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Stuff’s Festive Gift Guide 2025 – Rewarding the readers in your life
Ah, the humble reader. That quiet friend who regularly stuffs horrifying words into their brain without anyone being the wiser. Stuff‘s Festive Gift Guide 2025 has several options for you to keep that quiet friend as silent as possible, in the hopes that they never share their eldritch and cursed knowledge with you. And, if
Uber launches airport-based kiosks for summoning a ride even when you’re offline
It’s not just South Africa going all out for festive travellers. International companies like Uber are also hoping to up the convenience factor for people going away on their holidays. The latest from the ride-share all is the introduction of kiosks at (some) airports. It’s little more than a tablet and a card reader, but
The most incredible time of the year to unwrap savings
It’s the season of simple joys: unwrapping moments that matter, and choosing tech that makes every day a little smarter. It’s the most incredible time of the year, where great value meets support that keeps your tech performing long after the ribbon’s off. Experience the Incredible difference when our in-store TechXperts help you choose the
Dragonborn again: Skyrim launches on Nintendo’s Switch 2
Thought you’d seen the last of Skyrim, had you? Until Bethesda gets around to releasing The Elder Scrolls VI, the action RPG that first saw daylight in 2011 will continue to be released. Case in point: Todd Howard’s money printer has just launched on Nintendo’s Switch 2. There’s good news and bad news, depending on
Google (and friends) killed off the internet’s potential in search of money
It took a while for us to get here. Once upon a time, Google was the very best internet search engine on the planet. That wasn’t hard to do in the 1990s, but it managed to retain its position right up until it placed current Chief Technologist Prabhakar Raghavan in charge of ads and commerce
How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption
From automatically generated overviews to chatbots in spreadsheets, so-called artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into our watches, phones, home assistants and other smart devices. AI-in-everything is becoming so ordinary and everyday that it is easy to overlook. But this normalisation is having a dangerous effect on the environment, the planet and our response to
SA Tourism launches Siyanda, a custom-designed AI aimed at North American tourists
Something like this was always inevitable. South African Tourism, in conjunction with a company called GuideGeek, has launched Siyanda, a tourist-specific AI that will “[provide] instant answers to any travel or tourism related questions about the country.” It’s hardly the first upgrade for the upcoming tourist season, but it’s easily the most buzzwordy. GuideGeek, which
MTN enhances network capacity in “tourism hotspots” for the holidays
You might be dragging your family across the country to see the sights during the coming holidays, and MTN will be damned if it lets you go a second without a stable internet connection. The network provider announced today that it had bumped up the connectivity for its customers across “key tourism hotspots” ahead of
Samsung’s SOS+ service finally reaches the company’s latest devices in SA
Right around the time Samsung South Africa debuted the latest Galaxy A Series in April this year, it brought SOS+ with it — a subscription-based 24/7 emergency service that’ll get to you whenever you need help. There was just one problem; it was exclusive to the Galaxy A56, A36, and A26. Now, that’s changing. Save
Sol Shogunate stylishly set to put samurai into space
Some ideas make perfect sense. One of those ideas is, weirdly, putting samurai in a space setting. Sol Shogunate is an excellent (and brand new) example of just this, though we’d also have accepted a game revolving around Frank Herbet’s Ginaz Swordmasters. Still, this one — the creation of a new developer called Chaos Manufacturing










