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Google doubled its chip orders at MediaTek for the upcoming TPU v7e after seeing wild demand from both internal teams and outside customers. The company split manufacturing between MediaTek and Broadcom to grab more CoWoS packaging capacity from TSMC, which speeds up how fast they can ship these...

Nvidia rolled out its Nemotron 3 lineup with three model sizes called Nano at 30 billion parameters, Super hitting around 100 billion, and Ultra pushing 500 billion for heavy-duty AI tasks. The smallest version dropped already and supposedly runs four times faster than the previous generation...

CI Games dropped the first actual gameplay footage for Lords of the Fallen II at The Game Awards, and the studio confirmed the sequel hits shelves sometime next year. The trailer showed off a dismemberment system that lets players hack enemies apart more efficiently, plus the developer promised...

Larian Studios basically told fans their next Divinity game will dwarf Baldur's Gate 3 in scope after dropping a cinematic teaser at The Game Awards. Publishing Director Michael Douse mentioned the team wanted to respect player intelligence instead of just throwing shock value at them, and the...

Capcom dropped comparison footage showing Monster Hunter Wilds getting way smoother after Title Update 4 drops with over 100 performance tweaks. Tests on AMD Ryzen 5 5600X with RX 6600 and Intel Core i5-10400 with RTX 2060 Super both pulled around 10 extra frames per second during boss scraps...

Hard drive prices jumped 4 percent compared to last quarter, which marks the biggest spike in two years, and the whole mess stems from data centers gobbling up storage capacity for AI workloads. Big Tech companies are building massive facilities that need exabytes worth of HDDs because storing...

Neon Giant dropped NO LAW at The Game Awards, and yeah, everyone immediately compared it to Cyberpunk 2077 because both games lean into the cyberpunk first-person open-world shooter RPG thing. Creative Director Tor Frick admits the studio deals with those comparisons internally, but insists...

Capcom keeps printing money by bouncing between Resident Evil remakes and fresh entries, and the publisher's strategy hit different after RE7 went first-person. The studio dropped remakes of RE2 and RE3 back-to-back before Village wrapped up the seventh game's story arc, then the RE4 remake...

Apple might slap a $2,399 price tag on the iPhone Fold, but the prototype is apparently ditching Face ID to keep things skinny. Some leaker on Weibo says the foldable will pack a 7.58-inch inner screen and a 5.25-inch outside display, with authentication handled by a side-mounted fingerprint...

Apple might ditch the iPhone 19 label and jump straight to iPhone 20 for the 20th-anniversary model dropping in 2027, and some researcher from Omdia says the device could feature a completely bezel-free screen with all four edges curved. LG is apparently dropping close to $300 million to retool...

Deputy Transport Minister David Kihenzile swung by the Land Transport Regulatory Authority booth at some transport conference in Arusha, and he was hyped about their tech setup that makes getting around less of a hassle. The authority rolled out digital tools like the Safari Ticket System for...

Mbeya Regional Commissioner Beno Malisa told government workers in the Southern Highlands Zone to start using the National Electronic Public Procurement System because the whole point is getting transparency and accountability locked down when buying stuff with taxpayer money. He said this while...

Tanzania scooped up five trophies at the World Travel Awards in Bahrain, and Natural Resources Minister Ashatu Kijaji grabbed them at a ceremony in Dodoma. Serengeti National Park got tagged as the planet's dopest national park, while Zanzibar landed recognition for meetings and conferences...

Tanzania Posts Corporation is running a writing contest for kids between 9 and 15 to get them into letter writing and thinking about stuff happening around them. Marketing Director Ferdinand Kabyemela said the whole thing connects to digital changes, and kids can enter in either Kiswahili or...

Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi rolled out plans for a performance review system that'll supposedly make government leaders more accountable and productive. He dropped this during World Ethics and Human Rights Day celebrations at Dimani Conference Hall, and he made it clear that public...

Tanzania's gunning for 8,000 megawatts of power generation by hitting up different energy sources, and Energy Minister Deogratias Ndejembi says they're planning to wrap the whole thing up by 2030. He dropped this during a staff meeting in Morogoro, where he basically told everyone to stop being...

Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba showed up at a funeral mass in Songea's Ruvuma region to pay respects to Jenista Mhagama, who used to represent Peramiho in Parliament. Speaker Mussa Zungu was there as well, and the whole thing went down at St. Benedict Catholic Church with a bunch of government...

Tanzania's Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi joined a video call from Bukoba to back SADC's push for getting Madagascar stabilized after a recent coup. The regional security bloc held a meeting of its Political, Defence and Security Organisation troika to figure out how to handle the chaos in the...

Tanzania is betting big on youth employment through Vision 2050 after Planning Minister Kitila Mkumbo dropped the roadmap targeting eight million jobs and 50 billion dollars in investment. The government set up a One Stop Facilitation Centre that bundles 14 public agencies under one roof for...

DAWASA boss Mkama Bwire rolled through Kinondoni District, checking water delivery schedules in Mwananyamala Ward, and he wants people to build habits around conservation instead of wasting supply when taps actually run. The inspection confirmed residents were getting service twice weekly based...