Author: Trent Meikle

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…

If you haven’t heard the good news, South Africa’s Home Affairs is collecting banks like Infinity Stones in a bid to expand the country’s access to smart ID and passport services. First came FNB and Capitec, followed by Standard Bank, Absa, Discovery Bank, and now, finally, African Bank and Nedbank have joined the charge. Home Affairs goes all in Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber first confirmed that African Bank had joined the fray in a social media post on Tuesday, before following it up with the news of Nedbank’s rather late arrival to the programme today. “Nedbank just became the…

It’s no secret that the Xiaomi Redmi Note line-up is one of Stuff’s favourites, with both the Redmi Note 13 Pro+ and Redmi Note 14 Pro standing out as some of the best mid-rangers available in South Africa. Xiaomi’s hoping to keep the streak alive with the release of the Redmi Note 15 Series, which has officially turned up in China. Better yet, two of the trio — consisting of the Redmi Note 15, 15 Pro, and 15 Pro+ — have opted for a Snapdragon build for the first time, ditching the Dimensity chips that powered previous generations. The batteries are…

Voicemails are a lost art. Nowadays, everything can be shared in a voice note or a simple text — and even written for you by an AI-powered assistant — but it appears that WhatsApp is looking to bring it back. According to WABetaInfo, Meta has revived the voicemail in its 2.25.23.21 WhatsApp beta for Android. You’ve got voicemail You’d think that WhatsApp might have exhausted all features in the call department, but it’s always adding more. The voicemail update builds off the back of more recent changes that allowed beta testers to set notification reminders for missed calls, or the newfound ability to…

In the case of Amazon’s Fire tablet line-up, the retail overlord has stubbornly stuck to Fire OS — an offshoot of Android — ever since it debuted back in 2011. No longer, according to a recent report from Reuters, which reckons Amazon will finally make the leap to proper Android and ditch Fire OS altogether. ‘Bout time, amirite? After years of fending off customer complaints related to the homegrown operating system, it seems Amazon has decided it isn’t worth the hassle, with plans to release a new high-end Fire device sometime next year. The project is known internally as Kittyhawk,…

You know Beyerdynamic, even if you’ve never had the pleasure of slinging one of its headsets around your neck. That might have something to do with our recent reviews of the company’s latest and greatest. Either way, it explains our hype for Beyer’s new MMX 150 and MMX 230 wireless gaming headsets. A Beyerdynamic duo Announced at Gamescom, Beyerdynamic grabbed the opportunity 335,000 folks all cloistered together under one roof in Germany presented, and unveiled these new gamer-centric cans. There’s the MMX 150, featuring a detachable mic. Stretch that budget, and the flagship MMX 230 will throw in features like…

Still without a YouTube Premium subscription? After Google recently raised prices in South Africa, we can’t blame you — even the plan is still one of the better value-for-money services out there at R82/m. But your stubbornness is about to pay off. YouTube’s non-paying users are receiving a once-Premium feature: downloads. Feel good to be free It’s a change for the platform’s free users that’s gone mostly under the radar. Perhaps YouTube’s free users were too afraid to bring what might be a mistake to YouTube’s attention. That was until a Reddit user (u/Dude_Who_Does_Things) accidentally clicked the download button on…