The Roost

At Huawei’s latest ‘flagship product launch’ held in Dubai last night, the tech company unveiled a host of new products, including the new folio-style foldable Mate X6, new additions to the mid-range Nova smartphone series and MatePad tablet range, and a new pair of wireless earbuds. We’ll get to those shortly but another announcement caught

Some folks have all the money. Correspondingly, they have no need for gifts. That’s why the luxury gift category was created. If they’ve already got everything, then it’s time to think outside the box and hand over something that makes no sense in a household that occasionally rules out certain meals because they’re “too expensive”.

Astro Bot has done the unthinkable. Team Asobi’s platforming masterpiece snatched victory from the claws of China’s ravenous fanbases, installing itself as the definitive Game of the Year for 2024. But that’s not why you’re here. The Game Awards have since proven itself to be more than just a celebratory pat on the back for all

Dread it, run from it, inflation arrives all the same. MTN South Africa will increase contract prices starting from 01 February 2025. Price increases like this are a fairly regular occurrence. MTN might be one of the first to announce its 2025 changes, but it probably won’t be the last. MTN drives the price The

You forget just how desperate the state of Springbok rugby was a mere 18 months before the 2019 World Cup in Japan. It would end so dramatically and with such triumph, sure, but it began at rock bottom. Losing 57-nil to the All Blacks in 2017 was the nadir of Alistair Coetsee’s ill-fated reign as

Can artificial intelligence (AI) tell whether you’re happy, sad, angry or frustrated? According to technology companies that offer AI-enabled emotion recognition software, the answer to this question is yes. But this claim does not stack up against mounting scientific evidence. What’s more, emotion recognition technology poses a range of legal and societal risks – especially

It’s often difficult to determine what constitutes ‘budget’ technology. Tech is, by its very nature, pricey to purchase unless you’re buying older stuff. Even then, go too far back and suddenly it’s “vintage” and “expensive”. That’s the explanation for why vinyl LPs cost as much as they do. Bloody hipsters, always mucking things up for

Tech company TCL has produced five short films with AI, that it plans to turn into targeted advertising content on its TVs. In the long term, the company plans to produce original movies with the help of generative AI. Should this succeed, TCL may be the first tech company since Netflix to truly disrupt Hollywood.

If you missed Stuff‘s Black Friday sale, which ended a little earlier this week, don’t fret. There’s still an opportunity to get South Africa’s best technology magazine — in its digital form — for less than you would at any other time this year. Okay, fine, Black Friday was an exceptional discount at the time

Today is the day. The day that Geoff Keighley walks onto the big stage in LA, and utters the most beautiful words ever spoken, calculated to get the blood flowing: “Silksong is now available.” That’s not technically true. While this year’s Game Awards are scheduled for Thursday, 12 December, it’s a different case for South Africa.