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    Rebellion the Recaller stands firm, reggae roots unshaken by world turmoil

    Bafoday Drammeh, who goes by Rebellion the Recaller, went off about Gaza during an interview with Gambian Talents TV and called out powerful people for staying quiet while civilians get hammered. The reggae artist moved to The Gambia when he was 11 after being born in Europe, and he thinks money...
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    Francis Lans remixes gospel in Gambia, faith meets fresh style

    Francis Lans is building a whole different vibe for gospel music in The Gambia by mixing faith with local rhythms and a style that actually connects with younger people. The guy started rapping in high school for fun with his crew, The Light, and then his track Blessings Rain blew up and turned...
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    Apple’s M5 iPad Pro crushes rivals, ultra settings, and 60FPS

    The M5 iPad Pro can run Where Winds Meet at a locked 60 frames per second with every setting cranked to Ultra, which puts it a tier above what the A19 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 can handle. The tablet never drops frames and pushes better 1% lows than the iPhone 17 Pro Max, mostly because...
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    SK Hynix warns DRAM shortage drags on, AI eats up supply

    SK Hynix dropped some internal numbers showing that regular consumer RAM is going to stay tight until at least the end of 2028, and the company is basically admitting they care more about AI server cash than selling cheap memory to PC builders. Server demand keeps eating up production capacity...
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    Nvidia’s H200 flies off shelves in China, margins squeezed as ban lifts

    NVIDIA's older Hopper H200 chips are apparently blowing up in China after the US lifted restrictions on last-gen AI hardware while keeping the ban on newer Blackwell stuff. The company might spin up extra production capacity to handle orders without messing up American supply chains, but there's...
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    DRAM squeeze trims smartphone RAM, 4GB making a comeback

    The RAM crisis is about to absolutely tank smartphone specs, and entry-level phones might drop down to just 4GB of memory while mid-range devices get stuck at 6GB to 8GB instead of the usual 12GB. TrendForce says the shortage will drag on past late 2027, which means flagship models are also...
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    Star Wars Old Republic reveal, wait ahead

    The Game Awards dropped a surprise Star Wars title called Fate of the Old Republic, and Casey Hudson from the original KOTOR is running the show at his new studio, Arcanaut. The developer just got set up this summer in Edmonton and Kelowna, which has people worried that this thing is never...
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    Half-Life 3 still hidden as Valve sweats Steam Machine price

    The Game Awards wrapped up without any sign of Half-Life 3, even though people were expecting an announcement. Journalist Mike Straw says Valve is holding back because RAM prices are completely messed up right now, which would make their Steam Machine way more expensive than planned. The game...
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    Dell hikes prices due to DRAM shortages, costs soar for PCs and laptops

    Dell just leaked internal emails warning employees that massive price bumps are hitting their commercial laptop and desktop lines because DRAM got stupid expensive. The PC giant plans to slap an extra $130 to $230 on devices with 32GB of RAM, and systems packing 128GB could jump by up to $765...
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    Intel doubles down on ASICs and edge AI, eyes Broadcom rivalry

    Intel exec John Pitzer told a conference crowd that Team Blue wants to chase edge inference chips and custom ASICs after getting smoked by Nvidia and AMD in the datacenter AI race. The company thinks it can pull a Broadcom or Marvell move by selling custom silicon services while also offering...
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    iOS 26 leak teases smarter Siri, big Health app revamp

    Some dude got his hands on an unreleased internal iOS 26 build, and the code dumps are spilling details about updates through iOS 28. Apple plans to drop context-aware Siri upgrades with iOS 26.4 that let the assistant handle tasks inside apps and understand what is actually on your screen. The...
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    Witchfire hits 500K sales, new melee update unleashes chaos

    Polish studio The Astronauts just announced their roguelite shooter Witchfire crossed 500,000 copies sold after two years in early access, and they dropped a massive update called The Reckoning that adds four melee weapons like the Morgenstern and Katar, plus three guns. The triple-barrelled...
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    Yakuza creator debuts Gang of Dragon, Don Lee takes the lead

    Toshihiro Nagoshi dropped the trailer for Gang of Dragon at The Game Awards after leaving SEGA back in 2021 and starting Nagoshi Studios under NetEase. The action-adventure game stars Korean actor Ma Dong-seok as Shin Ji-seong, a high-ranking thug in a crime syndicate operating around the...
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    Intel teases Arc B770 again, gamers left waiting for launch

    Intel keeps teasing the Arc B770 graphics card but refuses to actually ship the thing. The chipmaker dropped another vague reply on social media about being hyped for the B770 alongside Panther Lake and Nova Lake, yet nobody has seen a release date or hard confirmation that this GPU will even...
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    id Software devs vote union, power shift hits the gaming industry

    Developers at id Software just unionized after 165 workers voted to join up with the Communications Workers of America, and the DOOM studio became another Microsoft-owned team using that labor neutrality deal the company signed during the Activision Blizzard buyout. Lead programmer Chris Hays...
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    ASUS teases Zenbook DUO with dual batteries, power play on display

    ASUS dropped a teaser for their upcoming Zenbook DUO laptop that apparently stuffs battery packs on both sides of the chassis instead of just one. The company posted a short clip showing off the dual-battery setup before the official CES reveal, and this thing seems pretty wild compared to most...
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    Colorful debuts iGame X870E Vulcan OC, DDR5-10000 ready

    Colorful dropped their iGame X870E Vulcan OC V14 motherboard for AM5 socket chips, and the thing pushes memory speeds past DDR5-10000 with a dual-DIMM layout. The board rocks a beefy 22-phase power delivery system rated at 110 amps per phase, plus it supports Ryzen 9000 chips at DDR5-8600 speeds...
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    Deadpool lands in Marvel Rivals, Rogue joins the brawl

    NetEase dropped a Season 6 trailer for Marvel Rivals at The Game Awards, showing Deadpool joining the hero shooter roster mid-January. The Merc with a Mouth brings his usual fourth-wall-breaking nonsense to a cinematic reveal that matches his comic personality, and the developer tagged the...
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    Jonathan Blow drops epic puzzle game, indie world buzzes

    Jonathan Blow and his studio, Thekla, just dropped a trailer for Order of the Sinking Star at The Game Awards, and the indie dev behind Braid and The Witness says this puzzle game absolutely dwarfs anything he has shipped before. The PC release hits sometime next year with over a thousand...
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    Elon Musk sets up shop at Samsung fab, Tesla chip plans heat up

    Samsung gave Elon Musk his personal workspace at the Taylor factory, where he can babysit Tesla's chip production lines directly. The Korean chairman met with the Tesla boss to hash out details on AI5 and AI6 silicon, and both companies locked in a massive $16.5 billion partnership that puts...
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