Author: Trent Meikle

If you’ve yet to see what is arguably one of HBO’s best-ever television shows, we recommend you fix that as soon as possible by making your way over to Showmax and turning on Silicon Valley. It’s a show so crammed full of jokes and equally dramatic moments that will not only have you busting a gut multiple times an episode, but also have you invested in the characters and, most importantly, this ultra-realistic tech world on display. It’s no wonder that Silicon Valley is as good as it is with Mike Judge at the helm, who is behind some of the best series…

We’ve got some bad news for all those still subscribed to Netflix, and especially bad news for anyone who’s a bit late to the Netflix train. The streaming giant has quietly hiked its subscription fees overnight – and has yet to inform all its customers of the change. These aren’t minimal hikes, either, with some going up by as much as 20%. A low blow from Netflix Even with a Premium subscription at hand, Netflix has yet to warn us of the change, instead updating its website to reflect the new prices, which affect the Mobile, Standard, and Premium tiers.…

Even if you’re fed up with Spotify’s continual lack of hi-res audio or YouTube Music’s atrocious UI, customers are typically loyal to a single music streaming service because that’s where their music is. Sure, there are third-party services that can help, but none that we trust to get the job done right. In a bid to get these loyal customers over to Apple Music, the streamer is rolling out functionality to do just that. Goodbye Spotify, hello Apple Music It’s unknown whether this is part of some experimental test from Apple or if the feature is rolling out. Either way,…

South Africa has, so far, avoided the tyrannical fist of Netflix’s more affordable “with ads” tier since it debuted elsewhere back in 2022, but we don’t expect that to be the case for much longer. During the streamer’s Upfront presentation, it provided some insight on its recent ad-ventures, and the results aren’t good. For us, that is. Ad nauseam Netflix reports that around 94 million active monthly subscribers around the world now subscribe to the ‘Basic with Ads’ tier since its launch three years ago. That’s more than double the figure the company reported just a year ago, and it…

It’s been a rough ride for the long-awaited remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, but it seems like the game is nearly ready for release, judging by Ubisoft’s comments in its latest earnings call. The game was initially meant to be released in 2021, but suffered at least three public delays since, one of which involved handing over development to its team in Canada, which reportedly saw the game started over from scratch. We got the Prince of Persia remake before GTA 6? https://youtu.be/s9_WrUySsnw Ubisoft hasn’t quite committed to an official release date yet, but it has at…

It seems like just about everyone has an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) these days, but even we were surprised to see that Spar Group was getting into the game. The group has officially launched Spar Mobile, developed in partnership with megsApp, another local MVNO that piggybacks off the MTN network. While many MVNOs struggle to pick up traction locally, particularly in the early stages of their life, Spar Mobile might just have what it takes to really detract from the hold that other networks like Vodacom, Cell C, and MTN have on this country. How? By handing out free…

It’s about time Android got some love and attention, and Google will oblige with a new design philosophy known as ‘Material 3 Expressive’, building upon the roots implanted when it debuted the ‘Material You’ makeover alongside Android 12 nearly four years ago. Announced at this year’s Google I/O show, the search giant plans to make Android more reactive, customisable, animated, and generally easier on the eyes. Making Android pretty again It’s not out just yet, but it’ll be available to all Android devices as part of the Android 16 and Wear OS 6 updates, due out later this year. Until…

In a move that we’re frankly astonished has taken this long to come to fruition, Audible will extend its already vast selection of audiobooks by conjuring new narrators out of thin air. That’s not some vague hint about Bezos’ lizard powers, but instead the company’s decision to dish out “fully integrated, end-to-end AI production technology” to whip up an audiobook in record time. *audible groan* You read that right. Why spend valuable time and money seeking out and paying real-life human narrators when you can pass off the task onto artificial intelligence (AI)? Audible’s reasoning is to help unknown creators…

While what seems to be the rest of the world fawns over the ray-traced body sweat and jiggle physics (don’t lie) seen in Rockstar Games’ GTA VI trailer 2, we’re more interested in the news that the company may have a GTA IV remaster or port in the pipeline to hold fans over in light of the series’ delay to May 2026. No complaints here. Give me Liberty City, or give me death! It makes sense. For whatever reason, one of Rockstar Games’ best-ever titles is still shackled to the PS3 era of consoles, without any proper support for Niko Bellic’s story…

Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge is finally here, and it’s every bit as thin as the company and several hands-on reviews said it was. There’s no doubt Samsung’s cooked up an impressive bit of engineering here, but it begs the question: is an ultra-thin smartphone really worth the hit to the S25 Series’ already poor battery life? Instinct tells us no, but we’ll wait to get our hands on the thing before judging it too harshly. Covered in titanium, the Galaxy S25 Edge promises to be the perfect blend of premium and ‘affordable’, bringing with it the same performance as the rest…