Author: Trent Meikle

Sony has made good on its promise to expand the ‘bass-junkie’ ULT range that got us all riled up back in April. It showed off the new speakers in the flesh at a local event, including the ULT Field 3, ULT Field 5, and the beast that is the ULT Tower 9AC. And to sweeten the pot, it threw in the ULT Mic1 for good measure. Jobin Joejoe, Sony Middle East and Africa managing director, said, “It is such a pleasure to introduce new additions to the ULT Power Sound range in the South Africa market. It is hard to…

Google is finally reviving in-app private messaging on the YouTube mobile app. Google confirmed that the highly-requested DMs feature was part of an experiment “that makes it easy for you to share videos you love (long-form, Shorts and live streams) and have conversations about them directly on the YouTube mobile app.” YouTube DMs finally have a purpose Believe it or not, YouTube once offered up private, in-app direct messages (DMs) a couple of years back. It was largely underutilised, cluttering the front page with unnecessary icons. Despite all that, hardly anyone knew about or used the service. This was, of…

It seems like the internet breaks every other week these days. If it isn’t Amazon’s AWS sweeping out the web’s legs, then it’s a Cloudflare outage knocking down a chunk of the internet. Several users, including Stuff’s editorial team, have experienced load issues with websites like X, Canva, and DownDetector. That’s right — DownDetector. Sending up a Cloudflare If you’ve somehow managed to avoid having a Cloudflare error blasted in your face as you surfed the web this afternoon, count your lucky stars. Others haven’t been quite so lucky and have been left unable to access several websites, including X…

We can’t be certain that the arrival of South Africa’s first-ever 10Gbps home fibre line will eradicate all your online issues, but it might lessen the number of goals your mate lets in during a game of Rocket League. If it does, you’ll have Octotel to thank. Octotel leading the gigabit charge in SA Theoretically, and with ideal conditions, users should be able to download files at a blistering pace — breezing through the 96GB Black Ops 7 download on PS5 in roughly one minute and 37 seconds. We imagine there will be some degradation once installed in a customer’s home, though…

The Samsung Galaxy S26 may be the talk of the town by the time it eventually launches in 2026 (a little later than usual), but it’s the next-gen buds launching alongside it that have us interested. The existence of the Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro 4 is pretty much an open secret, but now we finally have an idea of what they look like. Galaxy Buds on all fours? Courtesy of Android Authority, Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro animations were spotted in internal OneUI 8.5 leaks, giving us a look at the new buds from a couple of angles, as well as…

It’s almost time for Geoff Keighley’s annual Kojima bootlicking session, AKA, The Game Awards. And, unlike last year’s showing — which somehow brought Elden Ring back to the conversation — the 2025 GOTY nominees are stacked. From Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to Hollow Knight: Silksong, there’s something for everybody. Silksong sweep at the Game Awards? We’re glad to report that no DLC has slipped through the cracks for the big awards at this year’s show. Shadow of the Erdtree caused a bit of a stir at the 2024 edition, not being a “complete” game, and the fact that the base Elden Ring game already took home…

If you had hoped that the predicted petrol and diesel prices for December 2025 would have seen a drop by mid-November, think again. The Central Energy Fund’s (CEF) latest round of predictions (captured 14 November) paints an even uglier picture for South African motorists — predicting a major 70-84c/l increase for diesel prices. Bad news for petrol prices in South Africa Unfortunately, December’s petrol prices don’t look that much better. The good news is that there’s still plenty of time for South Africa’s fortunes to change. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), which is responsible for adjusting the country’s…

Jack Dorsey’s ‘diVine’ puts human-made slop first It’s been more than seven years since Vine shut down, but not before it helped pave the way for the likes of TikTok and Instagram Reels. Many still consider Vine to be the peak of short-form content, challenging creativity by imposing a six-second limit on videos before TikTok put those ideas to bed. And now it’s coming back. Where the likes of TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts are riddled with AI-generated videos in 2025, ‘diVine’, as the reboot is called, emphasises human-only content. Born out of what we’d imagine is boredom, Jack Dorsey…

Disney+ is about to get a whole lot worse. If you had hoped to escape the onslaught of AI-generated slop that seems to plague every social media platform, Disney+ will not be your haven. During the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year earnings call for 2025, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed some big, big changes were coming. Disney plus AI? Some of them good — like the addition of “a number of game-like features,” possibly mimicking Netflix’s whole flow, and putting that partnership with Epic Games to good use. Others not so good — like adding user-promted, AI-generated slop for consumers to…

Netflix may have taken a small hiatus from the gaming scene, but it’s back, delivering games to your TV instead of just your mobile phone. Don’t expect anything too big yet. Netflix is focusing its attention on party games that can be easily controlled from a smartphone. No Red Dead Redemption just yet, in other words. Rent can’t be that high, Ken Jeong https://youtu.be/o0vMhc-V4qo Still, we can see these doing well for the streamer. Nearly everyone already subscribes to the streaming giant, which is the only requisite to get hold of its extensive mobile — and now TV — catalogue. From Pictionary to Boggle, Netflix Games got…