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Samsung Galaxy S27 Edge Rumored for 2027 with Silicon Carbon Battery
Samsung's Galaxy S27 Edge is rumoured for 2027 with a 4,300mAh silicon-carbon battery. The S25 Edge had 3,900mAh.
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DeepSeek turns to Huawei for 160,000 AI chips as Nvidia stays locked out of China
DeepSeek plans 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a 1GW Inner Mongolia data centre. Training stays on Nvidia. Full timeline.
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Xiaomi Smart Band 11 launches with sleep HRV and a brighter screen
Xiaomi Smart Band 11 launched in China from KES 5,745 with sleep HRV, a 2,000-nit screen and 21-day battery.
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Galaxy Watch 7, Watch 8 and Watch Ultra get One UI 9 Watch beta as older models take security patches
Samsung is beta testing One UI 9 Watch on Galaxy Watch 7, 8 and Ultra in Korea and the US.
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iOS 27 adds iPhone Handoff, letting two iPhones share a single phone number
iOS 27 adds iPhone Handoff, sharing one number across two iPhones. Carriers must enable it, and none in Kenya have.
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Lenovo’s IdeaPad Vibe costs the same as a MacBook Neo and comes in seven colours
Lenovo's IdeaPad Vibe starts at $699.99 with OLED, seven colours and upgradeable memory. How it compares with the MacBook Neo.
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Uber is accepting Visa cards in Kenya again
Uber has started asking Kenyan riders to add Visa cards again, eight months after dropping Visa over payment processing costs.
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DStv is splitting sport and movies into separate packages, but only in South Africa
DStv adds standalone Sports and Movies & Series packages in South Africa from 17 September. Kenyan prices and package names…
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Airtel is giving 376 million subscribers in India a free year of Super Duolingo
Bharti Airtel and Duolingo announced a 12 month free Super Duolingo offer for 376 million Indian subscribers on 3 September.
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Anthropic is Paying Students $3,600 to run AI clubs, Apply Now!
Anthropic pays student ambassadors USD 3,600 to run campus AI clubs. Kenyans can apply, and applications close on 12 September.
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Nvidia’s RTX Spark PCs ship in October, and both configurations are the N1X
Nvidia says RTX Spark PCs ship in October in two N1X configurations, 6,144 or 5,120 GPU cores, and no prices
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Xiaomi’s first Xring tablet, the Pad 9 Pro Max, launches 7 September
The 13.3-inch Pad 9 Pro Max is Xiaomi's first Xring O3 tablet. It launches on 7 September in China only.
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Range Rover finally has an electric car, and it is years behind China
JLR's first electric Range Rover opens orders at $140,450, with a 118.5 kWh battery and 333 miles of EPA range.
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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra and says we are now in the AGI era
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra. President Greg Brockman says the AGI era has started.
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Xiaomi Sky Nomad N70 Pro, N70 Max and N90 Max launch 7 September from KES 5 million
Three new Xiaomi SUVs do up to 505 kilometres on battery, then a petrol generator takes over for another thousand.
