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 […]
An accountant got $20,000 in student debt wiped out. 5 months later, he quit his job and ran for office.
In August, David O’Keefe, 36, got his remaining $20,000 student debt load forgiven.That gave him the financial security to quit his job and run for office five months later.He told Insider that without student-loan forgiveness, there’s no way he could’ve pursued his passion.Get a daily selection of our top stories […]
The rise and fall of Esprit, SF’s coolest clothing brand
In 1991, San Francisco clothing brand Esprit sent a note to 200,000 young people with a simple question : “What would you do to make the world better?” They turned the responses into a controversial ad campaign that ran on MTV and 11 other channels, giving teens the thrill of […]
Atlanta transit leader CEO dies by suicide at train station
Jeffrey Parker, who led the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority during a time of expansion and then during the pandemic when public transportation ridership plummeted, has died, the agency announced. A spokesperson for the agency, Stephany Fisher, said that Parker died by suicide when he was struck by a train […]
Surveillance flights finally getting to view damage to Tonga from eruption of huge undersea volcano – CBS News
Wellington, New Zealand — New Zealand and Australia were able to send military surveillance flights to Tonga on Monday to assess the damage a huge undersea volcanic eruption left in the Pacific island nation. A towering ash cloud since Saturday’s eruption had prevented earlier flights.New Zealand hopes to send essential […]
Law enforcement official running for New York governor calls for leniency for January 6 rioter – CBS News
A candidate seeking the Republican nomination for governor of New York wrote and signed a letter on official letterhead seeking leniency for a state resident who pleaded guilty to entering a restricted building on Capitol grounds during the January 6 attack . In his letter to the judge, Lewis County, […]