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Man Utd's 4-0 Win Over Sabah Was About Sesko, Not the Scoreline

Man Utd’s 4-0 Win Over Sabah Was About Sesko, Not the Scoreline

September 12, 2026
Chelsea Deserved More Against Arsenal, and That's Exactly the Problem

Chelsea Deserved More Against Arsenal, and That’s Exactly the Problem

September 8, 2026
City Paid £125m for Enzo Fernández Because Chelsea Forgot How Deadlines Work

City Paid £125m for Enzo Fernández Because Chelsea Forgot How Deadlines Work

September 3, 2026
Messi Wrote His Argentina Goodbye in July and Waited Six Weeks to Post It

Messi Wrote His Argentina Goodbye in July and Waited Six Weeks to Post It

September 1, 2026
Cherki and Haaland Just Made the Post-Pep Era Feel Very Real

Cherki and Haaland Just Made the Post-Pep Era Feel Very Real

August 29, 2026
Alonso's Chelsea Debut Delivers a 3-2 Classic Built on Flawed Foundations

Alonso’s Chelsea Debut Delivers a 3-2 Classic Built on Flawed Foundations

August 26, 2026
Carlos Espí's Late Winner Was Control Disguised as Drama

Carlos Espí’s Late Winner Was Control Disguised as Drama

August 24, 2026
How Manchester United Paid £35m Less for Carlos Baleba by Simply Walking Away

How Manchester United Paid £35m Less for Carlos Baleba by Simply Walking Away

August 22, 2026
Ronaldo's 2026 Exit Plan Is Less About Goals, More About Peace

Ronaldo’s 2026 Exit Plan Is Less About Goals, More About Peace

August 20, 2026
FIFA Just Sacked Its COO for Criticizing Infantino's World Cup Cash Grab

FIFA Just Sacked Its COO for Criticizing Infantino’s World Cup Cash Grab

August 18, 2026
PSG Won the Super Cup but Aston Villa Stole the Future

PSG Won the Super Cup but Aston Villa Stole the Future

August 14, 2026
Glowmads Are Real, but the Glow Might Not Survive the Flight
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Glowmads Are Real, but the Glow Might Not Survive the Flight

Travel used to be something you recovered from. Now a growing slice of Gen Z books the recovery first and the destination second. Skyscanner's 2026 trends report put a name…
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Posted by Martha Ottonan September 10, 2026
Netflix SA's 2026 Slate Proves The Polygamist Changed Everything
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Netflix SA’s 2026 Slate Proves The Polygamist Changed Everything

Netflix South Africa turned ten this month, and the anniversary event in Johannesburg came loaded with announcements. Love Is Blind: South Africa. Blood Legacy Season 2 on 25 September. A…
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Posted by Kevin Orwa September 12, 2026
Sweat-Jetting Is the Travel Trend Nobody Asked For and Everyone Is Booking Anyway
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Sweat-Jetting Is the Travel Trend Nobody Asked For and Everyone Is Booking Anyway

Sweat-jetting, the art of booking a holiday built entirely around exercise, is officially a thing. Vogue gave it a name this week, Tripadvisor's data has been pointing at it since…
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Posted by Martha Ottonan September 6, 2026
Dolly Parton's First Posthumous Song Is Here and It Sounds Exactly Like Her
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Dolly Parton’s First Posthumous Song Is Here and It Sounds Exactly Like Her

Two weeks after Dolly Parton died at 80, we got new music from her. Not a vault-clearing demo, not a label scraping the barrel. "Bound to Ride," a Stanley Brothers…
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Posted by Martha Ottonan September 12, 2026
Obren's MAFS Mzansi Exit Was a Long Time Coming
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Obren’s MAFS Mzansi Exit Was a Long Time Coming

Obren Motswane just became the first cast member in Married at First Sight Mzansi history to walk out mid-season, and the experts let him go without a fight. The official…
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Posted by Kevin Orwa September 9, 2026
Blue Wellness Holidays Are Booming, and Most of Them Miss the Point
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Blue Wellness Holidays Are Booming, and Most of Them Miss the Point

