A building in Ukraine destroyed in a Russian strike with what local officials said were Iranian Shahed-136 drones on October 5. SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images Russian forces have begun using Iranian-made drones in attacks on Ukrainian forces. Moscow appears to be using the drones to compensate for shortfalls in artillery and airpower. Experts say…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Nintendo has confirmed it’ll be broadcasting two Japanese concerts – one for Animal Crossing and another for Splatoon 3 – online next week for viewers around the world. The concerts are part of Nintendo Live 2022, a two-day event being held at Tokyo Big Sight from 8-9th October, promising live music, stage activities, game competitions,…
Are you getting the “Player is in a different version of Overwatch” error in Overwatch 2? If so, you won’t be able to play together with them. Overwatch 2 was released on October 4, 2022. Since its release, the game has had multiple known issues. Some of the known issues are server disconnection, cosmetics, items,…
Your target market sets the tone for your entire marketing strategy — from how you develop and name your products or services right through to the marketing channels you use to promote them. Here’s a hint before we dig in: Your target market is not “everyone” (unless you’re Google). Your task in defining your target…
Hello and welcome to the first-ever edition of The Spark! Thanks so much for joining me for this weekly climate newsletter, where we’ll explore tech that could help combat the climate crisis. I’m so glad you’re here! This week, we’re kicking things off with a special travel edition of the newsletter. So buckle up, because…
Northwestern University lab members examine a donor human brain to study why some individuals, known as “super-agers,” have exceptional memories late in life. Tamar D. Gefen If people over 80 with exceptional memory—a group who Northwestern researchers call “super-agers”—had a symbol in the style of Superman’s “S”, it might be the “super neurons” in their…
Tools helping China’s netizens to bypass the Great Firewall appear to be facing a fresh round of crackdowns in the run-up to the country’s quinquennial party congress that will see a top leadership reshuffle. Greater censorship is not at all uncommon during countries’ politically sensitive periods, but the stress facing censorship circumvention tools in China…
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a hacker compromising cryptocurrency scam sites and diverting already stolen funds to his own wallets, and have already raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars this way. According to Trend Micro, a threat actor called “Water Labbu” found and breached 45 scam websites and replaced their wallet addresses with his own….
The homepage of GoodwillFinds. Goodwill Finds GoodwillFinds, a new secondhand online marketplace, launched on Tuesday. The website features thousands of curated Goodwill items ranging across brands and price points. The move comes as online thrifting continues to explode in popularity. Thrifting enthusiasts, rejoice: Goodwill just went online. The new marketplace, which officially debuted Tuesday as…
US President Joe Biden meets with Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy on October 5, 2022. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden dropped the F-bomb during his visit to Florida on Wednesday. “No one fucks with a Biden,” he’s heard telling Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy. Biden traveled to Florida to survey…