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Monthly Archives: September 2022
An Ukrainian soldier in the frontline city of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine April 28, 2022 Jorge Silva/Reuters/file photo A strategic occupied city in eastern Ukraine is on the brink of being retaken by Ukrainian troops, reports say. News of the advance in Lyman comes on the day Putin declared the annexation of the Donetsk region….
Comac C919. Shi Yuge/VCG via Getty Images China’s aviation regulator has finally certified the Comac C919 narrowbody airliner after 14 years of work. The narrowbody plane has had a long production due to technical issues and shipping delays. China hopes the C919 will make it less reliant on foreign-made technology like Boeing and Airbus. The…
A man covers his face as he reads information displayed on an electronic screen at a brokerage house in Shanghai May 17, 2010. REUTERS Chinese shares listed in Hong Kong cratered to an all-time low this week. The Hang Seng Index plunged 14% on Thursday to its cheapest value on record. China stocks could rebound…
The 19th National Congress of Communist Party of China was held in 2017. Simon Song/South China Morning Post via Getty Images The China Securities Regulatory Commission recently contacted multiple banks, including JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, according to the WSJ. The regulator advised against publishing politically sensitive research ahead of China’s key Communist Party summit next…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images and Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images House Democrats punted a vote on banning lawmakers from trading stocks until after the midterms. Now, Spanberger is lighting into Democratic leadership for producing a bill “designed to fail.” She’s also reiterating her call for…
In 2022, Tony Hawk is a household name, skateboarding is an olympic sport and it’s possible to master digital laser flips in any number of video games on TV. It wasn’t always like this, though. Early skate screen media consisted mostly of skeptical documentaries or whimsical California dreaming-style chronicles. Things changed when, in 1983, Stacy…
NASA and SpaceX have signed an agreement to study the possibility of using a Dragon spacecraft to lift the Hubble telescope to a higher orbit. The Hubble telescope’s orbit decays over time due to atmospheric drag, and reboosting it to a more stable one could add more years to its life. SpaceX proposed the idea…
Oil and gas companies regularly use flaring (that is, burning unwanted methane) to limit the amount of natural gas escaping into the atmosphere, but the practice might not be as kind to the planet as previously thought. Scientists at the University of Michigan, Stanford and elsewhere have discovered that flaring is much less effective than…
Dragon Age developer BioWare has shared a few new snippets from the upcoming and long-awaited Dreadwolf, in the form of a few fresh codex entries. These tidbits are not meant to tease any particular storyline from Dreadwolf, but are included in a blog post detailing how BioWare’s writing team works together to build Dragon Age’s…