The delicate blossoms of the cherry tree might be synonymous with the onset of spring in Japan – except this year they’re also blooming in autumn, a weather forecasting company said Wednesday. Experts told local media that the rare late blooms could be the result of this year’s unusual weather, including a particularly active typhoon…
Update 15/03/18: After briefly returning to a more expected £64.99, this Ghost themed Alexa-enabled speaker is back in stock and discounted to £20.97, cheaper than ever before. Get one while you can. Original Story: Cast your minds back to the launch of Destiny 2 in September last year and, amongst the rabble of reviews and…
Donald Trump has put himself front and centre of this year’s midterm elections – rounding off months of campaigning with a final six-day blitz leading into today’s vote. The US president ended the week with rallies in three different states on Monday as he attempted to boost turnout among Republican voters in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri. …
Ever since the day in April 2017 when the European Union granted Spain a veto over how the Brexit divorce deal should apply to Gibraltar, a political time-bomb was placed directly under the negotiations. The veto means that London and Madrid, in consultation with Gibraltar, must agree separately how and if the Brexit deal should apply to the…
Freaky platform game Little Nightmares – “a masterpiece of meat and malice”, we said in our review – is coming to Nintendo Switch. It’ll be released 18th May in a Complete Edition bundling all previously released downloadable content together. Soon, the world will be full of little nightmares and black shadows following your every step….
Elon Musk has been warned by Nasa’s most senior figure not to repeat his weed-smoking, whisky-drinking antics on a recent podcast if he wants to continue working with the space agency. Jim Bridenstein, the Nasa administrator, suggested that Mr Musk, an entrepreneur who is financing commercial space exploration, had acted inappropriately given his role with…
EA isn’t all about Battlefields and Battlefronts – the mega-publisher also has a stealthy experimental technology division we don’t hear much about. SEED (EA’s Search for Extraordinary Experiences Division) was announced last June at E3. Today, at GDC 2018 in San Francisco, SEED showed off what it had been working on. Project Pica Pica is…
Donald Trump, the US president, wanted the justice department to prosecute his political opponents Hillary Clinton and James Comey, the New York Times has claimed, but had to be informed that pursuing a prosecution would be unwise. Mr Trump raised the issue of prosecutions in the spring of this year, two sources told the paper….
Citizens of one of the Western Hemisphere’s least connected countries, Cuba, will now be able to access the internet via their mobile phones. Mayra Arevich, President of the state telecommunications service provider ETECSA announced this long-awaited service on television Tuesday evening. The cost will be out of reach for many Cubans as the average state…
Crazy Rich Asians, the first major Hollywood movie with an all-Asian cast in a quarter of a century, failed to impress audiences in China upon debut. The romantic comedy pulled in $1.2 million (£940 million) at the box office in China over opening weekend after releasing Nov. 30, a far cry from the roughly $25 million it grossed…