Author: Trent Meikle

Is anybody else feeling the uncomfortable tingles of Déjà vu? Gauteng’s government is, once again, asking for your financial support promising the end of e-tolls (but for real this time, guys). You know, the money-grubbing eyesores that landed on South Africa’s highways back in December 2013. Ever since, we’ve heard countless falsehoods promising the demise of e-tolls, though nothing official has ever made it past the planning phase. Despite the continual threats to scrap the system, the government continued sending out the bills, eventually promising refunds to those law-abiding citizens who continued paying. Goodbye forever, e-tolls. You won’t be missed…

February, for those familiar with MultiChoice and more specifically DStv, is not a happy time. We hope you’re still riding that Valentine’s Day high because there’s a good chance you’ll need a shoulder to cry on after you get a look at the company’s latest bout of annual price hikes — some of the largest we’ve seen in years — which are set to go into effect from 1 April 2024. The luckiest of DStv’s customers, also known as EasyView subscribers, won’t be feeling the sting of a price hike this year, holding onto that R30/m price tag. Others haven’t…

Babe, new Switch 2 information just dropped It’s official. 2024 is over. The Nintendo Switch 2 has reportedly been delayed, and we won’t pretend the news didn’t leave us a little distraught. Sure, Nintendo’s got a couple of games waiting in the 2024 wings, but nothing it can confidently expect to carry the console until Q1 2025. That’s the revised release date the company is targeting, according to several outlets, including Bloomberg. Initially, Nintendo was expected to put their new console on shelves before 2024’s end. There was even an unveiling pencilled in for March 2024. Bloomberg’s sources, saddled with “knowledge…

Last night, Microsoft waded into the world of podcasting in an attempt to assuage its fans about the future of Xbox. The last few weeks have been riddled with rumours of the company giving up on the idea of exclusivity and bringing its games to the PlayStation and Switch. It all started with news of Hi-Fi Rush’s departure to the Switch, before eventually snowballing into grandiose ideas of Starfield penetrating PlayStation hardware. Despite having what we assume were good intentions to confirm the company’s solid plans, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer still left some players in doubt after a cryptic discussion with The…

If you’re an avid follower of the metric system, there’s a good chance you’ve been watching the hype around Apple’s Vision Pro slowly dissipate from afar since it hit American shelves on 2 February 2024. Those imperialists have been walking around with $3,500 tech plastered on their faces and… we’re jealous. Not because of their fascination to measure stuff using Elk, but because we want that $3,500 tech on our own faces. Thus far, Apple’s been awfully quiet regarding the Vision Pro’s international ambitions and the sort of price it’ll fetch when it does eventually turn up elsewhere. Africantechno has…

Elections must be right around the corner. We know this, not because of a simple Google search, but because the government has been all the more focused on stamping out crime than ever before. At least, since the last big push in 2019. Part of the new wave of crime-stamping involves dolling out brand-new, “tamper-proof” number plates to everyone in South Africa. Yup, everyone. Gauteng’s got new plates You might’ve seen eNCA’s interview with Panyaza Lesufi, Gauteng’s Premier, where he went a little more in-depth on the government’s recent partnership with Vumacam that’ll see it tap into a massive feed of…

There’s a decent chance BYD isn’t part of your vocabulary yet. Why would it be? It’s a Chinese-based company with an acronym as its name that focuses primarily on selling electronics and electric vehicles… in China. Sure, it’s got grips in a few countries, South Africa included, but we wouldn’t call it a household name. Yet, anyway. Stick around a while longer, and that’ll be changing. According to MyBroadband, BYD Automotive has plans to launch its cheapest EV — the BYD Seagull — in South Africa. You know, where electricity flows freely. Only, it wouldn’t be dubbed the BYD Seagull. A…

It just never ends, does it? After the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s recent battle with the country’s petrol and diesel prices — to which the country lost in spectacular fashion — you’d think we’d be afforded a reprieve, however slight. Well… that isn’t happening. At least that’s what the Central Energy Fund (CEF) had to say on the subject, having just dropped a fresh batch of predictions on our heads. Fortunately, there’s still plenty of time to turn things around and knock that price down. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy — the ones responsible for the…

If you’ve driven around Gauteng for any length of time, there’s a good chance you’ve spotted at least one of those Vumacam-branded cam stations dotted around the place. They’re part of what Vumacam calls the SafeCity initiative, and now it’s getting the government involved. It’ll be giving Gauteng’s Provincial Government immediate access to its extensive camera network. All in the name of fighting crime and promoting safety across the province, of course. Vumacam level: over 6,000! The partnership, announced at a press briefing in Milpark this morning, will see Gauteng benefitting from that over 6,000-strong camera network and “advanced crime-fighting…

Think back to 2019. COVID hadn’t yet turned us into gormless TikTok-scrolling beasts but we also only had a single device that could send WhatsApp messages at a time. We were happy. Once Meta introduced the wonders of linked device functionality, we began getting greedy. We were a part of that crowd that couldn’t understand why Locked Chats didn’t appear so when accessed from a secondary device. All that griping seems to have gotten through, however. WhatsApp is bringing Locked Chat parity to the numerous devices your account is available on. Finally. That’s what WABetaInfo had to say on the subject,…