Wellness tourism passed the trillion-dollar mark this year, and the industry has picked its next mascot: water. Not the tiled-pool kind. We're talking seas, rivers, lakes, hot springs, and slow…
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Posted by Martha Ottonan September 2, 2026
Rockstar Put a Mole in a Union Discord. Now It’s on Trial in Glasgow
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Rockstar Put a Mole in a Union Discord. Now It’s on Trial in Glasgow

The most revealing GTA 6 document of 2026 isn't a trailer. It's a stack of tribunal filings at the Glasgow Tribunals Centre. On September 10, the final hearing opened between…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 12, 2026
iPhone Duo: The Crease Is Fine, the Price and Storage Aren’t
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iPhone Duo: The Crease Is Fine, the Price and Storage Aren’t

Apple called the iPhone Duo's inner display "wonderfully flat and smooth" at Wednesday's Surprise and Shine event. After three days of picking apart every hands-on frame I could find, I…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 12, 2026
South Africa gets the iPhone Duo in October, and almost nobody should buy it
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South Africa gets the iPhone Duo in October, and almost nobody should buy it

Apple's iPhone Duo is real, it folds down the middle, and it's officially coming to South Africa on 23 October. Pre-orders open 16 October at 4pm through Apple's South African…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 12, 2026
The UMG-ElevenLabs Deal Shows Labels Would Rather License AI Than Fight It
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The UMG-ElevenLabs Deal Shows Labels Would Rather License AI Than Fight It

Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announced a multi-year agreement on Wednesday to build a licensed AI music creation platform, one that lets fans remix, mash up, and reinterpret tracks from…
Posted by Sibusiso Tebogo September 12, 2026
Man Utd’s 4-0 Win Over Sabah Was About Sesko, Not the Scoreline
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Man Utd’s 4-0 Win Over Sabah Was About Sesko, Not the Scoreline

United's first Champions League match since the December 2023 group-stage exit ended 4-0 against Sabah FK, and the scoreline was somehow the least interesting part of the night. Sabah, a…
Posted by Sibusiso Tebogo September 12, 2026
Netflix SA’s 2026 Slate Proves The Polygamist Changed Everything
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Netflix SA’s 2026 Slate Proves The Polygamist Changed Everything

Netflix South Africa turned ten this month, and the anniversary event in Johannesburg came loaded with announcements. Love Is Blind: South Africa. Blood Legacy Season 2 on 25 September. A…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 12, 2026
The AI Extinction Warning Isn’t Hype, It’s a Confession
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The AI Extinction Warning Isn’t Hype, It’s a Confession

On Wednesday, a pretraining researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and told the internet that the two most powerful AI labs on earth are "gambling with our lives." Resignations…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 12, 2026
Dolly Parton’s First Posthumous Song Is Here and It Sounds Exactly Like Her
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Dolly Parton’s First Posthumous Song Is Here and It Sounds Exactly Like Her

Two weeks after Dolly Parton died at 80, we got new music from her. Not a vault-clearing demo, not a label scraping the barrel. "Bound to Ride," a Stanley Brothers…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 12, 2026
The People Building AI Say It Could Kill Us All, Then Clock Back In
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The People Building AI Say It Could Kill Us All, Then Clock Back In

Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 9, a few months after joining its pretraining team following roughly three years at OpenAI. In his exit thread he accused both employers…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 12, 2026
Sony Cancelled Physint in June and Hoped Nobody Would Notice
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Sony Cancelled Physint in June and Hoped Nobody Would Notice

The strangest part of Physint landing at Xbox isn't that it happened. It's when. Hideo Kojima says PlayStation Studios handed Kojima Productions an unexpected cancellation notice in mid-June. Sony then…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 11, 2026
The iPhone Duo Nails the Fold and Fumbles the Fit
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The iPhone Duo Nails the Fold and Fumbles the Fit

