A US Black Hawk military helicopter over Kabul on August 15, 2021. AP Photo/Rahmat Gul A year ago this week, the final US troops left Afghanistan as the Taliban swept across the country. The Taliban’s swift victory and violence during the withdrawal lead many to call it a failure by President Joe Biden. Afghanistan was…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Frontier has released another instalment of its F1 Manager behind-the-scenes series, this time focussing on how its “cutting-edge motion capture technology has been used to recreate those dramatic moments during a race weekend”. The video also showcases how the team worked alongside the BWT Alpine F1 Team to capture a real F1 pit stop, which…
MultiVersus has knocked Elden Ring off the top spot of the month’s best-selling games. NPD Group reports (thanks, NME) that despite being free-to-play – albeit with in-game purchases – MultiVersus is the highest-grossing game of July 2022, due in part to its Founder Packs promotion. It may not sound like a particularly impressive feat but…
Image: Ray Mona / Library of Congress The decades-long search for the American version of Sailor Moon has finally come to an end. Ray Mona, a YouTuber who documents her efforts to find lost media (including the never-released Mean Girls game), has managed to unearth the pilot episode of the unaired, never-finished series that the…
In its five years as a standalone automaker, Polestar has placed into production two vehicles and announced the delivery schedule of four additional vehicles. The latest, the Polestar 6, is an electric roadster that’s due to hit the road in 2026. It’s an impressive pace for a new company. While some of that success can…
We’re going to need a bigger boat — maybe something like a cruise ship. Scientists recently discovered just how massive an ancient shark might’ve been. It is freaking staggering. The otodus megalodon — you know, the infamous meg you’ve likely heard of — was so large it could have snacked on orcas, colloquially known as…
Incumbent insurers have accelerated their use of mature AI deployments in the past year to meet changing customer expectations and better compete with insurtechs. Insider Intelligence details AI use cases within the insurance industry, and explores potential risks to this tech, in our AI in Insurance Report. Do you work in the Fintech industry? Get…
A Tui flight faced a 2.5 hour diversion because it had to pick up a crew member in another city. Nicolas Economou/Getty Images A Tui plane had to make a 650-mile diversion with its passengers to pick up a crew member. It stopped in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the opposite direction from its destination of…
Former Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers arrives to testify before the January 6 committee in Washington, DC on June 21, 2022. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Trump sought Arizona GOP House Speaker Rusty Bowers’s help to overturn the election. Bowers testified in front of the January 6 committee. He lost his primary for state senate to a…
Russian troops in self-propelled artillery vehicles during the Victory Day Parade at Moscow’s Red Square May 9, 2014. Sergei Karpukhin/REUTERS Ukraine’s foreign minister said Moscow’s poor battlefield performance reflected the quality of its arms. Kuleba spoke two days after President Vladimir Putin said Russian weaponry was years ahead of its competition. Ukraine has urged Southeast…