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Tennyson Primary School threw a tree-planting event with the Zimbabwe Youth Empowerment and Development Institution, and they got 66 trees from Hillview Nursery through the Forestry Commission. ZYEDI boss Babongile Khumalo told the kids they were planting responsibility and future leadership...

Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe is pushing for a serious crackdown on shady gambling operations in Zimbabwe because illegal operators are basically stealing tax money and scamming people. Deputy Minister Chido Sanyatwe delivered his message at a Lotteries and Gaming Board workshop in...

The Zimbabwe government is telling everyone to chill about the upcoming switch to a single-currency system because their US dollar savings and investments are staying put. The National Development Strategy 2 document lays out how foreign currency-denominated assets will keep their value during...

Higher Life Foundation just dropped off a massive haul of medical gear at United Bulawayo Hospitals' maternity ward, and it's kind of a big deal for moms who can't afford private care. The equipment batch had stuff like newborn resuscitation tools, phototherapy lamps, ventilators for tiny...

Three ex-board members from Dabula Community Co-operative Limited in Kenmaur, Lupane District, Matabeleland North Province are being accused of stealing almost $400,000 from the organization. Silas Moyo, Perseverance Tshuma, and Mthenjwa Gumbo allegedly pocketed rental payments and other money...

INSTAK dropped 30 locally made Palpo tablets at Warren Park 1 Primary School through CEO Kwame Muzawazi, who went to the same school back in the 90s. The donation hits as part of corporate responsibility targeting the Warren Park area near their Liberation City project, and Bindura University...

Prosecutor General Loyce Matanda-Moyo visited Victoria Falls Magistrates' Court and pushed for spreading out drug-testing facilities across the country since the current centralized setup keeps creating massive delays that tank prosecutions. She told prosecutors their welfare matters for...

Yvonne Tivatye just got bumped up to official Station Manager at Capitalk 100.4 FM after running the place as acting boss since the summer. She started as Chief Producer before the promotion and earned recognition as Africa Gospel Show Presenter at the CLIMA Africa awards that went down in...

Minister Monica Mutsvangwa hit up Allied Timbers Zimbabwe in Mutare during the 16 Days of Activism Against GBV event and basically said the country needs to stop losing people to violence, especially the digital kind that keeps getting worse. She gave props to the company for building better...

Jaycee Rappadict scored two nominations at the Bulawayo Arts Awards and told everyone that this marks his first recognition from a Zimbabwean ceremony. The rapper landed spots in Outstanding Kwaito/House/Gqom and Outstanding Song of The Year for his track that basically launched his career, and...

Promoter Manu Mahaso went on local radio to apologize after South African vocalist MaWhoo's gig at Nexus nightclub turned messy when performer Noluntu J complained about getting mistreated. Mahaso said the drama started because Noluntu and her crew ditched their assigned performer seating to...

Kohler got caught lying about privacy features on its Dekoda toilet camera after security researcher Simon Fondrie-Teitler exposed that the company uses basic TLS encryption instead of real end-to-end encryption, as they advertised. The distinction matters because Kohler can fully access...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman straight-up called r/popular garbage and said the company is killing it off to replace the default feed with AI-powered personalization that actually matches what different users want to see. The feed has been around since 2017, but Huffman says it creates a fake...

Samsung teamed up with Amazon Prime Video, Microsoft Xbox, and Bethesda to turn its TVs into the main spot for everything Falltoo related, and the whole thing launched around Season Two, dropping on Prime Video. The company is giving away the entire first season for free on Samsung TV Plus...

Micron decided to axe the Crucial brand after decades of selling budget RAM and SSDs to regular people because AI companies keep throwing insane money at memory chips. The shift frees up supply for enterprise customers like OpenAI and Microsoft, who apparently need way more high-bandwidth memory...

WordPress took its experimental Telex thing from concept to actual production in like three months, and Matt Mullenweg showed off live business sites at State of the Word that used the AI platform to build pricing calculators and store directories through plain language prompts. The vibe-coding...

OpenAI grabbed Neptune, a startup that makes monitoring and debugging tools for training AI models, and the whole thing sounds like a pretty calculated infrastructure move. Neptune had been collaborating with OpenAI on metrics dashboards for foundation model teams before the acquisition went...

AWS dropped point-and-click tools for building custom AI models at re:Invent, and the serverless approach through Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI lets developers either use a guided interface or just describe what they want in plain language. The agent-led feature handles fine-tuning...

Google Photos just dropped its yearly recap thing, but this time, Gemini AI digs through your entire camera roll to pull out what it thinks actually mattered instead of just whatever got the most engagement. The system looks at patterns around your hobbies and relationships while analyzing photo...

Amazon dropped a new Fire TV thing where you can tell Alexa Plus to find specific movie scenes just by describing them out loud, and it actually jumps right to that moment instead of making you scrub through the whole film. The system uses Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude to figure out what you...