Author: Trent Meikle

Your YouTube Premium mooching days are over. Unless, of course, you happen to live with whichever champion invited you into the R150/m ‘Premium Family’ plan. Google, like Netflix, has reportedly begun flagging accounts that don’t reside alongside the primary account holder, forcing them to get with the programme, or get their own account. Making like Netflix That’s not new. Since at least 2023, Google has required all Family members to reside at the primary account holder’s location, but until now, it’s never really enforced the rule. Some moochers have reported receiving emails from Google warning them of the change. As…

When we half-jokingly said “it seems like just about everyone has an MVNO these days,” when Spar Mobile launched, we didn’t expect to cover the launch of Nedbank’s own mobile virtual network operator, Nedbank Connect, quite this soon. Nevertheless, it will arrive locally sometime this September. As you’ve probably guessed by this point, Nedbank Connect isn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. It’s piggybacking off MTN just like nearly every other MVNO on the market, and the prices don’t appear particularly enticing. There is a level of flexibility, however, that might appeal to certain customers. Can you feel the Connection?…

Pivot! Pivot! You can always count on tech shows like next week’s IFA to supply the world with some of the oddest gadgets known to man, even if they’re technically just glorified concept art. Lenovo appears to be keeping that tradition alive, this time delivering a new concept laptop with a rotating display, switching between horizontal and portrait orientations on the fly. It’s known internally as Project Pivo. At least, that’s according to reliable leaker Evan Blass (@evleaks), who even shared an image of the device ahead of IFA in a post on X. Unfortunately, there’s not much more to…

This is starting to get out of hand. Spotify, easily the largest music streamer, which recently debuted new mixing tools to the excitement of… someone (probably), just announced something new. “Spotify Hifi?” you might be asking yourself, a hint of manic desperation in your voice. Uh, no. It’s adding direct messages, because why not? Spotify approves this message The next question on your lips might be “why?” That’s a valid question, seeing as how sending a link to your similarly-minded music mates works just as well, if not better. It’ll even let you make the link you send look all…

You haven’t been truly annoyed until you’ve tried to use the original Nintendo Switch Pro controller on Ninty’s latest console: the Nintendo Switch 2. Yeah, it works just as well as it did on the old hardware, but with one major flaw: it can’t wake the Switch 2. That means trudging up to the console to turn it on physically. Over and over. We get it; first-world problems and all that, but after you’ve sunk into the couch for what feels like the hundredth time, only to get right back up in a huff, that Switch 2 Pro controller starts…

If you thought something looked slightly off on your YouTube videos these past few weeks, you’re not going crazy. In a move that should surprise absolutely nobody, Google has been putting AI where you didn’t ask for it — secretly editing your uploads because, well, it can. All for the sake of improving upload quality, of course. A not-so-secret experiment At least, that’s what Rene Ritchie, YouTube’s head of editorial, had to say on the subject in a post on X. The experiment hit “select” YouTube Shorts earlier this year, using “traditional machine learning” to unblur, denoise, and improve clarity in…

Continuing our streak of Beyerdynamic reviews at Stuff is what is arguably the company’s best set of gaming cans – the MMX 330 Pro. We’ve tested these open-back, button-down, high-quality gamers for a couple of weeks now, and we finally know what people mean when they say that when you’re in love, you’ll know. Except, you know, for a gaming headset. It’s all the same principle. We think. There indeed are plenty of fish in the sea, but Beyer’s MMX 330 Pro stands out among those fish with excellent audio, extreme comfort, and a mic that’ll have your gamer pals commenting. It’s…

With August drawing to a close, it won’t be long before the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) is ready to officially adjust the country’s official fuel prices. Fortunately, according to the latest fuel price data from the Central Energy Fund (CEF), South African motorists are in for a treat this September. Not just petrol drivers, but diesel drivers, too. We get why you might be a little sceptical, especially considering the rough couple of months diesel drivers have had to suffer through, but things seem to be finally returning to normal, with a roughly 50c/l decrease expected to…

Meta’s going on a Midjourney Apparently, hiring every somewhat competent employee from Apple isn’t a surefire path to AI success. Meta today confirmed that it was partnering with Midjourney, “to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions,” said Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer. “To ensure Meta is able to deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach. This means world-class talent, ambitious compute roadmap, and working with the best players across the industry,” Wang continued. In other words, Meta feels that its homegrown tech isn’t up…

Your tablet may be a lot of things — huge, powerful, artificially intelligent — but can it watch Shrek? A Shrek, mind you, that’s been blown up to 120in and watched in the garden with the whole family? Yeah, we didn’t think so. But Blackview’s new Active 12 Pro 5G rugged tablet can, among many other things. One of those is the ability to survive a 12m drop and live to tell the tale, or withstand 2.2 tons of pressure before cracking. Or at least, that’s what Blackview says about it. Whether it can actually do all that on top of being a…