Between WarioWare, NES Remix, and Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition, Nintendo has a thing for chopping its games up. Small chunks, often. When it comes to Nintendo World Championships, the clunky name is by far the longest part. As for the rest of the game, it’s, what, 10 seconds, 50 seconds at a push? This … Read more
There has been a cinema on the site since the 1920s The Odeon cinema on Allerton Road before it closed in 2009(Image: TRINITY MIRROR/REACH CONTENTS ARCHIVE) It is now 15 years since a beloved cinema that once stood in the heart of one of Liverpool’s most famous streets closed its doors for good. For years … Read more
Ariane 6 will launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 9 July 2024. Credit: ESA – S. Corvaja Ariane 6, Europe’s new heavy lift rocket, made its maiden flight from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 16:00 local time on 9 July (20:00 BST, 21:00 CEST). Ariane 6 is the latest member of the … Read more
Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor-in-chief of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shari Redstone has agreed to sell Hollywood group Paramount to independent film studio Skydance, ending her family’s involvement in the company her grandfather founded in 1936. The merger, which values the new company at $28 billion, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free FT editor Roula Khalaf selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Even by Blackstone’s standards, it was a huge windfall. The private capital group recently sold the last of its massive investment in Refinitiv, the financial data company it acquired from Thomson Reuters. The investment is considered one … Read more
In a historic moment that marks the end of an era, GB Railfreight has delivered what is likely its final load of coal to Uniper’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in preparation for its closure on September 30. The 1,650-ton delivery, expected to be the last in the station’s history, will carry enough coal to generate electricity … Read more
Was the Xbox 360 really the pinnacle of gaming? (Microsoft) One reader is convinced that the Xbox 360 and PS3 era was the pinnacle of gaming and that publishers should have realized that at the time. Nostalgia is, as they say, a great drug. It ultimately affects everyone and seems to destroy any sense of … Read more
GOLDEN, Colo. – A hot topic for lunar researchers is whether water ice is an easily accessible resource at the moon’s south pole, as experts have long believed. The search for exploitable water ice is a high priority on NASA’s Artemis agenda as the agency strives for a sustainable human presence on the moon. Moon … Read more
As the bones locked in the rocks rotted away, water-based silica seeped into the crevices, solidified into opal and preserved precious details for 100 million years. The resulting fossils now provide evidence that there may really have been an age of monotremes, before other mammals took over. “It’s like discovering a whole new civilisation,” says … Read more