Author: Trent Meikle

If you thought Xbox’s current system for snitching on your fellow gamers was just too difficult or drawn out, Microsoft’s recent announcement of a new and expanded voice reporting feature should fix that. The feature is aimed towards those players that can’t handle being scored on (nor the subsequent torrent of ‘What a save!’ chats), often resorting to crude and sometimes even rude language in a game’s in-game voice chat.   Reportedly new The idea is simple. Rather than reporting a user’s account the old-fashioned way (that had no proof), Xbox is giving players the option to retroactively capture a 60-second…

Are you an esports enthusiast? Based in Gauteng or Western Cape? Keen to be crowned “SA’s best gamer?” Then you’re in luck. The Shift Gaming Experience is once again making the rounds across the two province’s malls, in search of someone to hand that crown to. The Shift Gaming Experience is an initiative brought to you by Hyprop and MTN, dubbing itself “one of the largest national gaming tournaments.” “To date, the tournament has been a roaring success, with thousands of gamers, supporters and spectators visiting these shopping centres to be part of the experience. Our aim is to create…

After spending the last three (and a half) years as the black sheep of the smartphone industry, Huawei Technologies might soon reclaim its seat at the table. How? With the return of 5G technology in its devices, according to a report from the folks over at Reuters. 5G is 5g… That’s if Reuters’ sources are to be believed, of course. The news in question comes from three third-party research firms that primarily cover China’s smartphone sector, though all have opted to remain anonymous. They mention that Huawei has the potential to secure its own 5G chipsets “using its own advances…

Just like a bad rash you can’t manage to shake; Stage 6 load shedding has returned. Unfortunately, Eskom isn’t the type to make jokes — this is really happening. The news comes straight from the horse’s Twitter account, citing the increased shed to the loss of generating units overnight. “Stage 4 loadshedding will be implemented at 07:00 this morning [12 July] until 14:00,” the power-denier said. Don’t get too comfortable, because it followed that statement up with: “Thereafter, Stage 6 loadshedding will be implemented from 14:00 today until 05:00 on Thursday.” At least it’s not Stage 8 load shedding #LoadsheddingUpdate…

Been feeling empty lately? That’s probably got something to do with the lack of football, English or otherwise. Hopefully, Showmax’s recent announcement, that it will be live-streaming the upcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup, might fix that. Hoping for a miracle The tournament is kicking off on 20 July this year, sticking to the middle-of-the-year schedule that last year’s Men’s tournament didn’t quite manage to pull off. This time ‘round, it’s being held across two nations – Australia and New Zealand. Unlike the 2022 World Cup, South Africa is a part of the conversation along with Morocco, Zambia and Nigeria. You’ll…

Stand aside, Twitter, Threads has 100m sign-ups Threads, Mark Zuckerberg’s retaliatory response to Elon Musk’s Twitter has taken the world by storm, garnering 100 million sign-ups since its early release on Thursday, 6 July. It has maintained its steady flow of signups, with Zuckerberg showing off its nearly 30 million sign-ups in the first 24 hours of the app’s life. The question now is if Meta can keep it up. We’re thinking… not. Unless, of course, Meta can bring Threads up to scratch. In its current state, Threads has little hope of competing. To do so, it’ll need to add…

We’re sure you’re all caught up on AI at this point. How can you not be? It’s plastered across every facet of the internet – Stuff included. It’s inescapable, at least until 2024’s next buzzword takes off and puts artificial intelligence out of everyone’s mind. Until then, we’re indulging humanity’s current AI obsession with this guide on how to use Bing’s AI Chat features on your Android smartphone in almost every app. Look past the Bing branding and may you find Microsoft’s Chat-GPT integrated tools – like its SwiftKey keyboard, in this case – quite handy. The new beta version…

Step aside ChatGPT, it’s GPT-4’s turn to hog the internet’s bandwidth, with the large multimodal model’s creator OpenAI confirming earlier today that its latest crack at the text-generating artificial intelligence would be made generally available, through its API. Not for your average Joe OpenAI’s talk of GPT-4’s “general availability” doesn’t mean just anyone will get access to the model right away. In its announcement, the company mentioned that it would be made accessible to any of those developers “with a history of successful payments can access the GPT-4 API with 8K context.” As for those that haven’t funneled money into…

Threads, Instagram’s Twitter rival, has launched. Like, officially. We’ve spent most of our morning on Instagram’s very own Twitter clone, creating an official profile and scrolling through the hundreds of “Threads just launched” memes that are currently all the platform is good for. Despite that, we’ve yet to become disenchanted with Threads (never say never). But for those that have already given up on the Twitter alternative, listen up: deleting a Threads profile will also delete the linked Instagram account. No, we’re not joking. And neither is Instagram. Handle with care That’s because of Threads’ intrinsic links to Instagram, which…

All it took was Twitter’s downfall and an alleged cage match between two of the world’s richest people to get Threads, Instagram’s answer to Elon Musk’s somewhat-erratic venture, off the ground. And today, Instagram launched the new social media platform – a little earlier than expected – on iOS and Android. The platform’s desktop site is live, too, though we couldn’t get past the screensaver homepage. You need an Instagram account? It begs the question; is it worth taking time out of your work-filled morning to download the app and join in the conversation? If your job is to use…