Brandon Bell/Getty; DorianGray/Getty; Anna Moneymaker/Getty; Drew Angerer/Getty; joebelanger/Getty; Mike Kline/Getty; Anna Kim/Insider The US government is old and getting older. There are profound implications — social, civil, technological — for the electorate. See whether your knowledge of the US gerontocracy makes the grade. Insider recently launched “Red, White, and Gray,” a series that explores the…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Spencer Platt / Getty Images The Bank of England’s emergency bond purchase program may have prevented a collapse in UK pension funds.The BoE bought $72 billion in long-dated UK gilts to help stem a wide-reaching margin call that impacted UK pension funds.“They would have been wiped out,” Cardano Investment’s Kerrin Rosenberg told the Financial Times….
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend told Insider that her uncle, John F. Kennedy, mobilized youth to use power well. Jason Carter, talked about how his grandfather, Jimmy Carter, advanced climate change policies that were ahead of his time. Patricia Taft, great-granddaughter of William H. Taft, said Gen X is “pretty thirsty and ready to take the reins.”…
A satellite image of the methane plumes from the Nord Stream pipelines. International Methane Emissions Observatory The first images of methane escaping from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines have been released. The International Methane Emissions Observatory and a university in Spain analyzed the images. They found the radius of emissions has fallen from 700 meters…
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted new rules to address the growing risk of “space junk” or abandoned satellites, rockets and other debris. The new “5-year-rule” will require low-Earth operators to deorbit their satellites within five years following the completion of missions. That’s significantly less time than the previous guideline of 25 years. …
PlayStation announced a new loyalty programme in mid-2022, that should make it even more engaging to use PlayStation consoles and services over time – PlayStation Stars. The service has launched in Asia, with release dates imminent in the rest of the world, so we’ve got all the key details about it, right here. What is…
If you’re trying to figure out which are the very best smartphones to buy in 2022, we have the answers. We’ve ranked and rated the top performers from our extensive phone reviews in one definitive list. Whether you typically prefer Apple’s iPhone, want to check out the latest Samsung flagship or fancy something different from…
Google’s cloud gaming platform, Stadia, will no longer work from 19 January 2023. You have until then to play all of the games in your Stadia library, but what about the many dollars, euros or pounds you plunged into the service over the last two years? What happens to the games you paid full price…
Sticking to what you know can be a reliable way to succeed sometimes, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that one of the creators of Dead Space is back with another slow and terrifying space horror game. Best upcoming games for Xbox Series X and Series S: The top next-gen games for 2022 and beyond…
Meta Connect is fast approaching and we’re expecting some big announcements and reveals from Meta about its plans for future VR headsets. We saw a good tease of what the company is working on back in June and the Meta Quest Pro (previously referred to as Project Cambria) also leaked earlier this month as well. Now…