generation capacity and emergency reserves, Stage 5 loadshedding will be implemented tomorrow from 05:00 until 16:00. Eskom will publish another update on Friday afternoon. We plead with members of the public to… — Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) September 7, 2023 Stage 6? Remember that? How could you not? The country has suffered through it since Tuesday. Fortunately, Eskom has announced that load shedding has been reduced to Stage 5 since 05:00 this morning. Don’t get your hopes up just yet. Stage 5 is…

We’re going to take a wild guess here and say you like money. Or more specifically, having it. We know you like Doritos. Combine those two things with gaming, and you’ve got yourself the Doritos Crunch Cup (though you won’t find many actual Doritos here), which is officially returning for round three at this year’s Comic Con Africa. Having successfully lured more than 400 participants to the Crunch Cup in 2022, Doritos is hoping to shatter that number, after expanding the free-to-play tournament to Cape Town’s inaugural Comic Con in 2022. Doritos hasn’t mentioned what sort of prize money players…

Apple might soon rely on its own 5G modems We’re less than a week away from Apple’s Wonderlust event where the fruit company will launch its latest line-up of iPhones and smartwatches. Thanks to copious rumours surrounding the iPhone 15, we’ve got a basic idea of what we’ll be seeing both inside the phones and out – none of which feature Apple’s rumoured 5G modem. According to popular Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via GSMArena), Apple’s been working on its own in-house 5G modem for a while now. When Kuo speaks, it’s generally worth listening to. He reckons Apple’s custom-built 5G…

We’ve got some bad news, rugby fans. Despite months of attempting to come to some sort of understanding, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and SuperSport were unable to land on an agreement for this year’s Rugby World Cup sub-licensing rights. If that’s all gibberish to you, it means SABC won’t be broadcasting the 2023 Rugby World Cup on any of its channels, leaving SuperSport as the tournament’s sole provider in South Africa. That means you’ll need a rather pricey DStv subscription to gain access to channel 201. That might extend to Showmax, MultiChoice’s home-grown streaming service that has hosted…

YouTube is getting into gaming, seriously  YouTube is dipping its hands into every pie it can reach. It’s got YouTube Music, television (in the US), eSports livestreams, and now it’s extending into games of its own. It’s called the “Playables” initiative, and it was initially reported earlier this year by The Wall Street Journal (and Stuff), described as “a product for playing online games.” Back then, it was reserved for Google’s employees as part of an early test, and details were scarce. All we did know was that Stack Bounce was one of the games in the early test, a game that’s already…