Want to kick back and relax as someone rustles up a virtual feast just for you, with all of the juicy scrunches, scrapes and snips that this might entail (peeling potatoes, sharpening knives, firing up the hob, chomping on a bit of leftover veg), while you pour yourself a nice (albeit also virtual) glass of…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
The 4v1 monster-hunting madness of Evolve has been given a new lease of life since 2K brought peer-to-peer servers and matchmaking back. Evolve is the follow-up to Turtle Rock Studios’ Left 4 Dead. It saw the studio pivot from pitting players against zombie hordes, to tracking and hunting a player-controller monster instead. Were some people…
Ubisoft has released a free update for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, adding a new roguelite mode to the Viking adventure. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Forgotten Saga looks like a fairly typical roguelite expansion, casting you as Odin to fight through a procedurally generated world. Set in Niflheim, you’ll return to the beginning of the realm after each…
An orca in the Pacific Northwest. Monika Wieland Shields/Shutterstock A striking video showed orcas killing a great white shark by ripping out its liver. But such attacks are quite common, logical, and had been seen several times before, per an expert. Orcas target fatty organs because they get the most nutrients for the least effort,…
Travelers wait at Newark Liberty International Airport. Jeenah Moon / Stringer / Getty US fliers may be able to request full-cash refund if their flight is canceled, under a new bill. The proposal, titled Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations, is in response to travel chaos. Many airlines currently offer to rebook delayed customers or provide…
Katie Oelker and her husband. Courtesy Katie Oelker We considered a 529 plan or UTMA to save money for our daughters’ future. However, we aren’t sure they’ll pursue higher education, so we didn’t use a 529 plan. We also didn’t think an UTMA was the right fit, so we chose a brokerage account instead. Compare…
Aapsky/Getty Images Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has redirected energy deliveries around the world, and one result has been that the US is now sending more gas to Europe by boat than Russia is by pipeline, ICIS data shows, according to the Wall Street Journal. Since 1967, Gazprom’s pipelines in West Siberia and the Yamal peninsula…
The latest Pokémon Presents is livestreaming at 9AM ET today, promising updates on Pokémon apps and games “including Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet,” The Pokémon Company said. It didn’t add more details, but the last Pokémon Presents revealed the Scarlet and Violet release windows, among other news. The company also showed off some visuals from…
In the future, you may come across a lot more two-wheeled Porsches on the streets. The luxury automaker has launched two new joint ventures with Dutch company Ponooc Investment B.V., and they’re both all about electric bikes. Porsche eBike Performance GmbH is based in Ottobrunn near Munich and will develop components, including motors and batteries….
An unknown actor has drained over 8,000 internet-connected wallets in an ongoing attack on the Solana blockchain ecosystem. According to Blockchain auditor OtterSec, the attacks were still ongoing when it posted an update in the evening of August 2nd and that they had affected multiple wallets, including Phantom, Slope, Solflare and TrustWallet, across a wide…