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Intel's new iGPU actually doesn't suck for once. The company launched its Arc B390 integrated graphics, based on the Xe3 architecture, claiming it can trade blows with a discrete laptop GPU. In their benchmarks, it showed about ten percent better average performance than Nvidia's mobile RTX...

Intel finally dropped its next-gen chips after months of hype. The company launched its Core Ultra Series 3 processors, codenamed Panther Lake, marking its first product on the advanced 18A manufacturing node. These chips are built with a multi-tile design, packing new performance cores...

Dell caved to user backlash and revived the XPS name. The company is bringing back its XPS laptop line with two new models for this year, the XPS 16 and XPS 14, and teased a future XPS 13. This reverses last year's decision to kill the XPS branding for a simpler naming scheme that apparently...

APC is strong-arming members into digital sign-ups. The party in Ekiti State is pushing people to join a nationwide electronic registration drive, framing it as a test of loyalty. The state coordinator, a commissioner named Adesola Adedayo, called the program pivotal for future wins. He told...

Fuel importers are spreading fake news to jack up gas prices. The Dangote refinery just called out a bogus report claiming it was shutting down for maintenance, saying the story is a deliberate lie pushed by importers scared of competition. They warned that without their domestic refining, pump...

AMD just whipped out a stupidly high core count CPU to feed its AI rigs. The CEO showed off a new EPYC server chip called Venice, which is meant to be the brains for their upcoming Helios AI server racks packed with Instinct MI455X graphics cards. Each compute node would use one of these monster...

ASUS ROG just dropped a case with a built-in TV for your PC. They showed two new things this year, a fancy case called the Cronox and a daisy-chain fan named the Eurus GR120 ARGB. The Cronox is their first case with a wraparound curved glass panel. It has a secondary screen on the front, which...

ASUS made a cooler with fewer wires because cable management is painful. They showed the ROG Strix LC IV all-in-one liquid CPU coolers this year. The big deal is a built-in module on the pump unit. It hooks up to certain ASUS motherboards with one plug. That single connection runs the pump, the...

ASUS is at it again with another vaporware router for nerds to salivate over. The company showed a concept device called the ROG NeoCore, a potential future router built for the Wi-Fi 8 standard, at a tech expo this year. This thing is not a real product you can buy. ASUS made that painfully...

AMD dropped another X3D chip, claiming it is the fastest for games. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D replaces the older model, boasting a peak boost clock of 5.6 GHz, which is four hundred megahertz quicker. It keeps the same basic design as before, with eight cores, sixteen threads, and a thermal rating of...

NVIDIA's DLSS update is basically just AI generating most of your game now. The new DLSS 4.5 version pushes frame generation way further, letting the tech create up to five AI frames for every single real one your graphics card renders. This six-times multi-frame generation mode is the big...

ASUS just announced another monitor for people who think frames win games. The ROG Strix XG27AQNGV is a 360Hz screen targeting the esports crowd, and it will cost a solid 749.90 Euros when it launches in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This 27-inch display uses a QHD panel with a...

MSI finally dropped a Lightning card after a seven-year hiatus, and of course, it's a ludicrously limited run. The company just showed off the RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z, their new top-tier GPU built for insane overclocking. This thing is not for your average gamer. They are only making 1,300 of...

Intel's newest laptop chips are another swing at claiming the AI crown. The company launched its Core Ultra Series 300 mobile processors, built on a fresh platform called Panther Lake, using its 18A manufacturing tech. They are calling this their first AI PC platform on this node and their...

Acer just announced a whole stack of monitors, because why settle for one niche? Leading the pack is the Predator XB273U F6, a twenty-seven-inch screen made for esports with a wild five hundred hertz refresh rate at 1440p. It even has a special mode that drops the resolution to 720p to hit one...

AMD has just released a couple more chips to complete its lineup. They added two new Strix Halo APUs called the Ryzen AI Max Plus 388 and 392. These essentially slot in between the existing models by enhancing the integrated graphics while leaving the CPU part largely unchanged. Both chips keep...

NVIDIA's latest play is fixing motion blur instead of chasing higher numbers. They announced G-SYNC Pulsar, a new monitor tech aimed at competitive gamers. The whole idea is to make fast motion look clearer by changing how the screen's backlight works. Normally, an LCD screen refreshes its...

Talk about a cop who decided to become his own best customer. Knowledge Maphosa, a thirty-two-year-old police officer in Gwanda, got busted for running a weed spot out of his room at the actual police station. Detectives received a tip that the lawman was storing illegal stuff in his quarters...

Another day, another government workshop in a hotel conference room. Owen Ncube, the Midlands province minister, kicked off a strategic planning review in Bulawayo. Officials from the President's office and other provincial stakeholders were there. Ncube told the room that the province should...

Liberation hero's widow dies abroad, far from home. Nokuthula Bokwe was seventy eight years old when she died in her sleep at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her daughter, Noluthando Fikelephi Bokwe, confirmed the death and said the family is handling the loss of their...