Author: Brett Venter

It’s everyone’s worst nightmare (apparently). Not massive illnesses and clogged hospitals. Not a lack of essential foods. Nope, apparently in the mini-apocalypse, we’re mostly concerned with not being able to wipe our bottoms with the fluffy stuff. But do you really need 231 rolls of toilet paper at home? As usual, the internet provides us with all the information we crave. Dare you find out how long your bottom will stay clean? DON’T. PANIC. Website homemuchtoiletpaper.com has the answers you should seek before you head out and do any more panic buying. Or your first round of panic buying. Or…

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The ladies and gents who make up Stuff spend loads of time using headphones. We all love to talk and sometimes, in order to get anything done, the noise has to be blocked out. Long story short, it takes quite a bit to impress us on the headphone front. We’ve used plenty of ’em and many come short. Samsung’s Galaxy Buds+, however, are impressive from the outset. Slick as ever And not just because they’re pretty — although the Galaxy Buds+ are a rather attractive pair. The smooth capsule-shaped black charging case gives the Buds an almost medical feel –…

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The world is changing, whether we like it or not. Social events around the world are being postponed or cancelled and the shape of ‘normal’ is altering. But people around the world are not letting that get them down. Take Spanish soccer teams Real Betis and Sevilla, who were due to play a La Liga match against each other this past weekend at the Servilla derby. Coronavirus, obviously, put paid to that idea. Choose your champion(‘s league) https://twitter.com/BorjaIglesias9/status/1239280764988133381 Instead, the teams decided to settle matters another way — a player vs. player match on FIFA 20, using the digital versions…

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Do you have something to hide? In that case, WhatsApp’s planning on helping you get it done. The services is working on a feature that lets users set messages to self-destruct after a set period. And yes, we’re aware that this isn’t the first time. Legitimate uses Last year, WhatsApp was testing the ability to auto-delete messages in group chats. The feature would allow for messages to be set to set themselves aflame after a user-determined period. Guess what the new features for private chats would do? If you guess, ‘let you set messages to set themselves aflame after a…

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Social media feels so much like a space that is owned by its users that it’s easy to forget that there are companies behind those spaces. TikTok, the popular social media app hailing from China, has just come along with a rather hectic reminder. TikTok, according to a report from The Intercept, gave its moderators instructions to limit the reach of media it deemed undesirable — such as if users were unattractive (specifically, had “unattractive facial looks”), or the background of video was unappealing. Examples of this? If the setting was “…shabby and dilapidated” or included “…slums, rural fields [or]…

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