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Qualcomm's next Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip is getting some early performance leaks, and the integrated GPU looks like a solid upgrade, but nothing wild. The company seems focused on better efficiency and steadier performance instead of trying to match Apple's mobile graphics or even low-end...

Colorful just dropped two AM5 motherboards under its CVN label, and they're calling them the B850 Battle-Ax and Meow editions. Both boards run on the B850 chipset, work with Ryzen 7000 chips, and should support future Zen processors down the line. The company is basically filling a gap for...

PPC Limited boss Matias Cardarelli basically shrugged off Aliko Dangote's $1 billion Zimbabwe investment announcement, saying there's a massive difference between press releases and actual money showing up. The billionaire signed deals with the government for cement and energy projects, but...

Renewable energy deals across Africa keep getting killed by financing setups that only work for massive builds, and everyone at this investor forum in Rabat keeps saying the same thing. ACWA Power exec Hashim Ghabashi pointed out that slapping the same requirements on a 30 megawatt project that...

Energy investors trying to make moves in Africa keep running into the same BS, according to Nkem Onwuamaegbu from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, and she laid it all out at a forum in Rabat. Basically, the regulatory environment stays unpredictable, and most public utilities have...

Renewable energy rollouts across Africa keep getting wrecked by supply chain nightmares and red tape that drag projects way past their deadlines. Hussain Al Nowais from AMEA Power told a panel in Rabat that port jams, customs delays, and sluggish development finance institution approval...

Zimbabwe just tweaked its 2% transaction tax instead of killing it completely like business groups wanted, and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube dropped the rate on local currency deals to 1.5% while keeping the US dollar levy at 2%. The government is letting companies write off the tax as a...

Ethiopian Airlines is dropping $12.5 billion on a massive new airport that should handle 110 million people yearly when it's done, and the CEO Mesfin Tasew Bekele says a Chinese bank already threw in $500 million, with the African Development Bank matching that. The current Addis Ababa airport...

Zimbabwe's mining sector is on track to hit $7 billion in earnings by year-end and should climb to $7.5 billion next year, with gold and platinum group metals carrying most of the weight. Gold deliveries are expected to reach 45 tonnes as prices spike over 50% to about $4,160 per ounce, and...

Windows-G just dropped E-NoiseGate600, a noise gate plugin built for REAPER that handles everything from cleaning up recordings to ducking vocals. The thing runs on JSFX and can do rhythmic gating plus gated reverb effects with exponential attack and release curves that keep everything smooth...

New Sonic Arts just patched Granite to version 1.6931, and the biggest thing is they added this grain double-buffering trick that cuts down on clicks and glitchy sounds. The granular texture generator also got trackpad support for MacBooks, so you can scroll through waveforms sideways, and the...

Sonuscore dropped a patch for their LUX Orchestral Strings library that tackles the laggy legato engine everyone was griping about. The devs went back and tweaked the delay timings to make the whole thing snappier, and they beefed up how the Transition Speed parameter actually responds when...

Neumann just pushed out version 1.5 of their RIME plugin, and it's loaded with upgrades for anyone running their NDH 20 or NDH 30 cans. The update brings better bass response across all speakers, sharper transients for mixing decisions, and 3DOF head tracking that follows your noggin movements...

Dreamtonics just dropped four new AI voices for Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro, and they're all multi-language beasts. Etta and Danny handle English as their main thing, while Yun Hua and Lang Chuan are Chinese-focused. Each voice packs multiple vocal modes for different vibes, and they all support...

Zimbabwe just shuffled its top military brass, and it looks like President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is stacking the deck for his 2030 power play. Lieutenant General Emmanuel Matatu got bumped up to General and took over as Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander after Philip Valerio Sibanda...

Two Zanu-PF guys convicted of a massive $7.7 million scam just got their sentencing pushed back because prosecutors need more time to get a victim impact statement ready. Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu have been sitting in jail since their arrest, and their lawyers tried to delay things even more...

Speaker Jacob Mudenda basically told two guys trying to block Zanu-PF's 2030 extension plan to sit down because they jumped the gun. Moreprecision Muzadzi and Pardon Gambakwe filed a case asking courts to stop any constitutional changes that would let President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa stay...

A cashier at Farm and City Centre in Zvishavane got hit with three years behind bars after he pocketed over $13,000 that he was supposed to deposit into company bank accounts. The 21-year-old guy, Danda Tinashe Tinotenda, was collecting cash from till operators and just kept it instead of making...

A 61-year-old woman from Bulawayo got completely scammed out of $20,700 and three vehicles by a self-proclaimed prophet who weaponized fake snake removals and spirit warnings. Innocentia Sekani fell victim to Madzibaba Lenny after her daughter visited him for spiritual help, and things spiraled...

Quebec wants streaming platforms to meet French-language music quotas, but a poll shows most people there hate the idea. The survey found that 66% of residents oppose government interference in what music shows up on their streams, and that number jumps to 75% among younger listeners. Bill 109...