HIGHLIGHTS Below was revealed at E3 2013 It was to be an Xbox One console exclusive This doesn’t seem to be the case now Announced during Microsoft’s E3 2013 event, Below is an action roguelike developed by Capybara Games, known for games like Critter Crunch and Super Time Force. It was indefinitely delayed after the studio decided to spend more time polishing the game. While the release window for Below is slated for 2018, for Steam and Xbox One, it appears that Below may be making it to the PS4 and Nintendo Switch after all. According to an interview with GodIsaGeek.com, Below’s director, Kris…
Author: Loknath Das
The Latest on the Kentucky legislature’s final day of session (all times local): 8:20 p.m. Kentucky lawmakers have wrapped up this year’s legislative session. The final day of work Saturday included two bills with last-minute changes to spending and tax policies. The bills sped through the Senate and House and are headed to Gov. Matt Bevin. He has authority to veto any of the changes and lawmakers wouldn’t be able to attempt an override. The day included an extraordinary rebuke of Bevin’s incendiary remarks toward teachers. The GOP-led Kentucky House approved a pair of resolutions condemning Bevin’s comments Friday that…
Well, here’s something you don’t see announced often (or ever, for that matter): A smartphone that can’t connect to the Internet. That’s right, Samsung’s new Galaxy J2 Pro (it ain’t a “pro” anything if it can’t go online) is intentionally designed to have no way to go online. And nope, we haven’t slipped into a Tardis and time traveled into April Fool’s Day 2019. Apparently made for students and senior citizens, the J2 Pro lacks any kind of cellular data connectivity. Samsung’s press release (Google translated) says the phone “blocks mobile data such as 3G, LTE, and Wi-Fi” with the intent of…
PORTLAND, Ore. — Anthony Davis stole the show and the New Orleans Pelicans stole home-court advantage from the Portland Trail Blazers. Davis had 35 points, 14 rebounds and four blocks, Jrue Holiday and Rajon Rondo won the backcourt battle, and the Pelicans held on for a 97-95 victory on Saturday night in Game 1 of their Western Conference first-round series. Holiday added 21 points, outplaying both Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, and had a big blocked shot in the closing seconds as New Orleans escaped after Portland erased almost all of a 19-point deficit. “It’s the playoffs,” Holiday said of…
Brett Brown found it early on: a way of coping with what he’d been tasked to endure as coach of the Philadelphia 76ers and the notorious process. A peace that perhaps only he could’ve found. It feels like a long time ago. The 26-game losing streak. The nightly bashing fans had a choice of attending. The worst four-year period of any team in NBA history. That stage of the process was genuinely miserable to endure. So Brown ran. He had to. “Losing fatigues you,” Brown once told me. “You had to fight it.” Six days a week, 45 minutes a day. Sometimes…
David Kinley is Professor of Human Rights Law at Sydney University, Australia. He works in the field of human rights and the global economy, focusing presently on the human rights implications of global finance and corruption. His latest book,Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rightspublished in the US last month (March 2018) by OUP, will be released worldwide in May. The most remarkable thing about financier BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s latest letter exhorting corporate captains to develop a “social conscience” was not the media’s excited response – the NY Times called it “Wall Street’s watershed moment,” and Le Monde, an…
After amassing billions in debt and pushing a bold spending plan, Charif Souki was fired in 2015 by the liquefied natural gas company he founded. Now heading a new developer, he’s changing his plan of attack. Souki’s latest idea is to mostly deal debt out of the picture. The company he chairs, Tellurian Inc., is seeking investors to pay a total of $12 billion up front to fund the proposed Driftwood LNG export terminal in Louisiana. In return, they get a stake in the project and the ability to buy fuel at cost moving forward, with no markup based on…
Greece has suffered more than any European country since the 2007–8 global financial crisis. The governments that have held power between 2010 and 2018 have enacted several rounds of tax increases, spending cuts, and reforms. Austerity measures have triggered both local riots and nationwide protests. The uncertainty and economic decline that has plagued Greece has affected all spheres of society, but education has been particularly hard hit. Public spending has shrunk by 40 percent, and more than one hundred schools, as well as a number of university departments, have closed. Many Greek youth decide not to study at all or…
Imagine being an ambitious fresh graduate interviewing for a job 15 years ago. Recruiters would have asked about your degree programme, your grades and the nature of your extra-curricular activities. Today, the ante has been raised. New, additional demands are increasingly common. What overseas experience do you have? How did you value-add to the organisation you interned at? Do you have experience working with data? Are you agile enough to cope with change? Recruiters are now looking for demonstrations of aptitude that go beyond good grades. The Ministry of Education has recognised this and introduced policies to prepare future graduates…
While public sector banks are facing high accretion of non-performing assets (NPAs) in the education loans, leading to a marked slowdown in growth, non-banking finance companies (NBFC) are expanding their education loan books. Notably, over the last few years, several standalone education loan companies have come-up, and many of them are experimenting with new products too. Further, by adopting a student-led approach, which includes an overall academic screening of students, NBFCs are redefining the norms of education loan lending. Data from Reserve Bank of India shows, as on February 2018, total education loan outstanding stood at Rs 705 billion, against Rs 720 billion in February 2017, a fall of 2 per cent. At present,…