Month: May 2024
Google in Game development
Google and Samsung each have backgrounds in developing AR and VR products. While the 2015 Google Glass and 2016 Daydream View weren’t popular among consumers, Google took an early lead in the XR space and redirected its efforts toward enterprise customers in 2017.Over the years, Google has made many attempts at pushing VR and AR
Protest against Netanyahu government
The expanding Rafah operation has drawn warnings from neighboring Egypt, whose foreign ministry said it intends to formally join South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice alleging Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, which Israel rejects. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Memorial Day speech vowed to continue fighting until victory in memory
Russians on north border of Kharkiv
Ukraine on Friday announced that Russia had launched an attack in the Kharkiv region, amid fears tyrant Vladimir Putin seeks to seize the nation’s second city.The Ukrainian army’s top commander said the situation was ‘complicated’ but his forces were managing to hold back further Russian advances. Russian force are continuing their relentless pummelling of the
The Emotional Gaza war
As on campuses in America and in street protests in Europe, the sympathies among those who are concerned about the conflict and who in Singapore include many young non-Muslims are for Palestinians suffering from Israel’s heavy-handed prosecution of the war.Far more than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war in Gaza is rattling public opinion in
New world economic order
For years the order that has governed the global economy since the second world war has been eroded. Today it is close to collapse. A worrying number of triggers could set off a descent into anarchy, where might is right and war is once again the resort of great powers. Even if it never comes
Evacuations in Rafah
Rafah borders Egypt near the main aid entry points, which already are affected. Israeli troops have captured the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing, forcing it to shut down.Israel ordered new evacuations in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Saturday, forcing tens of thousands more people to move as it prepares to expand its military
Russia discovers Oil in Antarctica
Russia has found vast oil and gas reserves in the Antarctic, much of it in areas claimed by the UK. Reserves totalling 511bn barrels of oil – about 10 times the North Sea’s entire 50-year output – have been reported to Moscow by Russian research ships, according to evidence given to the Commons Environment Audit
Tampa Bay Internet Outage
A widespread outage Saturday was caused by an electrical fire on a utility pole that damaged a fiber cable. On the social media platform X, several Spectrum customers reached out Saturday morning asking for updates in the St. Petersburg area. The account @Ask_Spectrum responded with no specifics as to what caused the outage or how
Four New Ukraine villages under Russia control
villages of Borysivka, Ohirtseve, Pylna and Strilecha, were taken by Russian troops on Friday. Russia said the village of Pletenivka was also taken. Russia’s recent push in Kharkiv also seeks to exploit ammunition shortages before promised Western supplies can reach the front line, and pin down Ukrainian forces in the northeast and keep them away
Recruitment of Far right extremists to fight the West
After the Salisbury poisonings in 2018, dozens of Russian spies were expelled by the UK Government.It is now believed that the Kremlin has been forced to follow a tactic similar to that used by Iran in which organised crime gangs are used to carry out proxy terrorist attacks. Russia is recruiting far-Right extremists to carry