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Tesla to Miss Q2 Deliveries by Huge Margin, Shares Tumble Again
JPMorgan believes Tesla will deliver far fewer cars than expected during the second quarter. The investment bank predicts Tesla will only ship around 360,000 vehicles. Most experts thought Tesla would deliver 392,000 cars during this period. JPMorgan had earlier guessed Tesla would hit 395,000 deliveries. The bank used public data and seasonal patterns to make their new prediction. European car sales numbers show Tesla struggling badly across multiple countries. Denmark saw Tesla registrations crash down 61.6 percent compared to last year. Sweden performed even worse with registrations falling 64.4 percent. Tesla stock prices dropped 5.6 percent after investors learned about these terrible European numbers. The disappointing sales...
Apple's New Cheap MacBook Packs A18 Pro—M Series Fans Panic
Apple plans to shake up its laptop lineup with a surprising new MacBook model. The tech giant wants to use an A18 Pro processor instead of its usual M-series chips. This move marks the first time Apple will put a phone processor inside a Mac computer. Backend code reveals the mystery machine carries the identifier Mac17,1. Industry experts believe this strategy will help Apple reach budget-conscious buyers. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo previously shared details about this affordable MacBook project. The 13-inch laptop should arrive with four color options. Apple will offer the device in silver, blue, pink, and yellow finishes. The A18 Pro chip brings a 6-core processor and 5-core graphics unit to the table. Performance will lag behind current...
Red Dead Online Goes Undead with Triple XP Zombie Spree
Red Dead Online players are about to see something they have not experienced for years. Rockstar Games decided to add fresh zombie content to the struggling online game. The update launches today at 5 AM Eastern Time and brings four brand new missions. Players can help author Theodore Levin investigate mysterious supernatural events across the Wild West. The Strange Tales of the West missions let cowboys battle undead creatures and strange machines. Gamers can find these adventures at any Post Office or their camp's Lockbox. They can also start the missions directly from their player menu. All Telegram Missions offer triple rewards for gold, money, and experience points during July. Naturalist players receive special bonuses this...
Intel and SK Hynix Forge Supercharged GPUs, AI Servers Quake
Intel made major announcements about future graphics cards at its Seoul tech summit. The chip maker revealed plans for fresh Arc GPUs that target Edge AI servers. These new products should arrive during the final quarter of 2025. The company also confirmed a partnership with SK Hynix for advanced memory technology. Their collaboration focuses on the upcoming Jaguar Shores AI accelerators. The current Arc lineup features Battlemage chips that power both gaming and professional cards. Intel sells the B580 and B570 for gamers and the PRO B60 and PRO B50 for workstations. The new Edge AI products might use the mysterious BMG-G31 chip that has appeared in recent leaks. This same processor could also power future gaming cards from Intel. SK...
Nintendo Nixes Amazon US-Switch 2 Still Shatters Records
Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's American website after a messy dispute over knockoff sellers. Bloomberg discovered that cheap game resellers were buying Nintendo gear from Southeast Asia and flipping it for profit on Amazon. These sneaky merchants undercut Nintendo's official prices and made the company mad. Amazon tried to fix things with special stickers to prove products were real. Nintendo said no thanks and walked away from the deal. The gaming giant's decision cost Amazon big when the Switch 2 launched. Amazon missed out on selling the hottest new console because of the ongoing feud. The Switch 2 became the fastest-selling game system ever with 3.5 million sales in just four days worldwide. American gamers still bought...
RTX 5050 Trails 4060 in Benchmarks—Budget Gamers Left Hanging
Inno3D just released the first performance numbers for NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card. The company tested the $249 budget GPU against older models like the RTX 4060 and RTX 3060. Results show the new card delivers mixed performance that might disappoint gamers. The RTX 5050 beats the RTX 4060 in some synthetic tests but falls behind in others. Gaming performance tells a similar story of ups and downs. Four popular games were used to test real-world performance. The RTX 5050 managed to outpace the older RTX 3060 by nearly 19 percent in some titles. However, the card struggled against the RTX 4060 in most gaming scenarios. Far Cry 6 showed the closest competition between the two newer cards. Borderlands 3, Horizon Zero Dawn...
Struggling Bobi Wine Owes Clare Choppa His Big Break
Bobi Wine paid tribute to media star Clare Choppa at her Monday burial service. The politician told mourners that Choppa helped launch his music career across Western Uganda. He said the late radio host believed in him when he was just another struggling artist trying to make it big. Choppa gave him the break he needed to become famous nationwide. Wine credited her kindness for changing his entire life path. The future president met Choppa back in December 2001 at Radio West station. Wine had traveled to Rwebikoona with other musicians hoping to promote their songs on air. He arrived at the station around 11pm but the manager had already gone home for the night. Wine decided to sleep on a bench in the reception area until morning. He...
Ugandan Doc Crushes HIV With Six-Month Super Shot
Doctor Flavia Matovu Kiweewa made medical history when she led Uganda's part of a major HIV prevention study. The scientist ran the PURPOSE 1 trial that tested a new drug called lenacapavir on young women across Uganda and South Africa. Her team worked at the research site linking Makerere University with Johns Hopkins University in Kampala. Uganda became one of just two African nations picked for this important health study. The breakthrough drug only needs one injection every six months to stop HIV infections. Results from the trial shocked medical experts around the world. Zero women who received lenacapavir caught HIV during the entire study period. Doctor Matovu called the findings incredible and said the research helps African...
Bonjour, Before ABC, Uganda's New Lingual Nightmare
Language teachers across Uganda want the government to start teaching French to young kids. The Alliance Française Kampala group leads this campaign for better education. They believe students who learn French early will have more job chances later. These educators visited schools around Masaka City to spread their message. Primary school students need this language skill to compete worldwide. French classes happen at some high schools right around the country. Teachers argue that waiting until teenage years makes learning much harder for students. Alliance Française Kampala launched visits to St Henry's College Kitovu and other local schools. Their team wants to check how French teaching works at each location. School leaders welcomed...
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