A waiter serves dessert to a table of men listening to Chinese millionaire Chen Guangbiao during a lunch he sponsored for hundreds of needy New Yorkers at Loeb Boathouse in New York’s Central Park June 25, 2014. Reuters White-collar workers fared much better than blue-collar employees during the coronavirus recession. Several signs suggest the opposite…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The medical debt load in the US currently totals around $195 billion, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images America’s medical debt problem has parallels to the student debt crisis, experts told Insider. Both are financially debilitating, putting people at risk of not being able to afford rent and food. The Biden Administration…
Taylor Rains/Insider Air New Zealand announced a unique new bunk bed product for economy passengers in June, known as Skynest. The six-bed sleeping pod will offer travelers a privacy curtain, USB ports, and bed linens. I tried the one-of-a-kind product in Auckland and loved the cozy bed. Here’s a closer look. Air New Zealand is…
Salvators Quad at St Andrews University in Fife, Scotland. Graham Barclay/Getty Images St Andrews University pipped Oxford and Cambridge for the first time in a Guardian ranking. Prince William met Kate Middleton while both were studying there. Cambridge came in at second place and Oxford was the third in the Guardian University Guide. The university…
I had no idea how important shareware was, and arguably still is, to the gaming industry until today. To me, shareware represented the few games I managed to play for free throughout the ’90s. In particular, Duke Nukem 3D at lunchtime at Rupert Loman’s house. (Rupert is the founder of Eurogamer/Gamer Network.) And there, in…
The release of Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals has been pushed back to 2023. Night School Studio says its delaying the release in order to “make Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals the best game it possibly can be”. “We owe it to our amazing community to make Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals the best game it possibly can…
They’ve been up, down, up, down, down, up, and down again, but right now, Dark Souls 3′ PC servers are live once again. Bandai Namco was originally forced to shutter the PC PvP servers for all Dark Souls games back in January following “reports of an issue with online servers”. Although the publisher described the…
Enlarge (credit: Jetta Productions) If you went to high school in the US, you may recall early morning extracurriculars, sleeping through first period algebra, or bleary-eyed late-night study sessions (as opposed to other wide-awake “study sessions” we told our parents we were having). As an adult, you might wonder if there’s a better time to…
Photo by Romeo Varga on Unsplash Things fall apart. That’s the nature of things. One day, the electric socket that powers your yard’s irrigation system is running fine. The next day, the circuit is tripping like a tech bro who just discovered psychedelics after a TED Talk on micro-dosing. You don’t have a go-to electrician…
Nvidia’s graphics cards have tumbled in price over the last week, and AMD’s GPUs have too (in many cases, anyway). Yes, the great easing of graphics card price tags continues for RTX 3000 and RX 6000 products, and it’s not surprising that Nvidia’s GPUs in particular are dropping, given that the RTX 4000 range was…