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    Hogwarts Legacy and CoD hit GeForce NOW, Ubisoft+ deal delivers

    NVIDIA just dropped the full GeForce NOW lineup for December, and Hogwarts Legacy finally cut the first Activision games hitting Ubisoft Plus through the cloud service. Ubisoft got Activision's cloud rights as part of the Microsoft buyout deal, so subscribers can stream Modern Warfare II and...
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    Samsung limits Exynos 2600 to Korea, citing heat and yields

    Samsung dropped the first trailer for its Exynos 2600 chip, and it looks like the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, Dimensity 9500, and A19 Pro might finally have real competition. The Korean company is bringing back Exynos chips to the Galaxy S26 lineup after three years of Snapdragon-only releases...
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    Microsoft moves Xbox production to Vietnam, dodging tariffs

    Microsoft is moving Xbox production to Vietnam through Foxconn's Fushan Technology, which wants approval to make 4.8 million units per year. The shift helps dodge tariffs and component price spikes hitting consoles made in China, and it covers everything from the actual boxes to controllers and...
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    Intel Foundry bets big on chips and packaging synergy

    Intel's VP of Corporate Planning, John Pitzer, hit up the UBS Global Technology and AI Conference to gas up the foundry business, saying their 18A process yields are getting better every month since CEO Lip-Bu Tan showed up. The company is cranking out Panther Lake chips right this second, and...
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    Ghoul’s bounty hunt ignites Fallout 76’s biggest map drop

    Bethesda pushed out the Burning Springs update for Fallout 76, and it unlocks a whole new chunk of Ohio that wasn't in any previous game. The expansion brings Walton Goggins back as The Ghoul from the show to hand out bounty contracts, with basic Grunt Hunts targeting legendary enemies and...
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    Nubia folds a bigger battery into a slimmer frame

    Nubia dropped their first foldable phone, and it's packing a 6,560mAh battery into a device with 35.7 square inches of screen space. Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold has way more display at 52.8 square inches, but only manages 5,600mAh despite being barely thinner when opened up. The Nubia Fold runs...
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    Elon Musk was NVIDIA's first AI believer

    Jensen Huang showed up on Joe Rogan's podcast and dropped a story about how nobody wanted NVIDIA's first DGX-1 AI system back when they launched it. The CEO said Elon Musk was literally the only person who stepped up to buy one, and Jensen personally drove the machine to San Francisco to deliver...
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    Angel-powered chaos descends in Diablo IV overhaul

    Blizzard is dropping Season of Divine Intervention for Diablo IV, and it brings monster AI upgrades, a complete itemization rework, and new defense mechanics. The update adds evolved enemies with smarter behavior, over 20 fresh elite affixes, and less clumping in champion packs. Items get four...
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    Steampunk vengeance simmers in Ming-flavored metropolis

    Pathea Games showed off The God Slayer, and their Business Development Director, Aaron Deng, spilled details about the open-world steampunk RPG. The team switched from their previous engine to Unreal Engine 5, but Deng said their experience making the My Time games helped them handle the...
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    Qi-powered revenge brews in steampunk Zhou

    Pathea Games dropped a trailer for The God Slayer, an open-world steampunk action RPG set in Zhou, a fictional Ming-inspired Asian city. Business Development Director Aaron Deng said the team has been working on it for about a year and a half. The story follows Cheng, whose family gets wiped out...
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    Headrush pedals get drum machine, Tidal drops in

    HeadRush just dropped version 5.0 firmware for their Prime, Core, and Flex Prime guitar pedals, and it's packing some legit upgrades. The biggest additions are a built-in drum machine that uses Alesis Drums and BFD tech, plus direct Tidal streaming for practice sessions. Users also get three...
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    Tanzania kids code the future with Russian tech fest

    Russia dropped a robotics and educational tech festival at Tanzania's National Institute of Transport with help from Rossotrudnichestvo and partners like 1T IT Company and Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University. Students and teachers got access to robot-building workshops, VR design...
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    PM wraps up ministerial directive seminar in Dar es Salaam

    Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba wrapped up a directive seminar for ministers and deputy ministers at Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam after Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi kicked things off earlier. The whole point was getting cabinet members on the same page about...
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    TRA offices reopen nationwide, data stays safe

    Tanzania Revenue Authority boss Yusuph Mwenda said all the tax offices that got wrecked during the election chaos are back up and running after getting fixed. The commissioner stopped by the new Buguruni location in Dar es Salaam and felt bad that people had to trek across town while the seven...
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    Tanzania courts Turkish cash at global biz summit

    Tanzania's ambassador to Turkey, Iddi Seif Bakari, met with Turkish business leaders at the Vision 25 Connectivity Conference to pull investment and strengthen trade links between both countries. The Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association hosted the event in Istanbul, and it...
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    Kimambi case stalls, court demands probe wrap-up by January

    The court in Dar es Salaam pushed the economic sabotage case against Mange Kimambi to late January after prosecutors said they needed more time to wrap up their investigation. Kimambi lives in the United States and got hit with money laundering charges over 138.5 million shillings tied to...
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    Tanzania tracks carbon in trees beyond forests, gets tech boost

    Tanzania Forest Service sent two conservationists to a workshop in Lilongwe, where African countries learned how Michigan State University tracks carbon stored in trees growing outside actual forests. Rogers Nyinondi and Jameseth Lazaro represented TFS because Tanzania pledged to restore 5.2...
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    Festive bus boom, LATRA opens short-term license rush

    LATRA started handing out temporary licenses to bus operators in Dar es Salaam so they can handle the holiday rush on packed routes. Salum Pazzy from the authority said buses need at least 40 seats or a special group license to qualify, and they have to be hooked up to the Vehicle Tracking...
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    Geologists gear up, small miners eye Mbeya gold rush

    Tanzania Geological Society president Prof Elisante Mshiu told over 4,000 scientists in Mbeya that geologists are pushing small-scale mining forward while helping hunt for oil and gas deposits across the country. The annual meeting pulled researchers from government offices, universities, and...
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    Tanzania locks in carbon cash, eyes climate credibility

    Tanzania wants measurable gains from carbon trading that line up with its climate goals, and Prof Peter Msoffe from the Vice President's office said the country needs transparent systems backing its national climate pledges. Officials in Dodoma ran a workshop analyzing policy frameworks under...
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