Author: Trent Meikle

As part of a huge R340 million investment in infrastructure, Vodacom is planning an expansion in 5G coverage in the Northern Cape and Free State. As it stands, there are very few sites across both provinces. After Vodacom is done, it’ll have tripled its number of sites, bringing the total up to 58. Hello 5G The few 5G sites in the two provinces will also be receiving an upgrade to the hardware, bringing better network resilience with it. “Our network rollout programme last year brought Internet to many communities in the region for the first time. This financial year, we…

Have you ever felt bad about screenshotting a meme you’ve seen on Twitter? No! Because you’re not crazy. Or, you’d rather send it onward to a different social media, or save it for yourself later. Twitter wants this to change. Some users have begun to see pop-ups asking them to “Share Tweet instead” once they make the screenshot gesture. The answer is no, Twitter. In fact, we’ll be screenshotting our memes more than usual, thanks. Screenshot to your heart’s content Twitter doesn’t want you to screenshot tweets anymore It wants active users on platform viewing tweets INSTEAD of via screenshots…

Microsoft’s Edge, Bing (ew) and a new Office app known as Microsoft Designer will all be receiving DALL-E 2 integration. Microsoft announced the new app and DALL-E 2 integration at yesterday’s Surface event. DALL-E 2, if you haven’t already heard, is OpenAI’s AI-powered text-to-photo generator. Throw in a prompt and it will try its best to spit out an image that matches the text. Let’s put AI in everything, what could go wrong? The newly announced Designer app started as a feature on PowerPoint. It suggests design ideas to help get the creative juices flowing. That won’t be changing when…

It had to happen eventually. It’s just unfortunate that it had to happen in the month before Christmas. But, we had a good run. Well, petrol drivers did. Diesel drivers… not so much. For the month of November though, both petrol and diesel drivers are suffering the same fate – rising fuel prices. To be clear, these numbers are not final. They’re the Central Energy Fund’s (CEF) predictions captured on 12 October, based on factors such as the international fuel prices and the Rand/Dollar exchange that South Africa uses to make its purchases. The Department of Energy will make November’s…

Good news everyone. We never thought we’d hear ourselves say that for the continuation of load shedding, but here we are. Eskom has confirmed stage 2 will be sticking around until at least the end of the week. After that… we’re heading back to stage 1. Cue the applause. #POWERALERT1 Stage 2 loadshedding will continue to be implemented on Wednesday and Thursday at 16:00 –00:00 and be reduced to Stage 1 on Friday pic.twitter.com/P84AFQBDuy — Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) October 12, 2022 It’s not over yet “Due to the persistent shortage of generation capacity, stage 2 load shedding will continue…

The Meta Quest Pro is real, despite our (and Meta’s own employees’) wishes. And the worst part? It’ll set you back $1500 (roughly R27,000). Mark Zuckerberg  officially revealed the headset on Tuesday, saying it’s aimed at “making the metaverse a reality.” On a quest to be bad The Quest Pro is Meta’s follow-up to the Quest 2, a far cheaper VR headset that didn’t cost more than two PlayStation 5’s to own. Zuckerberg claims that the Pro model was designed for work, rather than the VR headsets’ common use – gaming. “It’s work-focused”, Zuckerberg told reporters in Washington in late…

“Welcome to another episode of the Bro Jogan Experience” is the welcome you’ll hear in this fictional podcast between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs. Now, you might have noticed a problem with that last sentence. “It’s not called the Bro Jogan Experience” and you’re absolutely right. There’s also the matter of Steve Jobs not being alive anymore. That doesn’t matter to Play.ht, a company that sells its voice synthesis services to the highest bidders. “Jamie, dig up Steve Jobs real quick” The podcast begins with fake Joe Rogan introducing his next guest, the late Steve Jobs. Of course, it was…

Just two weeks after announcing its partnership with Showmax, Vodacom is back at it again – this time, teaming up with Amazon Prime Video. Customers under the prepaid and contract umbrellas will have access to cheaper streaming deals, with the bonus of some mobile data to start watching. Primed to take the market by storm Customers looking to save on Amazon Prime Video can only do so through the Prime Video Mobile Edition which limits users to one mobile device and caps the quality to standard definition. This is fine, considering you’re paying R60/month for a subscription, with the first…

Have you ever been in a group chat of 512 people and thought ‘There aren’t enough people in here. We should add another 512.’ If you have, that’s pretty weird. But, your dreams are coming true. WhatsApp is increasing the cap on group chats to allow 1,024 users to join a single group, up from 512. Mash that mute button  Just the thought of returning to your phone to find over 1,000+ messages waiting scares us. Still, it’s a far cry from Telegram’s 200,000 group cap, although that’s aimed at business and enterprise users. It’s possible that we could see…

YouTube is changing how users identify themselves, forcing unique handles onto us. This is standard practice for most social media platforms – but not for YouTube. Users will soon be known as @InsertNameHere, across both channels and Shorts. Please, please, pick a sensible username. Don’t fly off the handle Channel names won’t be disappearing, but the creators behind them will be unique handles. It’s likely that the change was brought in to crack down on the number of impersonator accounts on the platform. “We want to ensure creators can craft an identity as unique as their content while giving viewers…