Author: Trent Meikle

You’d be forgiven for entirely forgetting that Amazon has a South African presence now. Since Bezos’ retail empire launched on South African soil back in May, Takealot has generally upped its game, mainly thanks to its R40/m TakealotMore subscription. Now, it’s launching the Ultimate Checkout sale, mimicking Amazon’s infamous Prime Day sale better than even Amazon could. Takealot 2, Amazon… 0 There’s no use running to Takealot yet. The sale is expected to kick off on Wednesday, 24 July and will run until Sunday, 28 July. When the sale does eventually roll around, Takealot has promised customers will find deals…

Ryan Reynolds may have tried a little too hard where the Deadpool & Wolverine popcorn bucket is concerned in a bid to out-Denis that horrific Dune bucket (that we can’t stop thinking about), but Van Wilder has just upped his marketing game. Think we’re overselling it? Then you haven’t seen Deadpool’s bahookie on a controller yet, have you? Double cheeked up on a Thursday morning It’s actually perfectly ergonomic Introducing the Cheeky Controller designed by Deadpool.@Marvel Studios’ Deadpool and Wolverine, in theaters July 26 pic.twitter.com/0Yp0HgleF4 — Xbox (@Xbox) July 17, 2024 Yup. That’s Deadpool’s ass right on the back of…

If you’re tired of filling that room your girlfriend doesn’t care about with Lego bought from the same old faces online – in other words, Great Yellow Brick and Brick Up Africa – there’s now a new face you can stare at to complain about the price of the Great Deku Tree set for the umpteenth time (before buying it anyway). That would be Zando, a self-proclaimed “leading online shopping destination in South Africa.” Yup. Zando is officially one of South Africa’s retailers thanks to a partnership with Brick Up Africa CC and serves to broaden the company’s e-commerce ambitions,…

Of all the recent updates prophecised to come WhatsApp’s way, the one Meta just announced is likely to be the handiest of the lot – unless you’re an Android user awaiting the voice note transcription feature. But back to the announcement at hand. A ‘Favourites’ tab is finally coming to the messaging app, allowing users to separate their favourite contacts and groupchats without having to sift through a myriad of unwanted contacts first. Playing favourites Better yet, unlike the features still under development as so often reported by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is already rolling out the new feature to users everywhere. Don’t fret…

When Frank Herbert introduced Dune in 1965, the world read about his futuristic thought-controlled space navigation systems and large-scale teleporters with envy. More than fifty years later, humanity has finally cribbed Herbert’s ideas for real-life use. Researchers from Cornell University have designed an actual ‘stillsuit’. What’s a ‘stillsuit’, we hear you ask? We wish we could tell you these are suits designed to give their wearers immense strength or something equally exciting. Instead, we’re here to let you know that future astronauts will probably drink their own urine during spacewalks, should NASA ever ratify the tech for future missions. The future…

Sonor Arc (2) When Sonos isn’t busying itself with what it does worst (relaunching mobile apps), it’s fortunately slogging away at what it does best: building soundbars. Sonos hasn’t explicitly said so, but we’re making an educated guess here that the soundbar-maker is working on its next big thing. Oh, and because a report from The Verge told us that it’s officially working on a sequel to 2020’s Sonos Arc. We even have pictures! Sonos has gone through the rigamarole of codenaming the soundbar ‘Lasso’, but we all know it’s simply going to slap a ‘Gen 2’ to the end of…

It’s astoundingly difficult to pick up a decent foldable smartphone that doesn’t have Samsung’s branding plastered all over it. That dominance has led to major over-confidence on Samsung’s end, whose fans continue to lap it up despite the massive prices. You could argue the same goes for Honor’s Magic V foldable line-up, but at least Honor attempts to pack as much tech into their slim bodies as possible. Enter the Honor Magic V3. …in China. Yup, the company just announced the successor to the superbly slim Honor Magic V2 that we had the pleasure of stretching out just a few…

You haven’t truly earned that R65/m Spotify subscription if you’ve never had the “We noticed a new login to your account” email pop up in the dead of night before citing some location in India followed by a desperate scramble to find a new password you haven’t yet used before (and will promptly forget the following week). But if the reports from Reddit users are true, 2FA (two-factor authentication) on Spotify should finally end that. Two-factor Spotify can’t hurt you: Well, we say “should” because apparently, Spotify hasn’t quite figured out the whole 2FA thing entirely yet. It’s at least opted…

Was Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League that bad? Apparently so, if Amazon is giving it away for free next week, just six months after launch. Stuff’s gamers, fortunately, didn’t subject themselves to Rocksteady Studio’s dumpster fire of a live-service title that spits on the ashes of its Arkhamverse ancestors. But even we won’t pretend we’re above adding it to our accounts when it goes free from 16 July 2024. You won’t want to miss this Amazon isn’t just giving away a free copy of Suicide Squad (thank goodness). It’s also handing out codes for Chivalry II and Rise of the Tomb Raider – both of which…

When we say we’ve genuinely been awaiting the launch of a voice note transcription feature from WhatsApp for the past three years now, we aren’t joking. We should explain that iOS users have had the feature since early 2023, while Android users have had to suffer through numerous “uhmms” and “ahhhs” (you know who you are) in the build-up to the feature’s Android release. No longer, according to a fresh report from WABetaInfo. Committing a serious transcription The update was spotted in the WhatsApp beta version 2.24.15.5 for Android and has already snuck its way onto several beta users’ devices.…