Lion Islet, part of Kinmen County, one of Taiwan’s offshore islands, is seen in front of the Chinese city of Xiamen, April 20, 2018. Carl Court/Getty Images China has vowed to bring Taiwan under Beijing’s control and to do so by force is necessary. That means the Chinese military has likely drawn up plans for…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
The Lichterfelde gas-fired power plant in Berlin, Germany. Michael Sohn / AP European gas prices dipped for the second consecutive day ahead of a potential US production boost. Benchmark futures dropped as much as 4.6%, according to Bloomberg data. Russia’s gas shutoffs to Europe have pushed prices higher over recent months. European natural gas prices…
Brendan McDermid/Reuters Wall Street and the Fed are at an impasse, and the solution will almost surely hurt investors. Stocks recently surged on hopes that the central bank will start cutting rates in 2023. But Fed officials have clarified that the hiking cycle is far from over. Wall Street and the Federal Reserve are once…
A man carrying a fan in Seville, Spain, on July 25, 2022. Eduardo Briones/Europa Press via Getty Images Spain is putting temperature limits on public air conditioning this summer. It won’t be able to go below 81F. The measure is scheduled to go into effect next week and will run until November 2023. Spain is…
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Stocks were mixed Thursday as investors took in jobs data and new earnings reports. The Bank of England made its largest interest rate hike in 27 years, hiking by 50 basis points. European nations are set to pay 10 times the usual amount to fill gas stockpiles ahead of winter. US stocks…
There had been many previous attempts to develop cameras that mimic the eyes of insects, fish and other living creatures. However, development of artificial vision systems that can see both underwater and on land has apparently been pretty limited. Further, biomimetic cameras are usually restricted by their 180-degree field-of-view. Now, a team of scientists from…
Canon launched the EOS R7 and R10 APS-C RF-S mount cameras earlier this year, finally introducing lens compatibility between crop-sensor and full-frame mirrorless cameras. That puts the future of its current APS-C EOS-M line in doubt, however. Today’s review is all about the higher-end $1,500, 32-megapixel EOS R7. At that price, it goes up against…
Just five years ago, Nintendo was at a crossroads. The Wii U was languishing well in third place in the console wars and, after considerable pressure, the company was making its first tentative steps into mobile gaming with Miitomo and Super Mario Run. Fast-forward to today: The Switch is likely on the way to becoming…
Arclight Rumble wasn’t going to be the only upcoming Warcraft mobile game, according to a report. Bloombergsources claim Blizzard and NetEase have canceled a World of Warcraft spinoff mobile title that had been in development for three years. Nicknamed Neptune, it would have been a massively multiplayer game set in a different era of the…
Tencent is trying to become Ubisoft’s single-largest shareholder – overtaking that of the company’s founding Guillemot family. That’s according to a new Reuters report, which cites a number of sources close to the company with knowledge of ongoing discussions. Tencent already owns around five percent of Ubisoft (alongside chunks of dozens of other video game…