Grandstanding fears as Norwegian mass killer seeks parole Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik goes to court Tuesday, after 10 years behind bars, claiming he is no longer a danger to society and attempting to get an early release from his 21-year sentence By MARK LEWIS Associated Press January 17, […]
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Microsoft to Buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Billion – Variety
Microsoft announced a deal to buy video-game player Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in cash.If it goes through, it would be Microsoft’s biggest-ever acquisition — and by far the biggest deal ever in the video game biz. Activision Blizzard’s lineup of games includes “Call of Duty,” “Candy Crush,” “Warcraft,” “Diablo,” […]
Grandstanding fears as Norwegian mass killer seeks parole
STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik goes to court, Tuesday, after 10 years behind bars, claiming he is no longer a danger to society and attempting to get an early release from his 21-year sentence. The far right terrorist has shown no remorse since slaying 77 […]
Essential California: Rail thefts leave L.A. train tracks littered with packages – Los Angeles Times
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter .It’s Monday, Jan.17 — Martin Luther King Jr.Day.I’m Elvia Limón, filling in for Justin Ray. When railroads opened up in the West in the 19th century, they transported everything from people to supplies — transforming them into tempting targets for bandits. […]
Reddit Cofounder Says 90% Of Games In 5 Years Will Be Blockchain ‘Play-To-Earn’ Titles
In what has to be one of the most stunningly bad predictions I’ve seen about the concept of blockchain-based video games, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian recently had this to say about how pervasive the concept will become in the future on the Where It Happens podcast : “90% of people […]
All the big games of 2022 you should know about – CNET
Starfield.Last year wasn’t terrible for games, thanks to highlights like Psychonauts 2, Forbidden City and Deathloop , but it wasn’t the year it was meant to be.Games in the middle of development when the pandemic hit were disrupted, leading many to be delayed into 2022.But what was bad news in […]
The best external hard drives for 2022
Almost nothing is worse than realizing you don’t have enough space on your PC to store your latest files.External drives can be a great solution to that problem, as well as a good backup source to keep your most precious data protected.As outlined in our guide on how to choose […]
Samsung Introduces Game Changing Exynos 2200 Processor With Xclipse GPU Powered By AMD RDNA 2 Architecture – Samsung Global Newsroom
Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced its new premium mobile processor, the Exynos 2200.The Exynos 2200 is a freshly designed mobile processor with a powerful AMD RDNA 2 architecture based Samsung Xclipse graphics processing unit (GPU).With the most cutting-edge Arm®-based CPU cores available in the […]
Cold case team may know who betrayed Anne Frank
Anne Frank, the teenage Holocaust victim whose posthumously published diary gave the world a glimpse of what it was like to hide from Nazi persecution, may have been betrayed by a prominent Jewish businessman, according to a cold case-style investigation outlined in a new book, “The Betrayal of Anne Frank […]
The poor die from COVID while the rich get richer, Oxfam warns | Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera
The coronavirus vaccine divide is costing lives and supercharging inequalities worldwide, a new report warns. A group of 252 men have more wealth than all one billion women and girls in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean combined, a new report from Oxfam says [File: Angela Ponce/Reuters] By Al […]