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There’s a new hybrid in town. Honda has launched the new CR-V e:HEV in South Africa, and it’s actually cheaper than the automaker’s turbocharged petrol model. It still fetches a bonkers price — R950,000 — but with the reward being Honda’s self-charging hybrid technology underneath the luxury shell, it may be worth a look. That

When Volkano sent us a box of its gaming gear and we saw their retail prices, we were sceptical. The Eclipse X1, normally available for R800 but usually for up to R200 less than that, put in an impressive enough performance that we feel bad about our initial judgement. Yes, they’re very budget gaming headphones.

It’s been a busy 24 hours for Apple. On top of announcing the new Apple TV 4K and a bunch of LG-built smart home products, it wanted a slice of the smart home pie all to itself. Enter the Apple HomeView, a new take on the smart home hub that just about every tech company

Creating technology for children requires a… different… approach. Even so, myFirst’s new CareSip smart water bottle could be taking it all a bit too seriously. The company recently announced the new children’s tech as part of a larger lineup including a camera and a printer your kids can talk to. Yes, really. But it’s that

Right on schedule, Apple has unveiled a host of new smart home products. Top of the list is the Apple TV 4K, a much-needed refresh of the outdated 2022 model. It has a new remote and the A19 chip that powers the last-gen base iPhone 17 and 17e. All these upgrades are in the name

Imagine a company that sells you equipment, invests money in your business, and then rents back what you build with it. It’s your supplier, your investor and your customer all at once. That’s known as circular financing. Many artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Nvidia, have adopted a version of this opaque

Epic Games was, unsurprisingly, one of the first to board the AI hype train, but even we didn’t think it’d stray quite this far from the righteous path. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier recently got a look at the goings-on inside Epic and paints an ugly picture. Development has reportedly been delayed internally on an untitled Disney

Oppo is rumoured to have a wider smartphone coming to market. Called the Reno X (according to those rumours), the phone will mimic design changes seen in both Samsung’s and Huawei’s phones. That means less height and more width to play with. A fresh leak from an X account claims to have the screen specs,

Many South African motorists are still reeling from the R3/l+ petrol and diesel price hikes inflicted upon them this October. The potential for some more government relief does ease the sting a bit, but not by much. Early data from the Central Energy Fund (CEF) suggests that November will be yet another rough month for

It’s annoying to forget where you’ve put your smartphone. PhoneBot could fix that problem. It’s not what the little humanoid(ish) robot’s creators at UCLA intended, but it’s the first thing we thought of when we saw the little guy. Researchers at the American university have built a humanoid robot that uses an old smartphone as