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Enlarge / Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games: A race to the bathroom? (credit: Getty | Mark Ralston) With the opening ceremony set for Friday, an outbreak of the highly infectious gastrointestinal bug norovirus already has a solid lead at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in South Korea. In just a few days, official case counts […]
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– With U.S.-market diesels nixed at Audi and on borrowed time over at Mercedes-Benz, BMW stands to be the only German luxury-brand willing to keep selling them here. And BMW’s latest diesel-burner, the 2018 540d xDrive sedan, is shaping up to be a stunner, with huge helpings of the the torque and fuel economy that give diesel-powered entries […]
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has left the Early Access program for unfinished games on Steam, and now esports organizations want to see if they can make it into a major draw. Global Loot League is leading that charge with a PUBG season that comes with $ 50,000 in prize money. That is one of the larger prize […]
Hey, remember that a Detective Pikachu movie is happening? And remember that Ryan Reynolds is starring as the voice of the talking hardboiled private eye Pikachu? And that this will be the first Pokemon feature film outside of the anime movies that have been released? Well, this baffling movie just got a little more bizarre, with acclaimed serious actor Ken Watanabe […]
Published time: 9 Jan, 2018 08:50 Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai says he has grown by 9cm in height during the past three weeks aboard the International Space Station. He expressed concern as to whether he would fit into the spacecraft to return to Earth. Kanai, a flight engineer on the Expedition 54/55, shared his observation […]
Enlarge / Watch out for that cow. (credit: Getty | Tim Graham) How can we, as WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) individuals, mitigate our catastrophic effects on the environment? Pretty much all recommendations start with this: eat less meat. Like the other top recommendations—drive less and fly less—this is not super appealing to most […]
In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Star Wars: The Last Jedi gets an MPAA rating Another theory about Rey’s parents is (sort of) debunked A 29-foot Millennium Falcon parks on a family’s roof Mark Hamill makes a plea for secrecy And much more! In one of the more shocking developments from Star Wars: Battlefront II, Han Solo grows […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Andrew Brookes) The broadband industry is stepping up its attack on states that dare to impose privacy or net neutrality rules on Internet service providers. Mobile industry lobby group CTIA urged the Federal Communications Commission to preempt state laws on privacy and net neutrality in a recent meeting and filing. […]
Published time: 18 Oct, 2017 18:32 The spread of internet use in Southeast Asia is fuelling the creation and spread of child exploitation – and experts are warning that children are being coerced into creating the material themselves. Internet availability across Southeast Asia currently sits at about 50 percent, according to a recent study. However, […]
