This is not an easy Quordle. I say that quite often in these article introductions, but today’s Quordle will attack your brain from many angles, leaving you begging for mercy, and that’s presumably why you’re here. If it’s a little too challenging, you’ve come to the right place for hints. There aren’t just hints here,…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
People, most of them Russians, crossing the border between Georgia on September 28. Shakh Aivazov/Associated Press At least 200,000 Russians have fled the country after Putin ordered a partial mobilization. Many are heading to neighboring countries where they can enter visa-free, like Kazakhstan and Georgia. The influx has jacked up hotel rates and rents in…
Hello! With Dorfromantik landing on Switch today, here’s a piece from Jay that takes a closer look at landscapes. If you’re interested in the Switch port itself, we’re running a piece on Saturday. I can’t ever get my Dorfromantik dioramas to look quite right. Other people seem to be able to make their rural idylls…
Editor’s note: Maria Ressa’s keynote speech at the APAC Trusted Media Summit 2022 below. Filipino-American journalist and author, Ressa is the co-founder and CEO of Rappler, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” Excerpts from her speech…
A big-screen E Ink device equally at home with documents and books released by Amazon in the depths of an economic downturn, and it’s not the Kindle Scribe that Amazon unveiled on Wednesday during a massive smart product rollout. This was the Amazon Kindle DX, a 9.7-inch E Ink reader released in 2009. It wasn’t…
Doccla, a Sweden founded but London-headquartered health tech startup that sells a remote patient monitoring platform to hospitals to run so-called ‘virtual wards’, has closed a £15 million (~$17M) Series A funding round a year after raising a $3.3M seed. The Series A is led by US VC General Catalyst, with participation from funds managed…
With the holiday shopping season fast approaching, we’ve seen big product launch events from the likes of Apple, Samsung, and plenty others. Amazon announced a slew of products covering a wide range of product categories throughout the home. Unlike the others, Amazon didn’t open this event to the public, but we were invited to watch…
The Russian aviation industry is reliant on foreign imports. Media_works/Shutterstock Russia plans to build 1,000 homegrown airliners by 2030 to reduce reliance on Airbus and Boeing. Russia relies heavily on tech imports, which have been hit by sanctions over the Ukraine war. Former Russian finance official Oleg Vyugin said recently the country faces a technological…
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines have sprung leaks that are billowing natural gas into the Baltic Sea. Danish Defence Command A UK defense source says the Nord Stream pipelines were likely attacked with remote explosives.The source told Sky News the bombs could have been planted years before the leaks occurred.This comes the same…
Automatic emergency braking (AEB) is pretty good at preventing low-speed rear-end crashes but kind of sucks when vehicles are traveling at more average speeds, according to new research from the American Automobile Association (AAA). Starting September 2022, all new cars sold in the US are required to come standard with AEB, which uses forward-facing cameras…