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Is what you’re hearing really real? Deepfake videos have gotten a lot of attention (especially after it happened to Taylor Swift) but more troubling are deepfake audio recordings, Sergey Shykevich, threat intelligence group manager at Check Point Software Technologies, tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. Read more on Stuff.

One of the most important new technologies in our renewable energy future is one you've probably never heard of. Called wheeling, it is the way that electricity is accounted for when you move it across the grid and you’re probably already using it, Open Access Energy founder Gerjo Hoffman tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. Read more on Stuff.

Most of South Africa's youth don’t watch a TV set. Why should they? They have a mobile entertainment console in their hands that can access the new form of television: streaming. Jason Probert, general manager for digital services for MTN South Africa, tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak how he is making it easier and more cost-effective. Read more on Stuff.

Before he sold his startup to Workday, MIT-trained Sayan Chakraborty worked at NASA’s famed

For many millions, a mobile phone is their only computer and their only screen. Jason Lobel, MTN South Africa’s head of video, wants to get streaming services to those people, he tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. Read more on Stuff.

PayShap is the biggest thing to happen in banking in South Africa, if it is done right, says TymeBank’s co-founder and group CEO Coen Jonker. The new rapid payment method is

Instead of buying expensive textbooks, which learners are stuck with, what if you could “rent” them? Calling it a "Spotify for textbooks," this is the idea behind MTN’s new educational offering, MTN South Africa’s general manager of digital services Jason Probert tells says Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. Joining them is Thabiet Allie, the head of new business development and who is driving the operator’s online learning. Read more on Stuff.

Until recently if you wanted to go off grid, you were in for an expensive system. But a new monthly rental option has emerged allowing frustrated South Africans to escape blackouts. MetroWatt CEO David Neale dives into this trend with editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak in the fourth episode of Stuff’s going off-grid podcast series. Read more on Stuff.

Gaming is still a fundamental way us humans interact and hasn't always been on a high-tech console, MTN’s gaming geeks tell Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. Veteran executive Jason Probert is general manager of digital services for MTN South Africa, while Bradly Kirby is senior specialist of eSports and gaming– and gamers themselves. Apart from this philosophical reminder, gaming is how we have fun, blow off steam and socialise. Some of us do it on a padel court, others over a PlayStation. Read more on Stuff.

“Going solar” is the catch phrase of the year. Again. But how do you tell the shysters from the bone fide solar installers? And how do you get finance for an off-grid system? Also, without having to become an expert yourself, what exactly do you need? This is the what Hohm Energy does, providing a marketplace for finding providers and financiers, its head of business intelligence Matthew Cruise tells editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak in the third episode of Stuff’s going off-grid podcast series. Read more on Stuff.