Jaguar Land Rover and BMW have announced they’re going to work together developing next-gen electric drive units (EDUs).

Move over Optimus Prime, here come… Amazon Prime? Yeah, that’s not a typo, though Amazon’s newest little transformer doesn’t do anything quite as spectacular as morphing from a truck into a robot and kicking Megatron in the er… bolts.

Apple says it’s replacing iTunes with three dedicated entertainment applications as part of its new Mac operating system, Catalina, for desktop and laptop computers.

Graphics is about the only area where phones lag behind computers but a new partnership between Samsung and AMD could put paid to that problem. The short version? AMD’s Radeon graphics tech is coming to Samsung’s smartphones in the near future. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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

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.

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.