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  1. Munyaradzi Mafaro

    EasyWill goes live in the UAE, wills are now just a click away

    EasyWill just dropped in the UAE as the country's first completely online system for writing and registering legally binding wills without ever touching a lawyer's office. The platform runs on AI trained specifically on UAE federal inheritance laws and handles everything from drafting to...
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    Milestone taps AI for video edge, cities get smarter fast

    Milestone Systems is dropping a generative AI plugin for its XProtect video software that was built with NVIDIA to help security operators deal with alarm spam. The tech automatically writes incident summaries and validates events to cut down false positives, which could slash operator fatigue...
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    Kingston fires up Gen 5 SSDs, Middle East gets faster

    Kingston Technology is pushing Gen 5 NVMe SSDs into the Middle East as cloud platforms and AI workloads keep hammering infrastructure across the region. The DC3000ME and FURY Renegade G5 drives hit 14,000 megabytes per second with high IOPS, which helps enterprises train models quicker and run...
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    Dubai Chambers links with e& UAE, startups get signal boost

    Dubai Chambers and e& UAE just locked in a partnership to hook up small businesses and startups with custom telecom packages that actually make sense for their operations. The deal focuses on getting smaller companies access to communication infrastructure without the usual corporate pricing...
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    Safaricom fronts tea cash fix, farmers get paid early

    Safaricom rolled out a cash advance program through its DigiFarm platform that lets tea farmers grab money before factory payments drop. The setup pairs with Access Bank and local tea operations to front smallholders some cash based on what they already delivered, with automatic payback when the...
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    Chad courts US tech ties, AI makes the pitch shine

    Chad's telecom minister, Dr. Boukar Michel, sat down with US Business Commissioner William Flens and embassy official Dr. Arthur James Bell to talk about getting American tech companies into the country's digital buildout. The Americans pointed out that basically nobody from the States is doing...
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    Ivory Coast maps digital leap, satellites in the mix

    Côte d'Ivoire pitched its digital expansion plans at the Africa Investment Forum in Rabat, with Kalil Ibrahim Konaté laying out targets to push the tech sector's GDP slice from current levels up to 8 percent within a few years and eventually hit double digits after that. The country is dumping...
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    CAMTEL adds 127 grads, fiber game gets fresh legs

    CAMTEL just onboarded 127 fresh graduates through their youth employment scheme after putting them through a two-week bootcamp covering telecom basics and field work. The recruits came from 270 applicants across Cameroonian universities and got trained on fiber optic splicing, copper...
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    Minecube 360 Ultra lands, flexes screens, and cooling

    Thermaltake rolled out the MINECUBE 360 Ultra AIO cooler with four little TFT screens wrapped around the pump block. Each display runs at 720 by 720 resolution and can show separate content or one big wraparound image with system temps and custom graphics visible from basically any angle inside...
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    SK Hynix cranks GDDR7 to 48 Gb-s, speed gets serious

    SK Hynix is dropping GDDR7 memory that hits 48 gigabits per second per pin at the 2026 ISSCC conference, which absolutely demolishes the earlier guesses that topped out around 32 to 37 gigabits. The 24-gigabit-density chips pump out 192 gigabytes per second of bandwidth per chip, leaving the...
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    Spring makes Asetek move, cooling crown slips away

    Spring Electronics out of China is trying to buy up every single share of Asetek through a tender offer worth around 547 million Danish kroner. The cooling company behind a ton of AIO liquid coolers got hit hard after their closed-loop patent expired back in May, which basically opened the...
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    POCO F8 Ultra drops with subwoofer, bass hits hard

    Xiaomi just dropped the POCO F8 Ultra with a literal subwoofer stuck on the back of a phone because apparently, regular speakers are for peasants. The device runs on Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen-5 silicon and packs a massive 6.9-inch AMOLED screen that cranks out 3500 nits of brightness at 120 Hz...
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    Titan Army drops 320 Hz mini-LED beast, size still slays

    Titan Army dropped a 24.5-inch gaming screen called the P245MS+ that packs quantum-dot mini-LED tech with over a thousand dimming zones and HDR1000 brightness. The monitor hits 320 Hz refresh rates and clocks a 1 ms response time while running WQHD resolution on a FAST IPS panel. Adaptive Sync...
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    ADIFF brings global Black cinema flair, NYC gets schooled

    The 33rd African Diaspora International Film Festival is dropping over 70 movies from 30-plus countries across NYC venues like Columbia University and Cinema Village. They're running the whole thing from late November through mid-December, with both physical screenings and a virtual component...
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    Task Systems bags Microsoft honor, Nigeria levels up

    Task Systems just grabbed Microsoft's Partner of the Year award at the Ignite Conference happening in San Francisco. The Nigerian tech company has been around since 1989, and CEO Gozy Ijogun showed up to collect the trophy for their whole squad. She gave shoutouts to basically everyone they work...
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    Afrobeats takes center stage, Nigeria’s rhythm rules

    Popcentral just launched the second version of its Nigerian music history project with a month-long showcase running through the whole of next month. The exhibition brings together around 30 artists working across painting, sculpture, digital media, and textiles to visualize how Afrobeats went...
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    Worthy Park takes rum crown again, storm support pours in

    Worthy Park Estate just snagged the IWSC Rum Producer of the Year award for the second time after first winning back in 2023. The Jamaican distillery also racked up a bunch of individual medals for specific bottles like the 109, Overproof, and 12-Year-Old expressions. Export Sales Manager Alex...
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    Clarendon sugar comeback begins, Tropical Sugar breaks ground

    Clarendon gets ready for sugar production to restart after years of decline because Tropical Sugar Company Limited starts building a massive factory and power plant. Owner Noel McLean says the facility will pump out multiple grades of sugar and renewable energy while making various products that...
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    NDP sweeps to power in St Vincent, Friday ends Gonsalves' era

    The opposition New Democratic Party just ended 24 years of Unity Labour Party rule after grabbing 11 seats and kicking Ralph Gonsalves out of the top job. Godwin Friday becomes the seventh prime minister since independence and takes over from one of the longest serving Caribbean leaders, who...
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    Telethon raises $65M for Jamaica, stars and fans unite for relief

    Jamaica pulled in over 65 million bucks from a telethon and virtual concert that had reggae stars, dancehall artists and gospel singers performing to help people wrecked by Hurricane Melissa. The broadcast hit national TV and social media worldwide with corporate backers Red Stripe and Digicel...
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