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The African Telecommunications Union teamed up with AFRALTI and Masterspace Solutions to run an IPv6 training session in Nairobi with 60 people from 30 different countries across the continent. The whole point is getting member states up to speed on ditching IPv4 restrictions and rolling out...

Seagate showed off a lab prototype hard drive hitting 6.9 terabytes on a single platter, which basically doubles what their commercial HAMR drives can do right now. The company already ran simulations for eight terabytes per platter and thinks seven-plus-terabyte platters could hit mass...

Cougar just dropped three gaming chairs, with the high-end Defensor S leading the pack at around 403 bucks. The flagship model rocks push-back lumbar support, magnetic pillows, 4D armrests and can recline back to 155 degrees while holding up to 150 kilograms. Navy Blue F and Jet Gray F colorways...

Australian energy company Invictus is hammering out a deal with Qatari outfit Al Mansour Holdings that could hand the Gulf investors half the company. The talks come after AMH dropped a 500 million dollar commitment back in August to get the Cabora Bassa oil and gas project moving in Zimbabwe's...

AfDB president Sidi Ould Tah dropped a four-point plan at the Africa Investment Forum Market Days in Rabat to speed up economic transformation across the continent. The bank chief told ministers and investors that Africa needs serious capital mobilization through fresh financing tools and better...

Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe scored the Best Transaction Bank award at the Euromoney shindig over in London, which is basically a big deal because those awards look at cash management, payments, trade finance, and fintech stuff across the globe. The bank beat out competitors through data analysis and...

Africa's power sector is getting absolutely wrecked by currency mismatches, with big shots at a panel before the Africa Investment Forum saying foreign-currency debt is turning into a nightmare for utilities and governments across the continent. AfDB director Wale Shonibare called out how...

Australian miner Prospect Resources just wrapped up offloading its Step Aside Lithium Project in Zimbabwe for 2.2 million bucks to a private outfit called Fatima Resources. The deal gets them 850k upfront with another 150k coming in six months, plus potential bonus cash up to 1.2 million if the...

Jersey-based Caledonia Mining just dropped a feasibility study showing their Bilboes Gold Project in Zimbabwe is sitting on 1.75 million ounces of proven and probable reserves, which translates to around 7 billion bucks at current gold rates. The project sits about 80 kilometers north of...

Zimbabwe School of Mines is working with the country's aviation authority to set up a program that teaches students how to fly drones for mineral surveys and then crunch the data for actual mining work. Training manager Martin January said the school is getting approved as an official training...

Universal Music's German division might finally get answers from the EU's highest court about whether Cloudflare can be blamed when pirates use its infrastructure. A German federal court kicked the question upstairs after years of legal fighting over a dead piracy site called DDL-Music that used...

Universal Music Group UK dropped Pause, which basically lets people grab single frames from music videos and turn them into prints. The platform scans through videos and locks each frame after someone buys it to keep things exclusive. Prices run anywhere from 65 quid for basic A3 size up to 495...

ASCAP grabbed Marc Zelanko as their new Chief of Staff after the exec spent over 20 years grinding through senior positions at Paramount Global. Elizabeth Matthews brought him on to help squeeze more cash and better efficiency for the performance rights org that reps around 1.1 million music...

TikTok brought on Ziad Ojakli as its new head of public policy for the Americas after Michael Beckerman bounced from the position he had held for over five years. Ojakli has experience working at Ford, SoftBank and Boeing, plus time in the George W. Bush administration. ByteDance CEO Shou Zi...

StubHub got slapped with a class action lawsuit after investor Daniel Salabaj accused the company of hiding cash flow problems before its IPO. The ticketing platform raised around $758 million when it went public but allegedly left out key details about operational changes that tanked its...

Amuse just hit 50,000 automated royalty advances through its Fast Forward platform and pushed out $10 million total to independent musicians since the service started. The Swedish company runs calculations across streaming data to figure out how much artists can grab upfront instead of waiting...

Epic Games dropped a trailer showing off Yuki's Revenge, which is basically an unreleased Kill Bill chapter that Tarantino never put out back when the movies dropped over 20 years ago. The short film hits Fortnite as part of a collab and also gets a limited theater run at select locations across...

Qualcomm dropped the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and it shares the same TSMC 3nm process as the Elite Gen 5 flagship but apparently gets cooked in gaming benchmarks. A tipster on Weibo says the regular Gen 5 has way less cache on the performance cores compared to last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite and that...

Blizzard just locked down the release window for World of Warcraft: Midnight and the eleventh expansion drops early next year. The game launches for subscribers looking to continue the Worldsoul Saga storyline that writer Chris Metzen cooked up after he came back to the company. Players get...

CD Projekt RED just dropped their quarterly earnings and confirmed Cyberpunk 2077 has moved 35 million units since launch. The studio managed to add 5 million sales over the past year despite the game being nearly five years old at this point. The company has 447 devs grinding on Witcher 4...