Monthly Archives: October 2022

Modern Warfare reboot’s Captain Price wanted to be a Scouser

Modern Warfare reboot’s Captain Price, Barry Sloane, says he pushed to give the iconic character a Liverpudlian accent. In an interview with NME, Sloane talked about his respect for the character’s original voice actor, Billy Murray, and what it was like to “physically embody” the fan-favourite character. “Murray did an incredible performance, it was amazing,”…

LEGO Ideas Table Football build-your-own game lets you assemble a team of soccer champions

Bring out the soccer fan in you with the LEGO Ideas Table Football Game. Coming with 22 LEGO minifigures (11 for each team), with 44 different heads and 43 hairstyle elements, this LEGO set will let you customize the look of each character. Additionally, the 5-minifigures-a-side and 2 rods per team are ideal to control…

Republicans sue Google over ‘discriminatory’ spam filtering practices

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Republican National Committee (RNC) is suing Google for allegedly sending “millions” of campaign emails to users’ spam folders (via Axios). According to the lawsuit filed in California’s Eastern District Court on Friday, the RNC accuses Google of “throttling its email messages because of the RNC’s political affiliation…

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover could leave banks holding $13 billion in debt, making it the biggest stalled deal ever, report says

Elon Musk is expected to close Twitter deal by October 28. Patrick Pleul/Getty Images; Vicky Leta/Insider Musk’s Twitter deal could leave banks holding $13 billion in debt, The Wall Street Journal reported. That would make it the biggest “hung” deal and mean lenders may sell the debt when markets rebound. Banks involved in the $44…

Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening to cancel a San Francisco toilet that could cost $1.7 million and take more than two years to build

Ventdusud/Shutterstock Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening to halt plans for a $1.7 million toilet in San Francisco. The toilet received backlash, and demands to explain the cost and two-year construction timeline. The city’s Rec and Park department said the costs included planning, drawing, permits, and reviews. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening to halt plans…

The US Army Corps of Engineers is dredging the Mississippi River and racing to keep the sea from contaminating drinking water

In this photo taken by a drone, the normally wide Mississippi River has been reduced to a narrow trickle, October 20, 2022, near Portageville, Missouri. Jeff Roberson/AP Photo The Mississippi River is at record low levels, stranding barges and allowing sea water to move in with no end in sight. The US Army Corps of…

Think you’ve got it bad? Odds are your manager is even more burned out than you are, according to a new survey.

Slack polled 10,646 knowledge workers across the US, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK, as part of s survey conducted in May. Violeta Stoimenova/Getty Images Your manager might be even more burned out than you are, according to new survey from Slack.  43% of the middle managers surveyed reported burnout, more than any other…

Armed and masked ‘ballot watchers’ sat by ballot drop boxes in Arizona late at night, prompting police investigation

A voter places a ballot in a drop box outside of the Maricopa County Elections Department on August 02, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Police investigated armed and masked individuals parked near ballot drop boxes in Mesa, Arizona.  Local reporters said there were two individuals “dressed in tactical gear, fully disguised” by a…