Author: Trent Meikle

We’re living in the age of renewable energy. Or at least, that’s the plan. South Africa still places a massive reliance on coal, with no real sources of green energy funnelling into people’s homes that aren’t a result of private expenditure. Even so, the EV industry hasn’t slowed its growth. It’s only grown. Mini, in partnership with Red Bull, is adding to that growth with the unveiling of the first Mini-branded solar-powered EV charging station. A gesture nonetheless Of course, this was all done in the name of PR the planet’s health, as a part of Mini’s overarching Big Love…

Updates to Meta’s WhatsApp have always been hit-or-miss. The company likes to test out a lot of new features but those can spend several months in development before they make it to the live build. If they even make it out of the testing phase. Some, like the recent revamp of the Windows desktop app, fall into the former category. Others, like the newsletter update… let’s just leave it at that. With that in mind, the folks over at WABetaInfo have unearthed two new updates that could make their way to the app. The first expands on an existing security…

Any young’uns reading this ‘ere article won’t remember the hassle of havin’ to use a cable to transfer files. Since then, we’ve come a long way – for the better. Apple is currently leading the file-transfer industry with AirDrop, the gold standard for Apple users. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, Apple’s monopoly is soon to become a duopoly with Google’s launch of Nearby Share on Windows. Nearby Share is within reach For whatever reason, Google has only confirmed the Windows Nearby Share beta for the US “and most countries globally.” Rather than telling us which…

Load shedding who? Despite constantly suffering at the hands of load shedding, BMW seems willing to look past the country’s troubled power generation history because it hopes to manufacture electric cars in South Africa, according to Sunday Times. The German manufacturer of cars and, apparently, indicators, is reportedly in talks with the South African government surrounding the current policies in place where EVs are concerned. Specifically, BMW South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen is in talks with the country’s minister of Trade, Industry, and Competition, Ebrahim Patel. “We are encouraged that minister Ebrahim Patel is focusing on that and are…

Checkers Sixty60 has been on the rise ever since its launch in 2019, predating the Covid lockdown by just a few months. Post-lockdown, however, the app has only continued to grow. Bolstered by its success, Sixty60 has grown bold and wearisome of other competitors that are catching up. To keep customers coming back for more, Sixty60 has introduced a ‘service guarantee’ – which will see customers get their R35 delivery fee back if certain requirements aren’t met. Customers that receive their goods 30 minutes late or “receive less than 80% of your first-choice products,” will be eligible for the refund,…

Mayday, mayday: DStv has announced it will not be broadcasting the world’s biggest domestic cricket league – the Indian Premier League (IPL). To make matters worse, the broadcaster only tweeted out the news of the loss yesterday, just under 24 hours before the inaugural match of the 2023 season is set to begin. Oh, but it gets worse. So much worse. DStv’s annual price hike is set to kick in from tomorrow, 1 April, charging customers more for the right to not watch the IPL — a feature that many customers pay for. A bigger blow than the wolf’s own 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓:…

Before we begin this review, we have a confession to make: we’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons. Like… ever. You may call this base treachery, demand our heads and possibly even ridicule us. We understand the frustration. But following the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, we certainly feel like we’ve been missing out. On what, though, we’re not so sure. Within the first five minutes, it’s obvious that Honor Among Thieves isn’t taking itself seriously. At its core, this is a popcorn flick. At the behest of coming across as an apologist for B-tier films, Honor Among Thieves…

Logitech, famed peripherals manufacturer, has launched Zone Learn, a kid-friendly take on the company’s original Zone headset. The headset is marketed at kids, specifically in the case of online learning. No longer will you have to suffer through *ahem* that guy’s poor mic audio at the beginning of a lesson or meeting. You can thank Zone Learn’s driver optimization of speech intelligibility for that. No more cheap plastic Kids’ headsets are often… bad. They’re usually designed with cheap plastic in mind. And don’t even get us started on sub-par sound quality. But at least they’ve got Hello Kitty on them,…

Sky islands. Constructs. The fusing of anything and everything. Mr Aonuma’s delightful voice being covered by perhaps the most annoying English dub of all time. For anyone that forwent the chance to see the first gameplay session of Nintendo’s upcoming title The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – you’re probably a bit confused as to what the heck we’re talking about. Tears of the Kingdom If you are one of the few that didn’t watch, You should correct that. Like… now. Go on, we’ll wait. We’re only 44 days away from the release of the game informally known as…

Often derided during the Covid pandemic, Microsoft’s Teams app has been rebuilt, it says, to be faster, use less memory and, well, be a whole lot less sucky. Okay, it didn’t say all of that. We added that last bit. But for the most part, it seems an apt description of the Teams revamp. Any troubles you may have with the app can now be solved with a simple Panado, rather than a trip to the emergency room. You can’t spell Teams without AI Microsoft claims Teams has been rebuilt from the ground up. It’s been “built on a foundation…