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Join Brett and Marce in audio as they discuss the week's tech headlines -- South African and global. The topics include: The recent major focus on NFTs, the blockchain, the metaverse, and how it all affects consumers. Should you care?

Join Brett and Marce in audio as they discuss the week's tech headlines -- South African and global. The topics include: - This year in tech 2021 version - The best and worst devices this year - What to expect in tech 2022

Join Brett and Marce in audio as they discuss the week's tech headlines -- South African and global. The topics include: Budget- to mid-range phones in South Africa. What spec to expect, and what data they actually collect. - Huawei Nova 9 - Poco X3 Pro - Honor 50 - Vivo Y33s

Join Brett and Marce in audio as they discuss the week's tech headlines -- South African and global. The topics include: - Black Friday in South Africa: The survival guide - Asus ZenBook OLED review - MSI Summit E16 Flip review

Join Brett and Marce in audio as they discuss the week's tech headlines -- South African and global. The topics include: - Boston Dynamics' Spot in South Africa and how robots will change the way we work. - Hades review - TCL P615 4K 55in first look

Join Brett and Marce in audio as they discuss the week's tech headlines -- South African and global. The topics include: - How Eskom's failing South Africans - Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic review - Crosscall Core X4 review

Join Brett and Marce in audio as they discuss the week's tech headlines -- South African and global. The topics include: - Facebook, ahem... Meta and its Metaverse - Sonos Beam Gen 2 review - Jabra Elite 3 review - Ride-hailing apps in South Africa

Join Brett and Marce in audio as they discuss the week's tech headlines -- South African and global. The topics include: - Blue Origin space station, Orbital Reef and how it's coming along. - Load shedding Stage 4 and how to survive it with our help. - Netflix price increase -- the first one in South Africa. Here's how it compares to other services. - Xiaomi launches 11T Pro in South Africa for R14,000. - Trump’s social media platform -- a deep dive into TRUTH Social and what it means for the social media landscape. - Featured devices: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 and the Fitbit Charge 5. 

Fintech app Shyft won a prestigious innovation award from global banking organisation Efma in Barcelona in 2016 before it even launched. The innovative forex app – which was the first to offer virtual credit cards in South Africa, about five years before they became mainstream – has grown significantly, adding investment.  Having won a stream of awards – including a Stuff App Award – its head Arno von Helden tells Stuff Studio's editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak how it is planning to Shyft digital banking. Read more on Stuff Studios.

Akshay Chopra, Visa's head of Innovation & Design for Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA), talks to Stuff Studios editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak about the innovative ways Visa is working on financial inclusion and transacting. Read more on Stuff

Aldo Laubscher, Visa South Africa country manager, tells Stuff Studios editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak that despite Covid and its effects, the last two years have accelerated digitisation and digital ways of paying. Visa found that 51% of over-50s in the country used ecommerce for the first time. Visa, which has 3,3bn card credentials and processes 65,000 to 70,0000 transactions per second, is looking at “credentials” instead of cards. Or, as Laubscher calls it, it is “plastic with a digital feel”. Read more on Stuff Studios.

Andre de Ruyter is the most important businessman in South Africa today. If the Eskom CEO can’t deal with its debt, its notorious inefficiency and the load-shedding problems, the whole country will suffer. And an explosion in Medupi this week. Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak is more interested in how De Ruyter plans to turn Eskom into a modern power utility. And yes, solar is in the mix.

Stuff's editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak is joined by Samsung South Africa's Justin Hume following the launch of the South Korean brand's newly established Z-range.  On 11 August 2021, Samsung revealed the latest in its smartphone lineup, and this time it's all about unfolding greatness. On the larger side, the Galaxy Fold3 5G features speedy 120Hz displays (inside and out) as well as an improved UI aimed at bringing a brilliant experience all-round. Then there's the Galaxy Flip3 5G -- a handset developed with the creator in mind.  How will South Africans adapt to the 'new-new' mobile format? #sponsored

Stuff's publisher Toby Shapshak talks to Stephen Van Coller CEO of EOH.  News broke that EOH has sued its former co-founder and several senior execs for a combined R6.4B. They talk about EOH holding former execs accountable to avoid being blacklisted, try to return credibility and restore public trust.

Join Stuff Magazine's Toby Shapshak, South Africa's voice on technology, as he continues his series of how the world of work is evolving. Toby unpacks exactly how technology has changed the way we work and how to best prepare your kids to adapt to this rapidly changing global landscape in association with Vox Telecoms and CURRO.  For more from Stuff Magazine, head on over to our website where you can find the latest and hottest tech news. Or you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook!

Join Stuff Magazine's Toby Shapshak, South Africa's voice on technology, as he begins his series of how the world of work is evolving. Toby unpacks exactly how technology has changed the way we work and how to best prepare your kids to adapt to this rapidly changing global landscape. For more from Stuff Magazine, head on over to our website where you can find the latest and hottest tech news. Or you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook!

Toby Shapshak is a man who knows the value of online security and privacy. So who better to discuss these topics with than Kevin Mitchell, CIO of FNB who just so happens to specialise in online security. Learn more about how to keep yourself safe online using the methods at your disposal. If you're looking to keep yourself a little safer on this crazy thing called the internet, then this is what you need to listen to!

We try a new format and allow Toby to talk as much as he wants in this episode of Stuffed. Join us as we unpack the mystifying SARS web browser that's been built just to run flash, Google threatening to leave Australia and what's happening with that ANC district councilor that's been spreading COVID-19/5G conspiracy theories. 

In this week's episode, we delve into WhatsApp's controversial privacy policy change and discuss alternate messaging apps that don't send your data off to Facebook.

Stuff's editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak and writer Brad Lang sit down to discuss this week's headlining tech news. Find out how Facebook's lawsuit will affect the world, how SpaceX is absolutely dominating our skies and what tripods we love.