Enlarge / Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to modelllllllll! (credit: FMWC) If you watched ESPN2 during its stint last weekend as “ESPN8: The Ocho,” you may have seen some odd, meme-friendly competitions, including corgi racing, precision paper airplane tossing, and slippery stair climbing. Or you might have seen “Excel Esports: All-Star Battle,” a tournament in…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Health information publishing giant WebMD has announced that it’s acquiring Jim.fr, a French-language medical news and information website aimed at healthcare professionals (HCPs). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1979 as the Journal International de Médecine (JIM) by a young hospital intern called Dr. Gilles Haroche, Paris-based Jim.fr collates and presents all…
“Hello, I’m Kong, or Click, the Hardcore Truth-Seeker.” The aptly-titled “Lunch” episode of Netflix‘s comic-inspired horror anthology series, School Tales the Series, starts with a close-up of a student’s face, mid-livestream from his school’s cafeteria while adoring comments rain in. Kong (Tonhon Tantivejakul), it turns out, is a social media influencer who specialises in exposing…
Ethereum is changing. The world’s most popular blockchain platform is about to undergo a radical change that will make it greener, and pave the way for many optimizations. It’s immensely important for the nascent spaces of decentralized finance and NFTs; on the flip side, its immediate effects on Ethereum’s speed, scalability and fees are often…
There’s a bloody lot going on at present. Luckily, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have a good joke about butt cheeks. Released on Audible at the beginning of October 2020 during England’s second lockdown, French and Saunders: Titting About was part of a swathe of UK comedy releases for Amazon’s audiobook app including Steve Coogan’s…
Discord, the platform for chatting with users across different servers about games and other topics, is rolling out a cheaper plan of its ‘Nitro‘ subscription service for UK users on the desktop later today (August 18), called ‘Nitro Basic’. Priced at $2.49 / £2.99 a month to start with, Discord told TechRadar it had received…
Google has patched a high-severity vulnerability for the desktop version of its Chrome browser. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-2856, is being actively exploited in the wild, the company says, which is why it’s paramount that users patch their endpoints immediately. As is common, Google doesn’t want to say much about the flaw, until the majority…
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Spencer Platt/Getty Images US stock futures edged up Thursday, as investors assessed Federal Reserve minutes for clues to the path of interest-rate hikes. The dollar gained to near three-week highs as the Fed appeared to commit to more hikes. In Asia, stocks were downbeat…
Russian soldiers clear an area in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on July 13, 2022. The soldier in this picture is not Pavel Filatyev. Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images A Russian paratrooper who fought in Ukraine wrote a 141-page memoir about his time there. Pavel Filatyev described how soldiers were so depleted that they…
Warren Buffett tweeted a picture of himself photoshopped to look like “Breaking Bad” protagonist Walter White in 2013. @warrenbuffett Warren Buffett received a nod in the series finale of “Better Call Saul” this week. Jimmy McGill imagined becoming a billionaire by going back in time to buy Berkshire stock in 1965. Berkshire’s Class A shares…