Author: Trent Meikle

Today is a big day for one of South Africa’s biggest airlines, FlySafair. It’s the local carrier’s eleventh birthday, and if you’re familiar with the airline’s previous birthday celebrations, you’ll probably already be going to the website to pick out this year’s holiday destination, or try to, at least. As it’s FlySafair’s eleventh birthday, domestic tickets are selling for R11 a pop – no strings attached. This is Spinal Tap FlySafair https://youtu.be/Ze8ldOrv3VI The sale opened at 09h00 on the morning of Wednesday, 7 May, and offers 50,000 one-way tickets “across its domestic routes,” that are valid until 30 November 2025.…

The government may have spared wallets when it ditched a nationwide VAT hike, but Vodacom has turned up to turn that smile upside down. South Africa’s second-best mobile network (for now) has announced its annual adjustments for voice and data out-of-bundle (OOB) rates for customers. It could be worse, we guess? Nobody is safe. The adjustments, set to come into effect from 1 June 2025, were announced on the operator’s website and through an SMS sent out to all customers yesterday: “As part of our annual update, there will be a 2-cent increase to out-of-bundle voice & data rates from…

What year is it? Judging by the state of the gaming industry, you might be led to believe that it’s 2006. That’s due to Oblivion making a comeback, and now, Gears of War: Reloaded, a reimagining of the classic Xbox title, is set to take up even more of your time, with one major difference – it’s coming to PlayStation. Microsoft is eschewing the ‘remaster in secret’ practice that made Oblivion such a smashing success, instead announcing a short wait until 26 August 2025. It has, however, stuck with a cheaper price tag of $40 that’ll apply to all consoles, including PlayStation…

Lights, camera… War! Donald Trump’s ongoing tariff war has just claimed another blameless victim: film. Specifically, those films that are produced outside of the United States will now be forced to foot 100% tariff hikes the President has just introduced, all in the name of resurrecting American cinema, which is supposedly dying “a very fast death.” “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “This is a concerted effort by other…

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…