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Monthly Archives: October 2022
A nuclear detonation. Public domain UN Secretary-General António Guterres said earlier in the year that nuclear war is “back within the realm of possibility.” Russia has previously said it could vaporize various locations in the US with new missiles. A Russian nuclear attack would likely focus on high-value targets in North Dakota or Montana. The…
The University of Stuttgart GreenTeam’s record-breaking electric car. Maximilian Partenfelder/GreenTeam German students built the world’s fastest-accelerating electric vehicle. The carbon-fiber race car zipped to 62 mph in 1.461 seconds late last month. It weighs 320 pounds and makes 241 horsepower. A new world’s quickest electric vehicle has been crowned, and it isn’t made by Tesla…
CSS Shenandoah in a dry dock in Victoria, Australia in 1865. US Naval Historical Center During the US Civil War, Union and Confederate ships fought naval battles all over the world. One Confederate raider, CSS Shenandoah, kept fighting long after the rebels laid down their arms. Historians don’t talk much about naval action during the…
You may not need to pay for Photoshop, depending on your editing and design needs. Getty Images There are free Photoshop alternatives you can use if you’d rather not pay for the leading photo editing and graphics app. Some alternatives like Pixlr X and Canva work in a web browser, while most others need to…
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York, U.S., January 24, 2020. Lucas Jackson/Reuters The silver lining to this year’s 25% decline in the stock market is that there is less risk of a “lost decade” going forward, according to Bank of America.The…
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Donald Trump. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Trump lied about the 2020 election and recycled grievances about the Russia probe and both his impeachments in a letter to the Jan. 6 committee. The letter was Trump’s first official response after the committee voted to subpoena him Thursday. He did not say whether he’d comply with a subpoena,…
The Dead Space remake has to be better than Dead Space. The original came out 14 years ago and imploded common ideas of what a horror game should be: It decreased the power of the headshot and stripped away all on-screen icons to immerse us in the ravaged corridors of the Ishimura, where we were…
Apple’s long-rumored AR/VR headset may have a few extra tricks. The Information‘s sources claim the mixed reality hardware will use iris scanning for signing in and making payments. This would make it easier to buy apps and could even simplify multi-user support, according to the tipsters. Apple has declined to comment, but it reportedly bought…