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Nuclear brinksmanship with North Korea? California on fire? Puerto Ricans dying in the dark? A tweeter-in-chief who attacks football players, his own party, and the First Amendment? The response from Wall Street: yawn. None of these hideous headlines seems to have put the brakes on the fast-moving economy or the markets that fuel it. Stocks […]
Published time: 10 Sep, 2017 05:12 Footage from the Irma-hit Bahamas freaked out social media users on Saturday as it emerged that seawater was missing from a bay as far as the eye could see. The scene turned out to be a rare natural occurrence tied to the outgoing hurricane. “I am in disbelief right […]
There was a flurry of innuendos, with the Irish presenter saying of the summer holidays: “When you go to the seaside, you think of fish and chips, you think of a poke…” Giggling, Ruth, 57, was left to clarify her husband’s comments, adding: “A poke is ice cream in Irish speak.” The cheeky chat didn’t […]
Checking into a hotel can be like moving back in time, at least when it comes to media. We’re all used to using our own devices to watch television and movies, stream music and play games, but many hotels still cling to their cable-style in-room TV systems that we basically bypass to use our own […]
GIF Image: Amazon Amazon has a new Echo and this time, it has a camera built-in to tell you how ugly, or hot, your outfit looks. Dubbed the Echo Look, this forthcoming $ 200 device has a depth-sensing camera that can take full-length photos and videos using just your voice. Advertisement If you’re like me, […]
GIF via Frame Data V’s successful completion of the Akuma challenge The latest goal for the fighting game community is simple: kill Akuma in Street Fighter V using just two combos. The challenge began last Friday when a player named Javits Arias posted a Tweet, asking his fellow competitors to deplete Akuma’s health Arias wanted […]
Night in the Woods starts on a sour note. Then it piles on more of that bitter flavor day after in-game day of modern malaise and hopelessness. Such is life in the small, supposedly quiet town of Possum Springs. Such is life in thousands of forgotten towns across the United States. We sense all this […]
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Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) When wireless networking based around the 802.11b standard first hit consumer markets in the late nineties, it looked pretty good on paper. Promising “11 Mbps” compared to original wired Ethernet’s 10 Mbps, a reasonable person might have thought 802.11b was actually faster than 10Mbps wired Ethernet connections. It was a while before I […]
Photo: AP Remember when Uber was adamant it didn’t need a permit to put self-driving cars on the road in California? Well, you might say Uber just performed a U-turn! (Please, hold your applause.) The Mercury Newsreports that Uber will apply to the California DMV for a permit to operate its self-driving vehicles after all. […]