Apple's first foldable is finally here, and it arrived the way Apple does everything now: polished, expensive, and wider than you're expecting. The iPhone Duo went official on Wednesday at…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 11, 2026
Anthropic’s Alignment Lead Admitted There’s No Plan for Superintelligence
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Anthropic’s Alignment Lead Admitted There’s No Plan for Superintelligence

Jacob Coxon lasted about two months at Anthropic. He joined the lab in July, drawn by the safety reputation that separates it from OpenAI in the public mind, and this…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 10, 2026
Glowmads Are Real, but the Glow Might Not Survive the Flight
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Glowmads Are Real, but the Glow Might Not Survive the Flight

Travel used to be something you recovered from. Now a growing slice of Gen Z books the recovery first and the destination second. Skyscanner's 2026 trends report put a name…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 10, 2026
Jelly Star’s Android 16 Update Is a Quiet Win for Small Phones in SA
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Jelly Star’s Android 16 Update Is a Quiet Win for Small Phones in SA

A phone with a 3-inch screen and a see-through plastic body is now one of the cheapest devices in the country running Android 16. Unihertz started pushing the OTA to…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 10, 2026
Metroid Ravenous and Kirby’s Open World Both Run on Hunger
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Metroid Ravenous and Kirby’s Open World Both Run on Hunger

Nintendo's September Direct ran about 45 minutes and mostly played like a status update. Then the last ten minutes happened. Metroid Ravenous and Kirby and the World Beyond closed the…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 10, 2026
Samsung Roasted the iPhone Duo While Quietly Supplying Its Screens
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Samsung Roasted the iPhone Duo While Quietly Supplying Its Screens

Samsung's social team spent yesterday's Apple event in full attack mode, and the "reheating our leftovers" post is already the funniest thing either company has said all year. It's also…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 10, 2026
Obren’s MAFS Mzansi Exit Was a Long Time Coming
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Obren’s MAFS Mzansi Exit Was a Long Time Coming

Obren Motswane just became the first cast member in Married at First Sight Mzansi history to walk out mid-season, and the experts let him go without a fight. The official…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 9, 2026
Jimmy Kimmel’s 2027 Exit Talk Says More About Disney Than About Kimmel
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Jimmy Kimmel’s 2027 Exit Talk Says More About Disney Than About Kimmel

Word broke this week that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will wrap in May 2027 when his contract expires, after 24 years on ABC. ABC denied it within hours, calling the report…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 9, 2026
Meta’s Muse Is a Landmark AI Agent, and the Trust Math Doesn’t Work
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Meta’s Muse Is a Landmark AI Agent, and the Trust Math Doesn’t Work

Meta launched Muse yesterday, and for once the marketing language is roughly accurate. This is not a chatbot with better manners. Muse is a proactive agent that sends email, books…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 9, 2026
Samsung’s Fold8 Lands in South Africa, and the Carrier Deal Matters More Than the Specs
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Samsung’s Fold8 Lands in South Africa, and the Carrier Deal Matters More Than the Specs

Samsung's most expensive phones have landed in South Africa, and the price tags arrived first. The Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra starts at R50,999 and climbs to R60,999 for the 1TB…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 9, 2026
Ocarina of Time Remake Footage Proves Nintendo Chose Safety Over Ambition
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Ocarina of Time Remake Footage Proves Nintendo Chose Safety Over Ambition

After months of leaks promising something bold, the Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct gave us twenty minutes of Ocarina of Time remake gameplay and confirmed the one thing leakers were wrong…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 9, 2026
Huawei’s Mate XT 2 Nails the Tri-Fold, Then Paywalls Its Best Screen
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Huawei’s Mate XT 2 Nails the Tri-Fold, Then Paywalls Its Best Screen

