Author: Trent Meikle

The dust has settled on Samsung’s second Unpacked event for 2025, which paved the way for its new AI-packed Fold and Flip 7 foldables. Almost as an afterthought, we also got a look at the South Korean outfit’s new wearables: the Galaxy Watch 8 Series. Unsurprisingly, Samsung’s 2025 wearables features even more AI, more health tech, and most importantly, the return of the rotating bezel. The company also took the opportunity to debut a hardly refreshed Galaxy Watch Ultra. We’ll give it about as much fanfare as Samsung did. Alongside a new colour (Titanium Blue!), the company also added more…

After a rough month for South African motorists, early petrol price forecasts courtesy of the Central Energy Fund (CEF) tell us the price hikes aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. For some drivers, anyway. According to the CEF’s latest predictive snapshot (captured 8 July 2025), diesel drivers are due for yet another hefty price hike at the pumps this August, while petrol drivers may just be in for a 20c/l treat instead. Diesel drivers, listen up Of course, we should mention that these figures are not final and are subject to change. The CEF, an energy company reporting to the Department…

While we all wait for Naughty Dog’s next big thing, the nearly forty-year-old gaming company has kept itself busy on what is arguably its magnum opus, The Last of Us Part II Remastered. While many criticised the content contained within the sprawling storyline, a few took issue with the oftentimes choppy, non-linear storytelling. If they did, they probably just weren’t paying attention. Either way, Naughty Dog has delivered yet another update for Part II that’ll allow players to experience the game chronologically, as never before. The new ‘Chronological mode’ is part of a free update, reserved for owners of the…

Nobody is denying that the Apple Pencil is one of the best touchscreen stylus devices around, offering an uncanny tactile feel that you’ll seldom find elsewhere. But after Apple threw a USB-C port in, it begged the question: what’s next? According to a fresh patent filed by Apple, a Pencil that’ll work just about anywhere, no screen required. Proper pencil-pusher Yesterday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple a patent that mentions this next-generation leap for the Apple Pencil, mentioning the addition of optical sensors and a trackball that would enable the device to work without a touch-sensitive screen…

Home internet provider Rain is running low on internet karma, so it’s got a wacky solution to get back into the good graces of the news cycle after it hiked prices back in June. What’s the grand idea? Release the Loop router, which isn’t so much a router as it is an Android tablet masquerading as an innocent internet device. We think. Rain envisions its customers taking the Loop with them wherever they go, first as a portable internet solution (although leaving it at home is just as acceptable), and a pair of stereo speakers second. It’s even got a…

An Apple M5 a day Like clockwork, Apple has its sights set on releasing a new M5 chipset, developed in-house, which is reportedly being made with TSMC’s third-gen 3nm process. That should provide just enough of a boost to performance and battery life to justify Apple’s next round of products. You know the drill by now, right? You can probably expect the new M5 chip to be available in most of Apple’s devices over the coming year, but according to MacRumors, five products are set to get the upgrade as soon as this year. One of those is a new…

Meta’s been on a losing streak recently. Not only did it recently confirm that ads have breached WhatsApp, but a new report from Business Insider reveals that the messenger is investigating new tactics designed to drive engagement across WhatsApp and FB Messenger. Instead of simply improving the experience, it’s working to allow AI-powered chatbots to send unsolicited messages to the app’s human users. The Zucc, according to guidelines from data labelling firm Alignerr and seen by Business Insider, wants the chatbots on his platforms to be more proactive. The goal of “Project Omni”, as it’s known internally, is to “provide…

Helldivers 2 really is the gift that keeps on giving. After enjoying a solid year on PlayStation and PC, Arrowhead Game Studios has announced that the fight for Super Earth will continue on Xbox this August, making it one of the very few PlayStation-published games to hit a Microsoft console. It’s a no-brainer for Sony, given that the game’s loyal fan base continues to grow thanks to a steady stream of free content updates, even today. Looks like democracy’s back on the menu, boys https://youtu.be/QmoO17UZE48 If you somehow missed out on all the hype during the game’s massive launch in…

The world may pay more attention to the work being done by Meta in the smart glasses space, but what about the people who don’t have five figures for a glorified pair of specs? These are the sort of clientele companies like Colmi are targeting, which admittedly may have drifted too far in the opposite direction. We’re talking about Colmi’s G06 smart glasses, which demand a not-minuscule sacrifice of R2,000 before they’ll sit on your face. We’ve spent a couple of weeks with Colmi’s (technically) budget offering that is part protection from the sun, part Bluetooth earpiece from 2006 (and part…

How might Apple make its MacBook more affordable, and thus more appealing to new customers? By sticking a more affordable chip inside, silly. According to notable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, that’s exactly what the Big Fruit Company has planned, with the idea being to include a less powerful A18 Pro chipset inside the device. For the love of MacBooks That, if you’re at all familiar with the Apple ecosystem, is the SoC found inside the iPhone 16 Pro. This would make it the first MacBook to be powered by an iPhone chipset, breaking the company’s streak of using its homegrown…