"Once it begins, it becomes more real than real."
Mortgage applications rose 0.5% on a weekly basis, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.
A sudden windfall can cause all sorts of problems if you aren’t ready for it.
On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s still a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
Several meters underwater off the coast of Bonaire, a small island in the south Caribbean, Danielle de Kool floated in place in front of a large head of boulder brain coral. The pattern across its surface looked like the maze you might find on the back of a cereal box. From a plastic syringe, de […]
Selections from ‘The Shape of Things : How Mapmakers Picture Our World’ by Dean Robbins, illustrated by Matt Tavares
When a little-known benchwarmer named Joe Burrow emerged unexpectedly to become the best passer in the country five years ago, it laid a blueprint for late bloomers to find success after switching schools.
The process could yield valuable “lessons learned” for other dealerships, says dealer compliance expert Linda Robertson.
In her new book, Eliza Griswold examines the forces that led to one congregation’s collapse.
Eric Adams ran as a law-and-order candidate. But too often he creates his own drama.
The year is 2149 and people mostly live their lives “on rails.” That’s what they call it, “on rails,” which is to live according to the meticulous instructions of software. Software knows most things about you—what causes you anxiety, what raises your endorphin levels, everything you’ve ever searched for, everywhere you’ve been. Software sends messages…
Last year, as the harvest season drew closer, Olabokunde Tope came across an unpleasant surprise. While certain spots on his 70-hectare cassava farm in Ibadan, Nigeria, were thriving, a sizable parcel was pale and parched—the result of an early and unexpected halt in the rains. The cassava stems, starved of water, had withered to straw. …
The magazine you now hold in your hands is 125 years old. Not this actual issue, of course, but the publication itself, which launched in 1899. Few other titles can claim this kind of heritage—the Atlantic, Harper’s, Audubon (which is also turning 125 this year), National Geographic, and Popular Science among them. MIT Technology Review…
Stormgate is a confusing proposition. It's an RTS directed by former Blizzard developers that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike StarCraft. It's a free-to-play game, but has a business model that makes you feel like you're getting a rougher deal than if you just dropped thirty notes for it outright. It's available now in Early Access, but has already been available in a kind of gravity-defying Super Early Access for several weeks (which you had to pay to get into).
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Square Enix will release Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince for PC via Steam. as well as iOS and Android on September 11, the company announced. Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince first launched for Switch on December 1, 2023. The PC, iOS, and Android versions will include all the downloadable content from the Swit...
Personal care and beauty brand Mamaearth’s former executive Abhiishekk Raj Pandey has joined beauty and salon digital marketplace Zalon as its new chief executive officer.
An Eastern Cape man had a near-death experience when he was attacked by a leopard in Tsholomnqa Village on Sunday.
A man was seriously injured in a horrific crash that saw his superbike landing on top of a car in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, on Wednesday morning.
Henri-Lloyd has announced it is sponsoring Monty Halls's Leaderbox Blue marine conservation project which aims to increase citizen science research in the marine world
Читать дальше...Pandya said she last spoke to her daughter just two days ago, adding, "She told me not to worry about her. Everything's going to be fine."
Cleaning your kettle is important as limescale can stop your appliance from working as effectively - but a cheap fruit can get rid of the grime.
The Duke of Sussex is returning to the Big Apple.
New Wales head coach Craig Bellamy has named Leeds United goalkeeper Karl Darlow in his first squad, while there are recalls for Ollie Cooper, Sorba Thomas and Mark Harris.
The RFU stated earlier in the month that it wanted the Russian national football squad to play ten friendlies a year against countries ranked in the top 80 of the FIFA Rankings
Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal have advanced in the ICC Test rankings, with Kohli now in eighth and Jaiswal in seventh, while Rohit Sharma has slipped to the sixth position. England's Joe Root remains the top-ranked batter. In bowling, Ravichandran Ashwin retains the top spot, with Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja also maintaining their positions.
