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ASUS just announced another monitor for people who think frames win games. The ROG Strix XG27AQNGV is a 360Hz screen targeting the esports crowd, and it will cost a solid 749.90 Euros when it launches in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This 27-inch display uses a QHD panel with a...

MSI finally dropped a Lightning card after a seven-year hiatus, and of course, it's a ludicrously limited run. The company just showed off the RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z, their new top-tier GPU built for insane overclocking. This thing is not for your average gamer. They are only making 1,300 of...

Intel's newest laptop chips are another swing at claiming the AI crown. The company launched its Core Ultra Series 300 mobile processors, built on a fresh platform called Panther Lake, using its 18A manufacturing tech. They are calling this their first AI PC platform on this node and their...

Acer just announced a whole stack of monitors, because why settle for one niche? Leading the pack is the Predator XB273U F6, a twenty-seven-inch screen made for esports with a wild five hundred hertz refresh rate at 1440p. It even has a special mode that drops the resolution to 720p to hit one...

AMD has just released a couple more chips to complete its lineup. They added two new Strix Halo APUs called the Ryzen AI Max Plus 388 and 392. These essentially slot in between the existing models by enhancing the integrated graphics while leaving the CPU part largely unchanged. Both chips keep...

NVIDIA's latest play is fixing motion blur instead of chasing higher numbers. They announced G-SYNC Pulsar, a new monitor tech aimed at competitive gamers. The whole idea is to make fast motion look clearer by changing how the screen's backlight works. Normally, an LCD screen refreshes its...

Talk about a cop who decided to become his own best customer. Knowledge Maphosa, a thirty-two-year-old police officer in Gwanda, got busted for running a weed spot out of his room at the actual police station. Detectives received a tip that the lawman was storing illegal stuff in his quarters...

Another day, another government workshop in a hotel conference room. Owen Ncube, the Midlands province minister, kicked off a strategic planning review in Bulawayo. Officials from the President's office and other provincial stakeholders were there. Ncube told the room that the province should...

Liberation hero's widow dies abroad, far from home. Nokuthula Bokwe was seventy eight years old when she died in her sleep at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her daughter, Noluthando Fikelephi Bokwe, confirmed the death and said the family is handling the loss of their...

ZB and FBC building societies just had their licenses yanked, but it's not a meltdown. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe cancelled them for two different reasons. ZB Building Society gave up its license voluntarily because its parent company, ZB Financial Holdings, decided to shut it down and stick...

A suspected serial killer’s court hearing revealed a year of pure horror in rural Zimbabwe. The details came out as Anymore Zvitsva, a thirty-three year old man, faced charges in Harare Magistrates Court. He is accused of killing nineteen people across eight murder counts, plus rape and...

Zimbabwe tries to fix rural schools with tech while also telling teachers to stop being corrupt. The government there is handing out a bunch of gadgets to poor rural areas next week, starting in Manicaland province, then hitting Matabeleland South. Their education minister, Torerai Moyo, said...

This agricultural boom seems almost too good to be true. Heavy rains have farmers reportedly optimistic across Zimbabwe, with crops flourishing and livestock health improving due to better grazing. Officials warn that those same rains bring flood risks, yet the mood is largely positive...

Zimbabwe's trafficking crisis keeps feeding on desperation. A woman named Martha Murehwa returned home after being trapped in domestic servitude in Oman, her passport seized, following false promises of a hotel job. Her story is common, with many citizens lured to nations like Oman, the UAE, and...

Harare's flooding is a brutal monument to civic failure. Residents are ripping the city council for negligence after heavy rain turned streets into rivers, calling the disaster totally man-made. Major suburbs and downtown roads flooded badly, with ironic knee-deep water raging right outside the...

Zimbabwe just told foreign businesses to hand over their keys. The government set a January 31 deadline for foreign companies in reserved economic sectors to submit plans for compliance. This new policy forces those firms to either regularize their operations or exit, aiming to protect local...

Free plugin alert for digital audio destruction. Autodafe dropped a bitcrusher that wrecks sounds with bit depth and sample rate reduction. It creates textures from mild grit to full digital chaos, featuring a dry versus wet blend knob. The interface is minimal and built for real-time tweaking...

Audeze just dropped their new pricey gaming cans. The Maxwell 2 headset is here, boasting bigger 90mm planar magnetic drivers for better sound and spatial tricks. Audeze says their SLAM tech improves bass, while AI processing cleans up chat audio by killing background noise. Comfort gets a nod...

Triller just got yeeted off the stock market. The app company blew deadlines for their financial paperwork, making Nasdaq delist their stock. A panel confirmed the boot after Triller missed filing its annual and quarterly reports. Their shares, traded as ILLR, are now only available...

UK music streaming is finally hitting a wall. The latest numbers show tracks got over 210 billion plays last year, but that growth is seriously cooling off. It only inched up 5.5 percent, which is way slower than before. Streaming now makes up almost 90 percent of all music listening there...