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Unlike in years past, Amazon held back on the wacky. Instead, it expanded products and functionality in its most popular lines.

Exponential growth in scientific discovery makes us feel like we live in extraordinary times, but that’s a fallacy.

Two people suffered minor injuries and a vehicle was damaged Wednesday when a vehicle crashed through the front of a Barrhaven bank branch. The crash, which occurred at 11:53 a.m., was at a bank branch on Strandherd Drive near Greenbank Road. Ottawa Fire Services structural experts determined that the structure of the building was not […]

The e-commerce giant revealed a slew of new products, including three Echo Dot smart speakers, Blink and Ring security cameras, Fire TV products and much more.

Regions Bank for a second time in a decade was found charging illegal overdraft fees in a settlement that will require the bank to repay $141 million to customers plus $50 million in fees

Alexander Brotman, Geo. Monitor
Italy's new prime minister will likely push a softer Euroscepticism that focuses on what Europe can realistically achieve by granting more powers to national...

Harold Chambers, Riddle Russia
Russia's 'partial' mobilization has instantly changed the atmosphere in the country, sparking nationwide anti-conscription protests. Unlike previous nationwide...

J. Burke, Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Dore Gold, Jerusalem Post

Iran wanted to remake the Middle East. It had dispatched Shi'ite proxy armies to Syria, with their families to reconfigure the regional demography as it aspired to...

Duncan Weldon, New Statesman

Kwasi Kwarteng's reckless Budget is set to trigger a surge in interest rates that will hurt households when they can least afford it.

Francesco Sassi, The Diplomat
The consistency and reliability of Asian buyers of Russian oil, LNG, and coal are the most important element allowing Moscow strategic space against the Western...

Jacob Heilbrunn, Spectator
And has it made a huge mistake?

A federal judge has ordered a fresh round of mediation talks aimed at restructuring more than $8 billion in debt held by Puerto Rico’s power company as it struggles to recover from Hurricane Fiona

When I first started thinking about writing this blog on Magpies I realised that I had no idea where the name came from. My first thought was that it couldn’t be a Pie made of Mags (I once had a girlfriend of that name). But, blow me, it was. Sort of.
I looked up various etymology sites and they all agree that Mag is a nickname for Margaret and was slang English for qualities associated generally with women, especially in this case ‘idle chattering’ as in Magge tales ‘tall tales, nonsense’ in the early 15th century. Читать дальше...

Alexander Etkind, The Moscow Times
Opinion | No one knows the future, but what we predict reveals who we are.

George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures

Logic dictates that Italy would elect a hard oppositional government that sees the ECB as a threat to Italian prosperity. It has long been our position...

Ring unveiled two new feature-rich outdoor cameras at Amazon's fall event, the Ring Spotlight Cam Plus and the Ring Spotlight Cam Pro.

Amazon's subscription service provides a bevy of benefits beyond expedited shipping.

The Federal Government on Wednesday declared Monday, October 3, 2022, as a public holiday to mark the nation’s 62nd Independence anniversary celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, congratulated all Nigerians on this year’s celebration. Aregbesola in a statement signed by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary,

Henry believes the system takes the joy away from the sport.

3 Body Problem executive producers D.B. Weiss, David Benioff, and Alexander Woo | Image: Netflix

Though Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem is one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking pieces of speculative fiction to come out in recent years, you wouldn’t know it judging from the way that Netflix has (barely) been talking about 3 Body Problem, its forthcoming adaptation of the novel from Alexander Woo, D.B. Weiss, and David Benioff

Restaurant software and payments platform Lavu has launched a new solution that offers restaurants cash advances. The new Lavu Capital offering is powered by embedded FinTech company Parafin and gives restaurants “easy access to fast capital,” according to a Wednesday (Sept. 28) press release. “It’s frustrating to see how many restaurant owners don’t qualify for […]

Ring unveiled two new feature-rich outdoor cameras at Amazon's fall event, the Ring Spotlight Cam Plus and the Ring Spotlight Cam Pro.