Author: Trent Meikle

Amazon Web Services (AWS), upon which many, many internet-based services around the world rely, is currently experiencing a major outage that has rendered numerous websites, games, and banks — including Fortnite, Roblox, Canva, Snapchat, and many others — temporarily unusable. It’s unclear when the issue will be fixed. AWS is working on it, promise ⚠️ An outage affecting several services on the internet is also impacting Fortnite log-ins. We’re investigating this now, and will update you when we have more details. — Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) October 20, 2025 “We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in…

Captery-ing our interest Most tend not to bother with rechargeable AA and AAA batteries. That’s probably got something to do with the overlong charge times unless you’re spending big, and the general hassle associated. But an Italian startup by the name of Captery claims to be putting those worries to bed with a new Kickstarter campaign. The company reckons it’s developed a set of AA and AAA batteries that’ll fill in three minutes or less, and last for decades to come. It’s a highly ambitious project that involves using supercapacitor tech, which can withstand “continuous charge/discharge cycles with minimal deterioration compared to…

Nintendo’s Switch 2 sales are going swimmingly, if a report from Bloomberg is to be believed. The Japanese Mario-makers have reportedly told their suppliers to build 25 million Switch 2 units by March 2026. It’s easy to see why. The Nintendo Switch 2 is still basking in the warmth of its massively successful launch back in June, with sources familiar with the matter citing a continually climbing number of sales — even all these months later — for Nintendo’s sudden interest in quickly furthering the number of units available. Switch 2 on the rise The behemoth looks set to surpass even the…

Could this be it? Is the end of the Xbox as we know it? Maybe. But we can definitely say that this is the start of something new for Microsoft’s iconic brand, even if we aren’t sure where it’s headed. While this is technically Xbox’s first go at “creating” a gaming handheld, the ROG Xbox Ally X is Asus’ third time around the block. That means a couple of things. One, Asus has a pretty good handle on how to make these things by now, which makes for an excellent, if expensive, experience. And two… well, this is an Xbox,…

The MacBook Pro M4’s body is still cooling in the wake of the fruit company unveiling a newer, faster M5 model, and already rumours are flying of the next big thing: the M6 MacBook Pro. Those are courtesy of industry insider Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, whose intel is rarely wrong when it comes to Apple’s products. Return of the MacBook Pro And if the rumours are true, Apple is readying its next-gen MacBook Pro to feature an OLED touchscreen display, in addition to the M5’s natural successor. Seeing that Ming-Chi Kuo, another Apple insider, suggested something similar to Apple’s next…

The rumours were true. PlayStation’s PS Plus Extra and Deluxe tiers will be treated to one of the service’s better lineups for quite some time when they go live later this month. Silent Hill 2, Until Dawn (2024), and Yakuza: Like a Dragon are just the headliners for October’s Game Catalogue additions. Running up that Silent Hill (a deal with PS Plus) Before you go getting all excited, access to these titles (alongside hundreds of other games on the service, including God of War Ragnarök) is only available to customers with large enough wallets to shell out for the ‘Extra’ or ‘Deluxe’…

Concept phones are nothing new. Companies throw out fantastical ideas with no real plans to produce them in the real world. Not Honor, which just announced what it calls the ‘Robot Phone’, with a full unveiling scheduled for March 2026. From the front, it resembles any other smartphone. It’s only when you see the dystopic robot arm and accompanying camera sticking out of the camera bump that something starts to feel off. Wall-E vibes https://youtu.be/YB6j8tsFFkc The Honor Robot Phone doesn’t exist. Yet. All we can go on is the company’s CG (and almost certainly AI-generated?) teaser, with plans for a…

Apple’s first foray into the mixed-reality space with the Vision Pro feels like an eternity ago, and in Apple years, it was. The device was first announced in 2023, bearing the M2 chipset which has, as of this morning, been usurped by the bigger, leaner M5 chipset. It arrives first inside the refreshed Vision Pro, MacBook Pro, and iPad Pro. If the original Vision Pro didn’t exactly entice you with its far too-high R110,000 price, it’s unlikely the M5 upgrade will do the trick. Aside from a new Dual Knit strap that admittedly looks a whole lot more comfortable with…

It’s no secret that Apple had its M5 chipset in the oven for some time, and now it has called us down to the dinner table. The menu consists of new M5-powered devices, including the iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and the refreshed Vision Pro headset. The devices have yet to arrive for pre-order locally, though judging by the local iStore’s handling of this year’s iPhone 17 lineup, we don’t reckon South Africa will have to wait long. As ever, the M5 iPad Pro is available in 13in and 11in models. While the M5 chipset is the standout upgrade, which Apple claims offers…

Without a solid challenger present, we should consider ourselves lucky that YouTube functions as well as it does, even if the video player has felt a little… off lately. Today, Google announced that it was rolling out a major visual update to the platform globally this week, alongside some new quality-of-life upgrades to play around with. YouTube finally tackles its toughest opponent: YouTube The biggest upgrade headed to YouTube’s mobile, desktop, and TV users is also the first one users will notice after clicking on a video, or by simply looking at the image above. The updated video player, which…