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Google is killing off its Trips app in August 2019 and rolling many of its features into Google’s ‘travel’ service and Google Maps.

How will climate change remake our world in the 21st century? Will we be able to adapt and survive? As with many things, the past is a good guide for the future. Humans have experienced climate changes in the past that have transformed their environment – studying their response could tell us something about our own fate.

So you want to smell like a gamer, do you? Contrary to popular stereotype, gamers smell just like everyone else. But, just like everyone else, your mileage may vary (particularly on the final day of the rAge LAN). There’s a specific gamer smell on the way, however, courtesy of Microsoft Xbox and Lynx — the Unilever brand that we know in South Africa as Axe. 

So you followed along on Twitter or on Apple’s live-stream, or perhaps even here at Stuff. You know that there are upgrades coming to Apple’s iDevices with the pending launch of iOS 13 and the tablet-specific iPadOS. But unless you’ve got the right devices, you might be in for a little heartache. 

The more tech companies know about their users, the more effectively they can direct them to goods and services that they are likely to buy. The more companies know about their users, the more competitive they are in the market.

The first problem I encountered, as I gave up Google for a week, was that I couldn’t get my email. As the possibility of living without Android and Google services emerged as the US government banned American firms from dealing with Huawei, I tried to live without the world’s biggest mobile operating system (OS). The short answer: it’s virtually impossible to live without Google in this smartphone era.

Standard Bank has unveiled a new ecommerce service called SimplyBlu to enable South African business owners to easily sell products or services online.

If you blinked last night you might have missed Apple’s mention of tvOS, the operating system being used to run the Apple TV. The company doesn’t typically place a massive emphasis on the operating system, perhaps because it’s not quite as… sexy as iOS and macOS. But Apple’s looking to change that, thanks to the new Apple TV features announced in March this year. 

In this week’s Light Start we have old video footage, new trailers, a very expensive DJI drone, and a weird addition to the Pokemon line of products.

In South Africa 15.6% of the households are not connected to an electricity supply. This is unlikely to change in the near future with centralised power production because it requires major investments to extend power lines to remote communities. For these communities, having their own decentralised grid solutions holds tremendous economic potential.