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South Africa's Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is heading to Mabvete Village in Limpopo's Vhembe District on Friday to flip the switch on a solar microgrid that powers over 700 homes without tapping the national grid. The setup runs on industrial panels and battery storage while...

Four dudes busted into a Tembisa home around midnight and shot a 61-year-old school principal dead while robbing the place in Maokeng Extension. The suspects beat up his wife and son before grabbing valuables and bouncing, leaving the family wrecked, and the community shook about safety during...

Gambia Revenue Authority kicked off a workshop at the Senegambia Beach Hotel, where senior staff and gender focal points are getting trained on diversity and inclusion stuff for five straight days. Deputy Director Binta Sallah Kandeh said the whole point is embedding equity into policies and...

Some new coalition called the People's Alliance for Change rolled out at Alliance Française, saying nobody can fix Gambia solo while laying out their game plan for next year's presidential race. Deputy chair Papa Jagne mentioned nearly 15 political parties already vibed with their pitch to back...

Turkey's environment ministry ran a workshop for 47 Gambian officials to teach them how to deal with desertification, land degradation, and flooding problems that hit during the rainy season. The program went down at the Senegambia Hotel with reps from the Turkish cooperation agency explaining...

Some community funds in Sanyang pulled nearly two million dalasi over the past year from diaspora members and local donors who chipped in through GoFundMe and other fundraising channels. The group dropped around 1.4 million on stuff like mortuary support, medical interventions, legal fees, and...

Some peace-building workshop just wrapped up in Kerewan, where youth groups, women, and disabled people got trained on handling conflicts and leading communities better. The West Africa Network for Peace-building ran the whole thing with UNDP backing and UN money, bringing together folks to...

The UK government wants Apple and Google to slap nudity-detection software on iPhones and Android devices to stop kids from shooting or sharing explicit pics of genitals. Officials are pushing for explicit imagery to get blocked by default across all gadgets, with adults needing to verify their...

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...