Author: Trent Meikle

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…

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…