By most accounts, Elden Ring is a stellar game. It brilliantly mixes FromSoftware’s classic Dark Souls-esque action-RPG formula with a Breath of the Wild/Skyrim-esque open-world framework,…
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Shaw-owned regional carrier Freedom Mobile has removed its $80/mo 40GB plan. Freedom changed up its plans slightly just a few days ago,…
AFTER RUSSIA’S annexation of Crimea in 2014 Europe feared that Vladimir Putin would cut supplies of piped gas passing through Ukraine to European customers. That worry led Poland’s then prime minister, Donald Tusk, to issue a stark warning: “Excessive dependence on Russian energy makes Europe weak.” As a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Mr Putin’s…
A STRIKINGLY HARSH appraisal of China’s ongoing technological battle with America appeared on the website of a prestigious Beijing-based think-tank on January 30th. The paper, published by the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS) at Peking University, found that China is likely to be the bigger loser from the technological and economic decoupling under…
THE BUSINESS pages of newspapers tend to deal with the cut and thrust of competition, rather than the cacophony of war. But when it comes to Vladimir Putin’s assault on the sovereignty of Ukraine, there is a company—the world’s largest gas producer—that is right in the thick of it. Gazprom, majority-owned by the Russian state,…
Attacking a country’s tech supply chains in this way is unprecedentedON FEBRUARY 24TH President Joe Biden announced a suite of sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. The focus was on the country’s biggest banks, cutting them off from the dollar and limiting their ability to raise money abroad. But the announcement…
Samsung’s latest S series smartphones are still pretty difficult to repair Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S22 series recently released, and right on cue,…
The recent illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia has left the general population on both sides appalled. And while the West can’t…
Russia’s communication and mass media state regulator Roskomnadzor has blocked social media giant Twitter. This news comes from military & intelligence correspondent…
Hulu already offers a $6.99/month ad-enabled plan, so the Disney+ plan may cost about the same In an attempt to make its…