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Bamburi Cement Wins Three Honours at Road Safety Awards 2026
Bamburi Cement Plc has won three awards at the Kenya Road Safety Excellence Awards 2026, organised by the Automobile Association of Kenya (AA Kenya) i...
This Switch 2 sequel accessory was a few millimeters away from being good
The stick and face buttons are too close for comfort. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge The Crkd Nitro Deck was a saving grace for the original Nintendo Switch. The slide-on $59.99 accessory brought Hall effect sticks to drift-plagued consoles - no need to open up your Joy-Con for a complicated ...
Zen Browser is the Arc replacement I was looking for
Launcher-like pinned tabs, pop-over glance view, and more make Zen my go to browser. | Image: Zen Browser I know many of you are mourning the loss of the Arc browser, and I get it. It felt like the first app in a long time to really offer a new approach to browser design . Atlassian bought the compa...
A YouTuber dissected an iPhone Duo and thinks he found the cause of crackgate
Social media and the iPhone Duo subreddit are filled with reports of Apple's foldable failing quickly and in spectacular fashion. Some users report having the phone for only a few hours before the hinge seems to catch on something, then audibly crack and break the screen . Tellingly, the cracks all ...
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View AllThis Switch 2 sequel accessory was a few millimeters away from being good
The stick and face buttons are too close for comfort. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge The Crkd Nitro Deck was a saving grace for the original Nintendo Switch. The slide-on $59.99 accessory brought Hall effect sticks to drift-plagued consoles - no need to open up your Joy-Con for a complicated ...
Zen Browser is the Arc replacement I was looking for
Launcher-like pinned tabs, pop-over glance view, and more make Zen my go to browser. | Image: Zen Browser I know many of you are mourning the loss of the Arc browser, and I get it. It felt like the first app in a long time to really offer a new approach to browser design . Atlassian bought the compa...
A YouTuber dissected an iPhone Duo and thinks he found the cause of crackgate
Social media and the iPhone Duo subreddit are filled with reports of Apple's foldable failing quickly and in spectacular fashion. Some users report having the phone for only a few hours before the hinge seems to catch on something, then audibly crack and break the screen . Tellingly, the cracks all ...
Scott Walker’s The Drift will get under your skin
In my mind, Spooky Season music comes in two distinct flavors. There are the fun, occasionally goofy songs like "The Monster Mash" and John Carpenter's "Halloween Theme." Then there is the genuinely terrifying: Throbbing Gristle , The Body , or Scott Walker's The Drift . This 2006 album from the sin...
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View AllBamburi Cement Wins Three Honours at Road Safety Awards 2026
Bamburi Cement Plc has won three awards at the Kenya Road Safety Excellence Awards 2026, organised by the Automobile Association of Kenya (AA Kenya) i...
Kenya sends locally made products to Rwanda for EAC trade fair
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 25 – Kenya has dispatched locally made products from micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to Rwanda ahead of the 26th East African Community MSME Trade Fair, scheduled for October 30 to November 8. The products were flagged off by Principal Secretary for MSME Development S...
Devki plans multi-billion-shilling cement plant in Nyeri
NYERI, Kenya, Oct 22 – Manufacturing firm Devki Group plans to build a multi-billion-shilling cement plant in Karicheni, Kieni Constituency, Nyeri County, in a move expected to create jobs and lower construction costs in the Mt Kenya region. The plant is expected to employ hundreds of workers and re...
How Northern Kenya is building a circular economy through sustainable tourism
SAMBURU, Kenya, Oct 24 – In the rugged landscape of Northern Kenya, where prolonged droughts strain communities and wildlife compete for increasingly scarce water, the survival of an orphaned elephant is becoming part of a much bigger economic story. At Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, milk purchase...
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The Canal+ Strategy Taking Shape After Showmax
The French media group Canal+ ended 2025 with 42.3 million subscribers worldwide, a figure that tells two different stories depending on where you look. Strip out the 14.4 million subscribers attached to MultiChoice, and the Canal+ base rises to 28.0 million, up from 26.9 million the year before. Th...
Southern Africa Starts Lowering Mobile Roaming Costs Under SADC One Network Area
In the past, crossing a border in Southern Africa meant an immediate jolt to a mobile phone bill. A short call, a few photos uploaded, a map opened in a hurry. The meter would spin. Now several countries in the Southern African Development Community are trying to dismantle that friction. Botswana, L...
Telecom AI Meets Mobile Money in Safaricom–Indosat Deal
The Safaricom–Indosat partnership brings together two operators that arrived at the digital economy from different directions. Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) operates one of Indonesia’s largest mobile networks, with a customer base of 98.5 million as of early 2026. Its recent strategy has revolved ...
Iladho Galgallo Returns to Marsabit to Encourage Girls in STEM Through Safaricom Mentorship
The road to Marsabit tests a lot of drivers thanks to how long it takes to reach there. It’s dusty, with trucks moving slowly on sections without asphalt. School-going students must start their commute before the first bell. Iladho Galgallo went back to her alma mater, Moi Girls’ High Sc...
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In defense of hip-hop | Roland Fryer
Hip-hop often gets blamed for its controversial lyrics. What if there was a way to actually measure its impact on people's lives? Analyzing 40 years' worth of radio station data and lyrics from rappers like Tupac, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar, economist Roland Fryer puts one of culture's most n...
The language you're fluent in — but forgot how to hear | Louis VI
What if the calm you feel when you hear birdsong isn't a coincidence, but ancient evolutionary wiring ... a signal that once meant safety? Musical ecologist and rapper Louis VI says humans are hardwired to nature's sonic language, but modern life has drowned it out. He explores how we can tap back i...
Why can't we better prepare for extreme weather? | Catherine Nakalembe
Thanks to advanced technology, we can now see droughts and crop failures months before they hit. So why are millions of people still going hungry? TED Fellow Catherine Nakalembe, director of the NASA Harvest program in Africa, exposes the blind spots that keep life-saving climate intelligence from r...
Budget Paradise
Filmed and set in Oakland, Budget Paradise follows Chester, a Black, nonbinary painter as they search for space and permission to exist within their hometown. Written…