It was a chaotic week in the tech world, even before the YouTube HQ shooting. Apple’s pushing its luck by pushing its Mac Pro release to next year, Russia’s mail delivery drone barely got off the ground, and Scott Pruitt’s EPA is doing its best to suffocate California in smog. Numbers, because how else will […]
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How Jagex turned RuneScape into a ‘living game’
Jagex launched its RuneScape massively multiplayer online role-playing game in 2001, and 17 years later, the free-to-play fantasy game is still going strong. The game has been played by more than 250 million people, and it has undergone two major upgrades. In 2013, it release Old School RuneScape to keep original fans happy, and it […]
Chinese President XI Jinping reportedly is now considered a living Buddhist deity
REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel BEIJING (Reuters) – President of China, head of its Communist Party, commander-in-chief of the military and now living Buddhist deity – Xi Jinping has added another title to his growing collection, at least in the eyes of some ethnic Tibetans. Speaking on Wednesday on the sidelines of China’s annual meeting of parliament, the […]
Living in ‘Demon’s Souls’ as the Servers Shut Down
A dispatch from the final hours that the game’s online features were available. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a971efa8e71085604e0264d/master/pass/DemonsSoulsNoEdge.jpg
If we gave everyone a decent standard of living, could we sustain it?
Enlarge (credit: Kevin Gill / Flickr) Could we meet the needs of everyone on the planet without stripping the Earth of all its resources? A paper in this week’s Nature Sustainability says: kind of. It should be possible to meet the basic physical needs of everyone on the planet without using up physical resources too […]
Living hell of pilot blamed for deaths of Busby Babes
GETTY Rescue workers pictured in a snowstorm at the wreckage of the plane carrying the Busy Babes As the aircraft powered down the Munich runway James Thain’s eyes were fixed firmly on the instruments panel, oblivious to the flurries of snow outside. Behind him tensions were running high in the passenger cabin because of the […]
15 things everyone should invest in, according to successful people living lives of luxury
ALVIN MAHMUDOV / Unsplash Once you’re making a steady income — and hopefully putting some money aside, too — buying everything off the high street or shopping only in the sale loses its appeal. No matter how long it takes to save for them, there are some items you should splurge on so they last […]
Going Back to Frat House Living In Your Old Age Helps You To Age Better
Among the elderly, nursing homes, hospices and country-club retirement community homes aren’t the best of all places to spend their sunset days. But Beacon Hill Village in Boston is rewriting the narrative altogether, and the storyline is nothing short of jaw-dropping. A group of seniors who choose to stay adjacent to each other and strive […]
Man living in shack on northern Alberta reserve pleads for housing with running water
A man living in a shack without running water for more than 12 years on a northern Alberta reserve is asking for help.
It’s Not Easy, Making An Easy Living Is It?
Each one of us probably has a day-time occupation, perhaps a decent paycheck, a nice car and a family. We also have our morals and reputations to protect, friends to drink with and, presumably, a home to head to every evening. But though we all have unique lifestyles, nobody can truly tell our struggles when […]