Huawei launched the Mate XT 2 in China on September 7 with an inward-folding hinge, a new Kirin 9050 Pro, and a starting price of CNY 19,999, roughly $2,980. Pre-orders…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 9, 2026
Bad Bunny’s Seven-Emmy Sweep Is a Win for Craft, Not Just Culture
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Bad Bunny’s Seven-Emmy Sweep Is a Win for Craft, Not Just Culture

Seven nominations, seven wins. When the Television Academy opened the Creative Arts Emmys at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles this weekend, the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show…
Posted by Sibusiso Tebogo September 8, 2026
Chelsea Deserved More Against Arsenal, and That’s Exactly the Problem
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Chelsea Deserved More Against Arsenal, and That’s Exactly the Problem

Morgan Rogers needed 77 seconds to silence the Emirates on Sunday. His volley came off a Reece James free-kick clearance and briefly made Xabi Alonso's Chelsea look like the real…
Posted by Sibusiso Tebogo September 8, 2026
HONOR Pad 20 and MagicBook X14 Arrive in SA Built for Backpacks, Not Headlines
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HONOR Pad 20 and MagicBook X14 Arrive in SA Built for Backpacks, Not Headlines

The Magic V6 foldable got all the applause when HONOR took over Melrose Arch in Johannesburg in late August, and the surprise Robot Phone reveal stole most of the headlines.…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 8, 2026
Onimusha Didn’t Sell a Million Copies on Nostalgia Alone
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Onimusha Didn’t Sell a Million Copies on Nostalgia Alone

Twenty years is long enough for a franchise to die properly. Onimusha got a quiet funeral, a couple of remasters as flowers at the service, then nothing. On Friday it…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 8, 2026
The Galaxy Z Fold 8’s First Discount Exposes Samsung’s Awkward Pricing Problem
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The Galaxy Z Fold 8’s First Discount Exposes Samsung’s Awkward Pricing Problem

Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold 8 in early August and it's already on sale. Since yesterday, Amazon and Best Buy have been taking $250 off every variant, no trade-in,…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 8, 2026
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The Wheelchair Is the Best Idea in Leon Schuster’s Netflix Deal

Leon Schuster is 75 years old, his back has been through at least four surgeries, and he just signed a film deal with Netflix. He pitched the idea to the…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 7, 2026
The Emmys Taped Their Best Awards Weekend and Buried It on FXX
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The Emmys Taped Their Best Awards Weekend and Buried It on FXX

The Television Academy spent this summer working to make its own awards smaller. It rebranded the Creative Arts Emmys as Nights 1 and 2 of the 78th Emmy Awards, moved…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 7, 2026
OpenAI’s Agents Didn’t Hack Their Sandbox. They Found a Wiki Nobody Watched.
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OpenAI’s Agents Didn’t Hack Their Sandbox. They Found a Wiki Nobody Watched.

Somewhere in Germany, a 25-year-old wiki spent eight weeks this spring as the private message board of a swarm of AI agents. Roughly 15,000 edits from systems that were supposed…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 7, 2026
The Redmi 17 is a load-shedding phone dressed up as an entertainment phone
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The Redmi 17 is a load-shedding phone dressed up as an entertainment phone

The Redmi 17 goes on sale in South Africa today at R6,499, and the pitch around it is pure entertainment. A 6.9-inch screen, loud stereo speakers, a phone built for…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 7, 2026
A Million Copies in Three Days: Dawnwalker Didn’t Need a Perfect Launch
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A Million Copies in Three Days: Dawnwalker Didn’t Need a Perfect Launch

We're a site that normally spends its week covering local celebrity drama and the occasional Hollywood Walk of Fame star, so a Polish vampire RPG topping a million copies was…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 7, 2026
Apple’s $2,300 iPhone Ultra Will Skip Face ID and Still Sell Out
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Apple’s $2,300 iPhone Ultra Will Skip Face ID and Still Sell Out

The iPhone Ultra price leaks arrived this week and the internet did what it always does: converted currencies badly and panicked. I've spent the last two days pulling apart the…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 6, 2026

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