Author: Trent Meikle

We have no doubts that South Africa’s luck concerning the continually dropping fuel price will run out eventually, but May is not that time. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has officially published the coming fuel price adjustments for May 2025, and they bring good news for motoring Saffas. Fuel for the soul (and car) As ever, you’ll need to wait until Wednesday, 7 May, before you can take advantage of the cheaper fuel prices (found below). The DMRE typically adjusts the country’s petrol and diesel pumps on the first Wednesday of the new month, and May is…

In a move that’s sure to keep certain basement dwellers away from any decent Vitamin D for another year, Rockstar Games has passed on some devastating news… and some good news, too, depending on how you look at it. Grand Theft Auto VI has an official release date of 26 May, 2026 – and that’s straight from the horse’s mouth. The bad news is that it’ll miss that 2025 release that the first (and only) trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI promised way back when, which was later shaved down to a more specific Spring 2025 release according to Rockstar’s…

There’s a reason Star Wars is still so ingrained into the zeitgeist, nearly fifty years later. It’s where it all began, and by ‘it’ we mean the adventure, the scale, and the tragedy that has reverberated over decades and will continue to for generations to come, cultivated by George Lucas’ ambitious epic space opera. You’d struggle to find a human alive who hasn’t at least heard of Star Wars or one of its many, many quotable lines that permeate language. Whether it’s “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for,” “May the Force be with you,” or Darth Vader’s most iconic line, that…

If you’ve been eagerly awaiting a price decrease to pick up an Xbox Series X/S nearly five years after its release, we’ve got some bad news. Microsoft announced that, starting today, 1 May, the price of its Xbox consoles, controllers, and even a couple of its choicest games would see a price bump. The announcement is made more frustrating by its suddenness, leaving potential customers scrambling. Seriously, if you had your eye on an already pricey Xbox console, we’d suggest you place those orders ASAP – before the distributors and secondhand sellers catch on. If you didn’t immediately click ‘Add…

In the last year (and four months, but who’s counting?), the Google Play Store went from housing roughly 3.4 million apps available to download on Android devices to just 1.8 million as of today. That’s no rounding error. This was a concerted effort from Google to purge nearly half (around 47%) of the store’s entire library, according to data from Appfigures, via TechCrunch. Apple, for reference, has seen a surge in the number of apps allowed on the App Store, taking its total offerings up to 1.64 million, up from 1.6 million in the same period. So what gives? Where…

Artificial intelligence (AI) and WhatsApp may be a combo devised in the fiery depths of oblivion, but that isn’t stopping Meta from expanding the technology’s reach inside the messenger. What started as simple AI-powered customer support soon transitioned to a full-blown Meta AI assistant living on your home screen. And now, the Facebook owner wants to fill every nook and cranny of your private chats with AI. Why not try out these totally secure AI features? Tucked away in a blog post announced during the company’s first-ever LlamaCon, Meta briefly mentioned something it calls “Private Processing” that’ll deliver in-chat AI…

YouTube just dropped its latest quarterly update, and it’s a boon to those who do most of their watching on a smart TV, PlayStation 4/5, and the Xbox Series X/S. Today, Google announced a whole host of new features for the app, mostly improving navigation and discovery with some updated ‘shelves’, a newfangled ‘Podcasts’ tab, and most importantly of all: a way to shun those damn Shorts. Top shelf stuff Let’s start with the shelves. These are how the YouTube app for TVs (and consoles) distinguishes recommended content into different categories that you might be interested in – typically starting…

After what proved to be a very stable week for South Africa’s fuel price economy, the Central Energy Fund (CEF) has provided the country with another round of petrol and diesel price predictions that paint a very pretty picture. Whether you drive a diesel guzzler or a petrol polisher, or even just want to stock up on some illuminating paraffin for a potentially long winter, you’re in luck. Fuelling our love (and our cars) That’s only if you can restrain your fuel-buying habits until next Wednesday, 7 May. That’s typically when the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) adjusts…

As Samsung draws closer to the launch of the next generation series of Watches, the usual leaks typical of a Samsung launch are springing up. The latest concerns the return of the ‘Classic’ moniker that we last saw on the Galaxy Watch 6 Series, before Samsung decided to pull an Apple and go Ultra. A new report from Xpertick reveals that a Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is in the works, judging by the still-unofficial device receiving Bluetooth SIG certification, and spotted bearing the model number SM-L505U. It’s not yet known whether the new Classic model will replace the Ultra, or…

While WhatsApp is always on the lookout for new features – perhaps something borrowed from Telegram or Signal – it toils endlessly to bring its less-looked-after versions up to scratch. The most neglected of the bunch is WhatsApp Web – the messenger’s web-based client, which still lacks one crucial feature: call support. WhatsApp Web on call Attempting to ring a mate using WhatsApp Web will prompt the user to download WhatsApp for Windows or Mac to get those features. That may soon change. Voice and video calls are finally wending their way to WhatsApp Web, as spotted by WABetaInfo. This follows…