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Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup — the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and today’s Steam Frame — are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld? Valve isn’t saying so yet. The company is figuring out “how and when we can deliver something like that,” Valve designer Pierre-Loup Griffais now tells IGN.“We also don’t want more performance to come at a significant cost to power efficiency and battery life,” Griffais told me in 2023, saying he wanted to see a “leap” instead — but suggesting that leap might not be physically possible for…

Thousands of olive ridley turtles came to La Escobilla beach in Oaxaca, Mexico, to lay their eggs within 48 hours, according to sanctuary officials. The natural phenomenon is known as “la arribada”, meaning “the arrival”, and sees hundreds of thousands of the amphibians swim ashore in southern Mexico. This is the sixth wave of the creatures in the nesting season, which started in March.

No side will relish coming up against Calvert-Lewin and this aggressive Leeds outfit at Elland Road this season. In fact, only Arsenal (52), Manchester City (50), Manchester United (45) and Bournemouth (37) have won more Premier League points in 2026 than Leeds United (35), with the Whites suffering just a single defeat across their past 13 league matches.Yet Newcastle’s implosion was remarkable as a young team were bullied and outfought.Newcastle had previously made a good start under head coach Matthias Jaissle, following so much change in the summer, and were unbeaten in their opening five games in all competitions before…

The Apple TV series starring Matthew Rhys, Jeff Hiller and Kate O’Flynn has been awarded Outstanding Comedy Series at the 2026 Emmy Awards The cursed island town in Widow’s Bay has summoned all kinds of supernatural entities, much to the dismay of its residents. Now, it has lured an Emmy Award into its grasp, too. The Apple TV series has been awarded Outstanding Comedy Series at the 2026 Emmy Awards. See the 2026 Emmys complete winners list. Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey presented the award, after riffing about if they may or may not be half-brothers. In accepting the Emmy,…

 WALE OSOFISAN writes that people affected by crisis should not depend solely on external organisations for basic public services  I have spent much of my career working in places where the public systems we take for granted elsewhere are under enormous pressure. That experience has convinced me of something that should be obvious but often gets lost in development financing: if we want development to last, we have to invest in the systems that sustain it.  This is particularly important for philanthropy. Philanthropic capital can fund innovation, take risks and support things that governments may not yet have the resources…

For families across Northern Nigeria, kidnapping no longer ends with the snatching of a loved one. It begins another desperate journey. Once an individual is taken into the forest, the family is forced into a parallel economy of negotiation, borrowing, selling property, mobilising relatives, seeking community assistance and, in some cases, supplying abductors with motorcycles, food, fuel, recharge cards and other commodities. For the kidnappers, the victim becomes an asset. For the family, everything that can be converted into cash becomes a possible price for survival. From Kebbi to Zamfara, Kwara, Sokoto, Borno, Kaduna and other parts of the North,…

Courts and Democratic-led states mount legal challenges against Trump administration visa and green card limits.Published On 15 Sep 202615 Sep 2026US President Donald Trump’s administration has suffered two setbacks to its immigration agenda as a federal judge halted proposed visa caps and dozens of Democratic-led states launched legal challenges against broader residency restrictions.A US federal judge on Monday blocked the administration from imposing fixed time limits on how long foreign students and journalists can remain in the country without applying for extensions. At the same time, a broad coalition of states filed suit to stop a separate federal regulation that…

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 14: Rhea Seehorn accepts the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Award for “Pluribus” onstage during the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 14, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chloe Kern/WireImage)WireImageRhea Seehorn’s first Emmy win is personal. It is also very good business for Apple.Seehorn won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Monday night at the 78th Annual Emmy Awards for her powerhouse performance in Apple TV+’s Pluribus, transforming what had been one of television’s most conspicuous awards-season omissions into one of the evening’s biggest victories.For Seehorn, who…

Witam, Victoria from Techpoint here, Here’s what I’ve got for you today: Cassava backs $1B Egypt AI data centre Côte d’Ivoire to get its first state data centre Uber says UberX drivers won’t lose jobs in SA NCC sounds alarm over masked calls Cassava backs $1B Egypt AI data centre MTN’s Dabengwa Data Centre Cassava Technologies, founded by Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, is joining Vodafone Business and Egypt’s Elsewedy Electric to build a major data-centre operation in Egypt. The joint venture, announced last week, will start with 20MW of capacity and could eventually scale to 200MW. The full project is…

The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, has identified tax reforms and economic growth as critical to expanding domestic resources for financing healthcare in Nigeria. Mr Pate made the observation on Monday in Abuja during a fireside chat at the Health Sector Reform Coalition (HSRC)/Nigeria Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Civil Society Organisations-Media Mid-Year Review of Nigeria’s Health Sector Reforms. The event brought together government representatives, civil society organisations, development partners and the media to review progress on health-sector reforms and efforts to improve health outcomes in Nigeria. The fireside chat was moderated by Moji Makanjuola, a veteran…