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Monthly Archives: September 2022
A staff member counts US dollar notes at a bank in Jiangsu Province, China. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images The US Dollar has spiked up against major currencies this year, including a 24% surge against the Japanese yen. The Federal Reserve’s rate hikes are a key factor lifting the dollar but there are others at…
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 2022 Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia on September 7, 2022 Sergey Bobylev/TASS Host Photo Agency/Handout via REUTERS President Vladimir Putin is facing an increasing threat from Russian ultra-nationalist figures who are using their huge platforms on Telegram to demand a far more aggressive military mobilization in Ukraine. For…
It’s been out less than a fortnight, but already over a million people are playing Disney Dreamlight Valley. The life sim – which lets you “discover rich stories and build the perfect neighbourhood alongside Disney and Pixar heroes and villains” – released on 6th September as an early access title, inviting players to “live magically”…
Like a Dragon: Ishin will only feature Japanese voice acting, producer Masayoshi Yokoyama has confirmed. In an interview with Yakuza fan site Tojo Dojo, Yokoyama revealed that whilst the Yakuza series has sometimes offered English voice-acting, Like a Dragon: Ishin’s “specialised vocabulary […] would make the lines incredibly long”, so the game will be translated…
OPINION: Google has a reputation for binning major projects after a few minor bumps in the road. Google Glass and Google Daydream have both kicked the bucket in recent years. And this week, The Verge reported that Google is cancelling its next Pixelbook laptop, and shutting down the team behind it. Considering Google’s track record,…
The Honor Pad 8 unveiled in July will launch soon in India. This revelation comes from Indian online retailer Flipkart, which has started teasing the tablet on its website. There’s no word from Honor about the Pad 8’s pricing and availability in India, but the tablet is already listed on the company’s official Indian website….
Some of the bird species featured on Audubon’s new interactive tool. National Audubon Society The blackburnian warbler is a tiny songbird that weighs about the same as four pennies. Some of these warblers are yellow, streaked with black and white. Others brandish a splash of tangerine across their face and throat. These birds typically spend…
When a future house for astronauts explodes, a celebration might seem inappropriate, but engineers at a commercial space company couldn’t be prouder of their shredded outer space house. Sierra Space, working on one of three NASA contracts to develop commercial space stations, just completed something called the “Ultimate Burst Pressure” test on a mockup of…
What was old is now new again: social messaging platform Discord is adding a feature very similar to classic internet forums; the aptly named Forum Channels. Discord functions as a free range chat room; people enter a channel to talk about whatever they want with some moderation involved to keep things on topic. But the…