How Russian TV Portrays the War in Ukraine
In Russia’s version of the war, Russians are liberators, Ukrainians are Nazis, and the West is full of mendacious hypocrites. To turn on Russian TV news is to enter a parallel universe, one where even the word war is forbidden. Russian President Vladimir…
Elite Dangerous abandons console development: No DLC, no “content” updates
Enlarge / If you’d like to explore these wilds on foot in Elite Dangerous‘s 2021 Odyssey DLC, that’s no longer an option on console. And for existing non-DLC players, the news gets worse. Frontier Developments On Thursday, console…
Deadline extended to nominate your company
After COVID-19 disrupted business in 2020 and changed much of our way of life, there was hope for a better 2021. But last year was no less of a rollercoaster ride as COVID infections and restrictions escalated and plummeted along with the case count.…
Building a War Crimes Case Against Putin Is Harder Than You Think
Russian President Putin attends a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart at the Kremlin in Moscow on Feb. 22, 2022. Russian President Putin attends a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart at the Kremlin in Moscow on Feb. 22, 2022. Credit –…
PC fends off Butler 65-61 to advance in Big East Tournament
NEW YORK (WPRI) — Late-game heroics lifted the Providence College Friars over the Butler Bulldogs on Thursday, sending them to the semifinals of the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden. The top-seeded Friars trailed by a point as the game…
Why we can’t stop doomscrolling Ukraine
When Joel Schwartzberg gets into bed, he tucks his phone in with him. For three to four hours each night, he scrolls through haunting images and heartbreaking developments in Ukraine. He says he finds solace commiserating with others on Twitter over the…
Elite Dangerous development on PlayStation and Xbox is canceled
Development of the console version of Elite Dangerous is canceled, meaning that players on PlayStation and Xbox devices will never get to play the latest expansion, Elite Dangerous: Odyssey. Frontier Developments made the announcement on Thursday. The…
The Myth of the ‘First TikTok War’
Have you been watching the war in Ukraine via TikTok? Supposedly, everyone has been. “This is the first war that will be covered on TikTok by super-empowered individuals armed only with smartphones,” the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in…
The price China won’t pay for Russia’s war
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. Illustrated | Getty Images, iStock If there’s some good news coming out of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s misbegotten war on Ukraine, it might be this: China’s alliance with Russia appears to be mostly…
Tech companies racing to get their employees out of Russia
“We moved some of our employees as a primary objective” after the invasion, he recounted, “and then I helped coordinate flights for employees at several tens of other companies.” Initially, he chartered flights to Armenia; by this past weekend, he was…