Gearburn

Need For Speed (2015) review: fast and forgettable

Need for Speed is a franchise that has seen a thousand iterations (or at least it certainly seems like it), and thousands of hours…

Gearburn’s Holiday Gift Guide 2015: the best tech gifts under R150

Christmas shopping is a torrid chore, but it doesn’t have to be, especially if you happen to read Gearburn regularly. Our staff have put…

Fallout 4 review: radioactive fun

As it stands at this very moment, I have put the best part of 61-hours of my life into Fallout 4. During this time,…

Wait Extended review: suspenseful Lovecraftian storytelling

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to play an Early Access version of Wait Extended, an indie horror game designed by German developers…

5 essential productivity apps for your new iPhone 6S

After waiting for a good while, you finally have your hands on a new iPhone 6S. While you probably bought it for its style,…

LG G4 Stylus review: a gentle giant

If there’s one thing LG hasn’t done this year, it’s launch a mid-range device that I would actually buy. They’ve all been decidedly ordinary,…

6 YouTube gaming channels you really should be watching

There are a lot of YouTube channels dedicated to gaming. In fact, there are so many that the Xbox One actually has an achievement…

Windows 10 first impressions: what Gearburn thinks of Microsoft’s new baby

We may be soulless journalists, but that doesn’t mean a software release has no bearing on our lives. As a squad of Windows users…

Windows 10: 5 key numbers to know before Microsoft’s big launch

For all Windows 10 related views, breaking stories and deeper analysis, visit our comprehensive Windows 10 Hub before and after Microsoft’s big launch. If…

10 questions to ask before buying a smartphone

If you are looking to invest in the latest smartphone, there are some things that you might want to consider before jumping to a…

The Grand Tournament: Blizzard readying ‘Hearthstone’ expansion for August arrival

Blizzard recently announced that a big new expansion is coming to its free-to-play online digital collectible card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. It is…

Windows 10, ‘No Man’s Sky’ and ‘Life Is Strange’: the TGIF Video Roundup

Welcome to the TGIF Video Roundup, a weekly series where we explore, highlight and poke fun at some of the videos, trailers and clips…

Hello Pluto: dissecting the tech behind the New Horizons space probe

It has been almost a decade since NASA launched the unmanned New Horizons space probe as the beginning of their New Frontiers project (a…

Samsung Gear Circle review: a runner’s delight, a fashionista’s fright

If you’ve ever connected earphones to your office laptop or desktop, you probably know all to well the resultant carnage when you accidentally get…

Hitting the fairway: golf readies itself for the wearable tech revolution

Technology, which is constantly changing, also changes each industry it touches. And it’s currently got its finger on the world of sports, altering the…

Micromax YU Yuphoria review: a future Android One killer

The YU Yuphoria is the second smartphone offering from Micromax‘s new sub-brand. It’s destined to compete with the likes of the Xiaomi Redmi 2,…

No fruit allowed: 8 powerful and versatile alternatives to the MacBook

Apple MacBooks are great machines. Arguably, they are singlehandedly reviving the laptop genre after the early decade’s tablet onslaught. They’re light, built with usability…

Nintendo’s next big decision: 4 potential successors to Satoru Iwata’s throne

It’s been 13 long years since Nintendo was without a president. In 2002, after a torrid ten-year spell of failed gaming consoles and ideas,…

Innerexile Hydra for iPhone 6 review: phone protection made sexy

There’s an old photograph of my parents sitting beneath a tree, as my mother’s looking away (probably wishing the damn photo could be taken already)…

Huawei G7 review: so much phone, so few faults

Huawei is charging into the South African smartphone market in a big way. According to Reuters, last year the company sold a million units…

Braven 705 wireless speaker review: a practical portable Beats beater

Portability is about as annoying a buzzword as synergy, or smartwatches for that matter. But unlike the latter two, portability has been a fundamental…

The mid-year gaming awards: Wiehahn’s best games of 2015 so far

Time is a strange and deceptive thing. It seems like it was only yesterday I was celebrating our transition into the new year, spurting…

Virtual calamities: 5 of the worst virtual reality devices ever made

2015 has been the year of virtual reality. The Oculus Rift, Sony Project Morpheus, Google Cardboard and the HTC Vive – these are all…

Huawei’s All-Optical smart-home showcase unleashes a new era of home connectivity in Africa

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

Applications for the 2025 Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship are open

Africa’s AI Revolution: Reclaiming the Digital Narrative

South Africa’s Deskless Workers: A Workforce Under Strain

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

What is Northvolt worth for German car companies?

Jaguar rebranding creative is crazy – good?

German luxury cars require a rethink for China