VISION PRO – APPLE’S VISIONARY OFFERING

In June 2023, Apple finally unveiled its long-awaited augmented reality headset, the Vision Pro – and it’s safe to say that it came with more than a few surprises including its price tag of a cool $3,500. It is one of their biggest hardware launches in the last decade and marks a significant step forward for the tech company into a space that has been occupied by the likes of Google, Meta, Lenovo, Oculus, Merge, Microsoft, Epson and Raptor to name a few. There are a variety of AR and VR headsets on the market that range in price and user experience. Augmented reality as the name suggests looks to “augment the […]

ANTI-AGING OR AGING BACKWARDS

Looking at Hollywood alone, it’s clear that there is a rhetoric of anti-aging that is embodied largely but not exclusively, by its celebrity populus. The desire to look forever young is fulfilled (at least to some extent) by many plastic surgeon and aesthetician applied techniques and remedies of varying degrees and dramatic results. However, it’s one thing to look younger on the outside, but what about the inside – does it actually matter if the exterior doesn’t match the interior? Ultimately yes it does, and the health of your body is dependent on how you treat the inside i.e., the more you nourish your body by eating healthily, drinking enough water, and getting sufficient […]

SNAP COLLAB – FILTERED BRAND INFLUENCING

SnapChat is the subsidiary of parent company Snap and boasts over 750 million monthly users on it’s app, with the vast majority of them opening the App almost “40 times a day.” From an African standpoint, Southern Africa is third in terms of the highest number of users at approximately 5.7 million active users, which is relatively low in comparison to Northern Africa with 29.2 million users and followed by Western Africa at almost 11 million users, with Eastern Africa sitting on the bottom end of the SnapChat usership scale. Like all other social media apps and networks, SnapChat has also made it even easier for its content creators to monetize what […]

A CONTROVERSIAL CORONATION FOR ENGLAND’S KING CHARLES THE THIRD

On the 6^th of May 2023 Price Charles was coronated and officially became King Charles III, the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. As he was the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II, post his mother’s passing in September last year, the throne then passed onto the new King, Charles. His mother was Britain’s longest reigning monarch, while her son is the longest-serving-monarch in waiting as he is 73 years old at the time of his ascension to the throne. While historical, King Charles’ coronation has not been without controversy. In the past few years, the British public’s love and support of the monarchy […]

ALCARELLE VERSUS ALCOHOL – COULD BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING HUNGOVER OR NOT

What a dream it would be to wake up after a relatively big night out without the dreaded headache, brain fog, nausea, anxiety, fatigue, thirst, muscle aches or any of the other tell-tale hangover symptoms. Although not everyone suffers from hangovers when drinking, that may just be due to what some people term their alcohol-tolerance, but is really just how their body metabolizes the alcohol and the subsequent residual symptoms. Any alcoholic drink is mainly comprised of ethyl alcohol, otherwise known as ethanol, however there are other core compounds that form the makeup of alcohol which are called congeners. Congeners are effectively a by-product of […]

THE POPE IN THE PUFFER

Recently images of the Pope in a puffer caused quite a stir globally, with millions convinced that Pope Francis had stepped out wearing a notably fashionable and unorthodox snow-white full-length Balenciaga puffer jacket. Understandably, the image went viral with many believing that the Pope would actually stray so far from the traditional religious clothing norms by sporting such a garment, however those who weren’t fooled by the image, were confused and started questioning how on earth such a realistic image came to be. According to the New York Post, “Godless technology has made a mockery of papal regalia – and gullible social media users.”

The image which now has over 20.3 million views on […]

COVID AND ITS ORIGIN STORY

We are now more than three years on from the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, that was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The origin story of the virus remains a mystery to this day and one of the most hotly contested origin stories outside of any Marvel movie.  The science largely backs the zoonotic virus theory in that Covid-19 was transmitted from animals to humans. Covid-19 is not the first zoonotic virus that we have ever experienced by any means. According to the CDC, “Six out of every 10 infectious diseases in people are zoonotic, which makes it crucial that the nation strengthen its capabilities to prevent and respond to […]

SOUTH AFRICA’S NEW MINISTER OF MISERY ELECTRICITY

It is a President’s prerogative to choose his cabinet and then reshuffle it, especially when it is filled with detractors rather than supporters. It would be a strong move for our President to strategically surround himself with people who are looking to sustain his presidential term, versus those who seek to end it prematurely through impeachment proceedings. Given the current power crisis both from an electrical ad political perspective – it is no wonder President Cyril Ramaphosa has had to think outside the box and at implementing something entirely new through the addition of yet another minister to his already ‘bloated’ cabinet, at least according to local opposition parties, who have […]

TIKTOK’S TIME LIMIT

TikTok is one of the most addictive social sites around with users consuming hours of short-form video content on a daily basis. TikTok founds itself on the premise that its users don’t just scroll through its content while doing other everyday tasks – they become immersed in the different TikTok communities and content lead algorithms. Unlike other social sites, TikTok doesn’t lend itself to simultaneous screen time meaning that most people won’t watch something on Netflix and engage with TikTok content, unlike social networks such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. It’s no wonder that the app and its users need to consider the amount of time dedicated to consuming its content on a daily, especially […]

CENSORSHIP VERSUS SENSITIVITY IN THE LITERARY WORLD

Censorship versus ‘sensitivity’ is an on-going intergenerational issue, in the media, online and generally – globally. Older generation’s view the upcoming generations such as millennials and Gen Z as sensitive and soft whereas those who fall within those generations consider themselves well informed, emotionally attuned and ‘woke’. Either way, neither seems to be able to agree on what is purely censorship versus sensitivity when it comes to ideologies and content produced at a different time to speak to a different era. From a dictionary standpoint, censorship can be defined as the “suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat […]