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Intel Foundry is apparently farming out some of its EMIB packaging work to Amkor over in South Korea, and people are reading this as a sign that demand for their advanced packaging tech is getting pretty wild. The company has enough capacity stateside to handle things, but outsourcing to Amkor...

Producer Noriaki Okamura says Metal Gear Solid might get more remakes and fresh games down the line, but nothing is locked in yet. He pointed out that each game in the series would need its own remake strategy since the franchise spans everything from old pixel art titles to modern cinematic...

JPMorgan's tracker shows Apple basically crushed it with the iPhone 17 lineup during Black Friday week compared to how the iPhone 16 did around the same stretch last year. Wait times jumped to six days versus just four for the previous generation, and the base model keeps sitting in double-digit...

NVIDIA locked down exclusive dibs on TSMC's A16 manufacturing process for their Feynman GPU lineup that drops after Rubin chips hit the market. The Taiwanese fab is basically building production capacity just to keep Jensen Huang happy, and Apple might skip this node entirely to jump straight to...

Samsung apparently got tired of people roasting them for slow charging speeds, and the Galaxy S26 lineup might actually ship with decent wireless power delivery for once. Someone dug through OneUI 8.5 beta code and found references to super-fast wireless charging, which lines up with rumors that...

Intel's apparently cooking up a refresh for their budget Wildcat Lake chips before the original lineup even drops. Some leaker named Jaykihn says the company plans to drop a beefier config with four performance cores and four low-power efficiency cores, which doubles the P-core count from the...

Samsung's chip-making wing is basically ghosting its own phone division over DRAM supplies because memory prices went absolutely bonkers this year. The semiconductor crew refuses to lock in more than three months of RAM shipments at a time for Galaxy devices, and executives had to step in just...

ASUS dropped another Mini-ITX board for AM5 socket builds, and this one rocks an all-white colorway for people obsessed with matching their entire setup. The ROG STRIX B850-I Gaming WIFI7 W keeps the same specs as the black version but swaps out the paint job. The board packs a 13-phase power...

Sony quietly tweaked the liquid metal cooling setup on newer PS5 and PS5 Slim units after people kept complaining about thermal paste leaking all over the place inside their consoles. The company borrowed the deeper groove design from the PS5 Pro, and the fix showed up on CFI-2100 and CFI-2200...

Moody's just smacked Liquid Intelligent Technologies with another credit downgrade to Caa2, which basically means the ratings agency thinks this massive African telecom company might struggle to pay back $620 million coming due next year. The kicker is that their Zimbabwean operation appears to...

Gambia Ports Authority put out a tender looking for a dredging outfit to dig out the Banjul access channel from 9.3 meters down to at least 11 meters, which would let bigger ships roll through. This marks the first time the port has ever tried something like this, and the authority says deeper...

Jacob Francis Sarr kicked off the Taranga Youth Foundation at a church in Kololi, basically trying to tackle mental health problems and give Gambian kids better options than risking their lives on boats to Europe. The guy got emotional about watching young people back home getting crushed by...

Goodluck Jonathan says Guinea-Bissau's president basically faked a military takeover to stop the election results from getting announced. The former Nigerian leader was monitoring the vote with the West African Elders Forum, and he thinks Umaro Sissoco Embaló staged the whole thing because the...

A prosecutor in Ziguinchor wants a sex worker locked up for two years, fined five million CFA francs, and deported after accusations she knowingly spread HIV. The case blew up on social media, and crowds packed the courthouse to watch the foreign national face charges. Defense lawyers tried...

Four dancers from Flex Fuzion Dance Academy made Gambia look good at the World Federation of Acrobatic and Dance Sports World Cup in Moscow. Mariama Camara, Kaddijatou Baldeh, Sanjaku Kamara, and Daniel Taylor competed against teams from 30 countries, and they grabbed sixth place globally with...

Benjamin Mkapa Hospital rolled into Singida with heart specialists to screen and treat cardiac issues in both kids and grown-ups, and people showed up in droves. Acting Assistant Director Rayhan Mbisso said the five-day camp brought cardiologists who can handle patients across age groups, while...

Russia's nuclear outfit Rosatom just got the green light to 3D-print parts for their RITM-200 reactor, and they cranked out a terminal box for pump gear as their first piece. This whole thing apparently draws on six decades of nuclear ship experience mixed with fancy modern design software and...

Zanzibar's president, Hussein Ali Mwinyi, told a Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council delegation that the islands are hunting for more business partners, especially in blue economy and tourism projects. These two sectors pull in about 30 percent of the GDP, and Mwinyi thinks there's...

Tanzania's former top judge, Mohammed Chande Othman, is heading up a nine-person team to dig into what went down during the October general election mess. The commission has six main areas to cover, starting with figuring out what kicked off the violence and what people were thinking when they...

A health specialist from the East Central and Southern Africa Health Community warns that antimicrobial resistance has become a massive systems-level threat affecting everything from medical care to food security across the region. Microorganisms are evolving to resist medicines, and infections...