Enlarge / Like it never even happened. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Source Byte Studios Chairman of the Board Nikodem Swider had just put in one final late-night bug-squashing session. After four long months of porting work, his small Polish studio was finally ready to submit a near-final build addressing all of the “must…
Enlarge / Vulcan Centaur, United Launch Alliance’s next-generation rocket, lifts off in this artist’s rendering. (credit: United Launch Alliance) Welcome to Edition 5.14 of the Rocket Report! There is plenty of small rocket news this week to digest—from Japan to Washington to Australia, and back again. You should feel free to take your time reading…
London’s iconic Battersea Power Station has opened its doors to the public for the first time in its history. The colossal building is now the heart of a new development which has turned the 42-acre former industrial site into a community of homes, shops, cafes, and cultural venues. The renovation of Battersea Power Station cost…
No two guys are the same, and not every man spends their days dreaming of whiskey stones. (In fact, we’d guess that very few of them do.) Traditional male stereotypes are a thing of the past, y’all, and it’s time we started embracing that fact when we’re looking for gifts. Before you click “buy” on…
Let’s Build a Zoo’s story is one of confusion, surprise, and scammers. Something that reflects what it’s like to develop smaller games in this industry. When the developers at Springloaded went to bed the night after pre-orders went live, I doubt they could imagine what they would wake up to in the morning. Come the…
A Minecraft server has been hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that Cloudflare claims is the largest attack, bitrate-wise, ever mitigated. As reported by BleepingComputer, the attack was conducted by a variant of Mirai (one of the world’s most notorious botnets), against a Minecraft server called Wynncraft. Whoever was behind the attack…
A US Marine and Thai troops train for landmine disposal in February 2019. US Marine Corps/Cpl. Jamin M. Powell The US Army is working on a new landmines designed to attack the thinner armor on the top of tanks. The Army recently awarded a contract for production of the XM204, a “wide area top-attack munition.”…
Sterling Pics I launched Slutty Vegan in 2018 after losing my first restaurant to a grease fire in 2016. In less than a year, I opened my first brick-and-mortar in Atlanta and soon expanded to multiple locations. Today, my company is valued at $100 million with investments from business giants. This as-told-to essay is based…
Business Insider Intelligence This is an update to our May and July PPP Small Business Loans reports. You can purchase all three reports now for the price of one. This report outlines the final numbers after the second tranche’s summer expiry, and will be available for free to those who have purchased any of the two preceding…
Kwasi Kwarteng has been fired by prime minister Liz Truss. Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images UK finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng was fired from his role on Friday. His tax cut proposals have rattled markets for weeks, with yields on gilts soaring. Prime Minister Liz Truss is expected to announce a policy U-turn at 9AM Eastern Time….