Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President Joe Biden at Al Salman Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 15, 2022. Reuters Saudi Arabia has made moves to placate the US after a recent feud over oil. The kingdom has increased its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia. But tensions between the…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX. FTX FTX’s financial woes are likely to transform the crypto industry, JPMorgan strategists said. They predicted a wave of margin calls, and a shortage of industry saviors. Bitcoin could plunge 25% to $13,000, and crypto firms might act more carefully in future, they said. The FTX fiasco threatens to wreak…
Michael Elefante, a property investor, and the luxury cabin in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he and his wife bought in 2021. Michael Elefante Michael Elefante and his wife built a portfolio of six vacation rentals in Tennessee and Florida. They bought their first short-term-rental property in 2019 and scaled while working full time. Here are Elefante’s best…
Doja Cat the 2019 BET Awards. Leon Bennett/FilmMagic Doja Cat posted an audio clip of her sighing over Twitter users paying $8 a month for verification. She also mocked those who paid $8 for the verification badge. She changed her Twitter handle to “Christmas,” and then realized she couldn’t undo the change. Doja Cat — …
A student wearing a face mask as a precaution. High school students from various schools in Tambov (Russia) at an additional lesson and practical seminar on ecology. Lev Vlasov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Russian schools are adding a basic military training course to their curricula, per TASS. The course is a Soviet-era practice that teaches…
Brittney Griner in a courtroom in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, on August 4, 2022. Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP Biden said he hopes Putin will be willing to talk about freeing Brittney Griner with midterms over. He said he hopes Putin will “be willing to talk more seriously about a prisoner exchange.” Griner’s appeal…
Names are important when it comes to Mini Motorways. That’s in part because names are important when it comes to cities. This is a game that tasks you with drawing the highway infrastructure for a series of famous cities around the world, but the whole thing is cleanly abstracted. I can recognise the abstracted Los…
YouTube has announced that it has hit 80 million subscribers for its joint Music and Premium services. Over on the official YouTube blog, the company’s Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen has revealed that “As of September 2022, YouTube surpassed 80 million Music and Premium subscribers globally, including those in trials”. This represents a huge…
The Pixel returns with minimal hardware differences but the price is low and, as a package, the phone impressesRead More
Prettier but the 10th gen iPad isn’t that much better than the 9th gen model and it’s far more expensiveRead More