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GameBench is a name that should be familiar to gamers, game developers, journalists, content creators, and anyone who wants to monitor a device’s performance metrics while gaming. The company offers GameBench Pro, which is targeted at this audience, but it costs thousands of dollars. To make this performance data more accessible, GameBench has announced a free app called GameBench FPS Monitor. We had exclusive pre-release access to this app, which is now available to all Android users through the Google Play Store, provided their device runs Android 11 or later. As the name suggests, the GameBench FPS Monitor app lets…

Through collaboration and strategic engagement, the forum works to strengthen trusted critical infrastructure, improve interoperability, and enable digital transformation worldwide. MTN Digital Infrastructure,  the parent company of Bayobab,  announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Mazen Mroué, has been appointed to the Board of the Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF), a global network of senior connectivity leaders working to shape the future of the digital infrastructure and telecommunications ecosystem. The appointment reflects the growing role of African-led infrastructure players in global industry dialogue and reinforces Bayobab’s commitment to advancing inclusive, innovative, and responsible connectivity across the regions it serves and beyond. The…

Back in September of last year, Google launched an experimental Windows app with AI Mode built-in. Now, this has been made available to everyone across the globe, but only in English for now. Undoubtedly more languages are going to be supported soon. The Google app for Windows lets you use Alt+Space as a shortcut to bring it up in a small window and ask it anything. That shortcut will be very familiar to you if you’re a Mac user, of course, since it’s what brings up Spotlight search. Google’s app obviously provides a Google search box, but it’s so much…

And it turns out that well-designed, value-forward consent experiences routinely outperform initial estimates.Touchpoints for privacy-led UX often include consent management platforms, terms and conditions, privacy policies, data subject access request (DSAR) tools, and, increasingly, AI data use disclosures. This report examines how data transparency builds trust with customers; how this, in turn, can support business performance; and how organizations can maintain this trust even as AI systems add complexity to consent processes. Key findings include the following: Privacy is evolving from a one-time consent transaction into an ongoing data relationship. Rather than asking users for broad permissions up front, leading…

The initiative forms part of BENEFIT’s broader efforts to equip Bahraini talent with practical, industry-relevant capabilities and to support the evolving demands of the financial services and digital innovation landscape. BENEFIT,  the Kingdom’s innovator and leading company in Fintech and electronic financial transactions service, has announced the successful completion of the second cohort of its six-month “Fintech Drivers” Program. The initiative forms part of BENEFIT’s broader efforts to equip Bahraini talent with practical, industry-relevant capabilities and to support the evolving demands of the financial services and digital innovation landscape. The Fintech Drivers Program reflects BENEFIT’s efforts to bring academic development…

Oppo is launching the Pad 5 Pro and the Pad Mini on April 21 alongside the Find X9 Ultra and the Find X9s Pro. Now, the brand has revealed more details about the upcoming tablets. The Pad 5 Pro will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC. It has a 13.2-inch 3.4K LCD screen with 144Hz refresh rate and 1,000-nit peak brightness, and a 13,380 mAh battery with support for 67W wired charging. Oppo Pad 5 Pro official promotional images This tablet will be 5.94mm thick and will weigh 672g. It will have support…

Cloudflare aims to address infrastructure, compute, deployment and security so developers can focus on building the next generation of applications. Cloudflare, Inc.,  the leading connectivity cloud company, is expanding its Agent Cloud with new features to help developers build, deploy and scale agents. This suite of infrastructure, security, and developer tools is designed to move AI agents from experimental demos on local laptops to robust, production-grade workloads running across Cloudflare’s global network. While the first generation of AI focused on chatbots, the industry is shifting toward coding agents and autonomous tools that read context, reason, and take multi-step actions. However,…

Image Credits: CozewareThere’s a very specific moment every year when you realize your home isn’t working with you—it’s working against you.It’s not dramatic. It’s subtle.A room that’s always two degrees too warm. A corner that never quite heats up in winter. A home office that turns into a sauna by noon.And like most people, you adjust. You move. You compromise.Until you don’t.Because at some point, comfort stops feeling like a luxury and starts feeling like infrastructure.That’s exactly where systems like Cozeware’s mini split lineup come in—not as a reactive fix, but as a strategic home investment.Image Credits: CozewareWhy Mini Splits…

Last week, Samsung raised prices for its 512GB and 1TB variants of the Z Fold7 sold in the US, and it has now done the same for a bunch of smartphones and tablets across its official online store. The affected smartphones include the 512GB versions of the Galaxy Z Flip7 and S25 Edge, as well as the 256GB version of the Galaxy S25 FE. The Z Flip7 is now $80 more expensive, as is the S25 Edge. Galaxy S25 FE (256GB) is $40 costlier than before. A large number of Galaxy Tab devices were also affected by the price increase.…

“The interpretation of genetic data is not straightforward,” Chikhi says. “We always have to make assumptions. Nobody takes data and magically comes up with a solution.”  Embracing the uncertainty  Most of the half-dozen population geneticists I spoke with praised Chikhi and Tournebize’s ingenuity and appreciated the spirit of their critique. “Their paper forces us to think more critically about the model we use for inference and consider alternatives,” says Aaron Ragsdale, a population geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His own work likewise suggests that the earliest Homo sapiens populations in Africa were probably structured—and that this is the likely…