On a scorching afternoon in the sleepy countryside town of Sorocaba, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, Adriano Costa e Silva steps out of his latest election campaign meeting with his gun strapped firmly to his waist. In tow of the serving army major and candidate for state governor are a rabble of neatly…
Nasa has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019. It will be the first manned US launch to the orbiting research laboratory since the space shuttle program was retired in 2011, forcing US astronauts to hitch costly rides aboard…
AMD loves to provide PC users with a great $99 CPU, and with the Ryzen 3 2200G, it’s delivered a genuine classic. Traditional wisdom suggests that when constructing a gaming PC, you need to purchase both CPU and GPU, but the Red Team’s latest offering delivers an all-in-one package – a quad-core Ryzen CPU, paired…
Bert and Ernie, the iconic Sesame Street characters, were a gay couple, according to a writer who penned their words for two decades. However, the claim brought a categorical denial from the organisation behind the children’s show, which said the puppets were just friends and did not have any sexual orientation. Mark Saltzman, the writer,…
Nintendo has shifted 4m of its dinky SNES mini consoles. The Nintendo Classic Mini: SNES launched in Europe and North America at the end of September last year, and in early October over in Japan. A month later it had already sold 2m units. The fact the SNES mini has continued to sell shows Nintendo…
Nintendo has confirmed it is working on a Mario movie with Illumination Entertainment, the animation studio behind Minions and Despicable Me. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto is listed as a co-producer on the film, alongside Illumination boss and Minions creator Chris Meledandri. There’s no word yet on a release date. Nintendo has also not yet confirmed…
A man filmed punching a girl in central Paris after she told him to “shut up for harassing her in the street, sparking national outrage, has been sentenced to six months in prison. A Paris court found the 25-year old man, who is homeless, guilty of “violence with the use or threat of a weapon”…
At lunchtime the Thursday before last, Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was hanging by a thread. Christine Blasey Ford had just spent the best part of fours hours detailing how Mr Kavanaugh had allegedly sexually assaulted her at high school house party. The California professor, voice wavering, had begun by declaring she was…
Hundreds of migrants and refugees have lined up in front of a police station in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, waiting to be arrested so that they can lodge their asylum applications. The unusual sight came as the number of asylum-seekers crossing the land border from Turkey surged. Around 11,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the…
Beijing has warned the US must “bear responsibility for the consequences” if Washington doesn’t withdraw new sanctions on China for procuring military equipment from Russia. The US government imposed sanctions on the Chinese military on Thursday for buying ten SU-25 fighter jets and S-400 surface-to-air missile systems from Russia, in breach of a sweeping US sanctions law…