Attendees walk past an Electronic Arts (EA) “Minions Paradise” video game poster at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles, California, United States, June 17, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson HONG KONG, June 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Electronic Arts (EA.O) is trying to assemble a dream team. The $40 billion […]
Daily Archives: June 23, 2021
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Prime Day‘s second day is underway, giving Nintendo Switch owners plenty of great deals to choose from — and not just from Amazon. Nintendo rarely discounts its own games, but Prime Day and its rivals have brought down the price of the portable console’s biggest titles, including The Legend of […]
John McAfee legal troubles in recent years attracted a lot of attention. VCG/Getty Hours after a Spanish court granted a request to have him extradited to the US, John McAfee was found dead in a Spanish prison cell on Wednesday. The Catalan Justice Department said 75-year-old McAfee took his own […]
President Joe Biden promised this week to increase the pay of federal firefighters, some of whom make just $13 an hour to perform life-threatening work that is only intensifying as fires become deadlier and more frequent. “There’s an old expression: God made man, and then he made a few firefighters. […]
Josiah Horneman and Antoinette Traub at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Josiah Horneman/Antoinette Traub/Google Maps/Insider The Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station is now plunged in the dark polar winter. But for 39 staff “over-wintering” at the station, life is far from boring. From the music room to the climbing gym, […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. and its allies on Wednesday ramped up the pressure on Russia to allow the continued operation of a critical humanitarian aid route into Syria weeks ahead of a critical deadline. Bab al-Hawa, the crossing between Turkey and Syria that is the last authorized humanitarian corridor, is […]
New Zealanders are celebrating after the Black Caps were crowned world Test cricket champions on a dramatic sixth day of the final against India – a huge boost given previous heartbreaks and near-misses on the pitch. The match, which extended into a reserve day due to rain in Southampton, had […]
WASHINGTON — Masten Space Systems is pushing back the launch of its first lunar lander mission by nearly a year, the latest in a series of delays by companies with NASA contracts to transport payloads to the moon. Masten said June 23 that its Masten Mission 1 lander, which had […]