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Zimbabwe Wows SADC With First ISO Certified Parliament
Regional leaders praised Zimbabwe during the 57th SADC Parliamentary Forum meeting at Victoria Falls. Over 300 delegates from southern African countries attended the gathering. Parliament speakers and lawmakers discussed regional cooperation and development issues. Secretary General Boemo Sekgoma highlighted Zimbabwe's achievements at the opening ceremony. The country became the first parliament worldwide to earn ISO quality certification. Zimbabwe created the AIDS Levy fund that helps fight HIV across Africa. Other nations copied this domestic financing model for healthcare programs. The trust fund allows Zimbabwe to expand treatment and prevention services without foreign aid. SADC officials called the program a continental success...
Amazon MGM Pays 2M to Snap Up Split Fiction Flick
Amazon MGM Studios secured the rights to adapt Split Fiction into a major motion picture. Sydney Sweeney will star as the lead character. Jon M. Chu from Wicked will direct the video game adaptation. The studio paid over 2 million dollars for the project. Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese will write the screenplay. Multiple studios competed for the movie rights during March at the Game Developers Conference. Sony and other companies made offers for the popular video game property. Amazon MGM Studios eventually won the bidding war against competitors. The deal brings together both It Takes Two and Split Fiction movies under the same studio. Sweeney also signed for another video game film based on Out Run. Split Fiction sold nearly 4 million...
iPhone 17 Pro Earpiece Just Got Crazy Huge
Apple plans to make longer earpieces for the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max models. The company wants better phone call quality through improved speaker design. Users will hear clearer voices during conversations with friends and family. Apple builds phones with speakers on top and bottom for better sound. The longer earpiece lets more audio pass through the device. A reliable Apple news source shared this information on social media recently. The person has correctly predicted many Apple products before they launched. Engineers may use metalens technology to create extra space inside the phone. Face ID sensors become smaller with this new approach. Apple gains room to extend the earpiece length. The metalens reduces the Dynamic Island...
Gamers Snap Up RTX 5090s in Nvidia Summer Frenzy
NVIDIA launched a summer contest called GeForce Summer of RTX that gives away expensive graphics cards and gaming computers. The company will distribute 20 prizes over two weeks through major gaming events like Summer Game Fest and Xbox Games Showcase. Players can win RTX 5090 graphics cards, RTX 5080 gaming systems, and special items from the upcoming Doom game. Contest entries require comments with hashtags on NVIDIA social media posts during each event announcement. The prize collection features 13 RTX 5090 graphics cards and custom gaming computers worth up to 5700 dollars each. NVIDIA partnered with board manufacturers to offer special edition cards wrapped with Doom artwork. Three custom gaming PCs come equipped with RTX 5080...
AMD Hypes 8GB RX 9060 XT Despite VRAM Hate
AMD defends their RX 9060 XT graphics card that comes with only 8GB of memory. Frank Azor from AMD says gamers still want the cheaper version despite criticism. The 8GB model costs fifty dollars less than the 16GB version. Many players complained that 8GB memory cannot handle modern games properly. AMD believes the lower memory card targets people who play games at 1080p resolution. Most gamers play at 1080p resolution according to AMD research data. The company designed the 8GB version specifically for those players who prefer lower settings. Both memory versions use identical graphics chips except for storage capacity differences. AMD copied a strategy that NVIDIA uses with multiple memory options under one product name. Critics say...
Witcher IV Tech Reveal to Blow Your Mind
CD Projekt Red will show new technology for The Witcher IV during tomorrow's State of Unreal presentation. The game studio plans to reveal advanced features that will power future games. Players might see the first real footage from the upcoming fantasy adventure. The company confirmed these plans through social media posts today. Game developers often use these events to demonstrate technical progress. Unreal Engine 5 games suffer from performance problems that frustrate PC gamers. CD Projekt Red knows about these stuttering issues and wants to fix them. The studio presented solutions last year that could help solve these widespread troubles. Many recent games struggle with smooth gameplay because of engine limitations. The company...
007 First Light Reveal Shocks Fans
IO Interactive named their James Bond video game 007 First Light after years of secrecy. The company will show the game during Summer Game Fest on Friday June 6. Players take control of a young Bond before he becomes Agent 007. The story follows his journey to earn secret agent status through dangerous missions. IO Interactive first announced Project 007 back during 2020 without revealing many details. Gamers have waited five years for news about the highly anticipated spy adventure. The studio created the popular Hitman series which makes them perfect for stealth-based gameplay. Their website calls the project a completely original Bond origin story. Summer Game Fest partners with IO Interactive for the major gaming event. Industry...
CoreWeave Gobbles 700MW Deals AI World Quakes
CoreWeave has signed massive power deals since going public during March. The cloud computing company rents NVIDIA graphics cards for artificial intelligence work. Barclays found that CoreWeave added around 700 megawatts of power contracts after its stock market launch. The firm helps businesses access powerful computer chips without buying them directly. NVIDIA gives CoreWeave early access to new graphics cards before other companies. Applied Digital announced a new 15-year deal with CoreWeave worth 7 billion dollars. The agreement provides 250 megawatts of power and data center space for CoreWeave operations. Analyst Raimo Lenschow believes CoreWeave controls nearly 2 gigawatts of total power capacity across all contracts. Galaxy...
Intel Nova Lake Desktop Chips Flip Script with 52 Cores
Intel announced its Nova Lake processor lineup for desktop and laptop computers. The chips will arrive after Bartlett Lake-S and Panther Lake processors reach stores. Company slides revealed these next-generation CPUs during recent presentations to media outlets. Nova Lake represents major advances beyond current processor designs. Bartlett Lake-S processors feature only performance cores without efficiency cores. These chips pack up to 12 cores and support 24 threads through simultaneous multithreading. The processors work with existing LGA 1700 and 1800 sockets rather than newer designs. Intel brands these CPUs under the Core Series 2 name. Nova Lake-S processors will use the LGA 1954 socket and deliver massive core counts. Early...
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