Top 10 across all platforms. What are the top 3? We’re already halfway through January 2023 and time flies, but looking back to 2022 is so much fun. Thanks to the NPD Group, we now have a list of the best-selling games in the US from last year. We got another one recently at Daily […]
Rutte tells Biden about ASML: ‘China export ban is devastating’
Chip machine manufacturer ASML in Veldhoven is increasingly looking like a plaything in the geopolitical game between the US and China. Prime Minister Rutte will speak with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday. Commitment to Americans: Export ban on chip machines to China “It would be devastating for ASML,” said Paul Verhagen, a high-tech warfare […]
Rutte talks to Biden about ASML
Chip machine manufacturer ASML in Veldhoven is increasingly looking like a plaything in the geopolitical game between the US and China. Prime Minister Rutte will speak with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday. Commitment to Americans: Export ban on chip machines to China “It would be devastating for ASML,” said Paul Verhagen, a high-tech warfare […]
Miss Universe is returning from America for the first time since Olivia Culpo
Olivia Culpo (left) and her successor R’Bonney Gabriel (right) (Image: AP/ANP) R’Bonney Gabriel, 28, was crowned the new Miss Universe in New Orleans. She is the first American to win the crown since Olivia Culpo, who won the Most Beautiful Woman in the Universe award in 2012. R’Bonney Gabriel won the competition from 83 women, […]
The US government wants fewer electric cars
In the Netherlands, cities such as Amsterdam are leading the way with plans to allow only electric cars by 2030. In the US, progressive states like New York and California have similar objectives. Democratic-majority states want to ban sales of combustion engine cars by 2035. The Republican state of Wyoming is now opting to move […]
Economists still believe in a US recession
(ABM FN-Dow Jones) Despite cooling inflation in the US, economists expect a recession this year. This was revealed this weekend in the Wall Street Journal’s quarterly survey of economists. The probability of a recession in the next 12 months is now estimated by those surveyed at 61 percent. It was 63 percent in October last […]
One of America’s Biggest Universities Teaches Students About Bitcoin
Texas A&M University, one of the largest universities in the US with 74,000 students, has started offering courses on Bitcoin. The exciting news was announced on January 13 by Korok Ray, a professor at the Texas A&M Business School. =https://twitter.com/KorokRay/status/1613663285039042564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1613663285039042564%7Ctwgr%5Eb82b89a267ab09c63e6c508a118b9edf3370349e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcointelegraph.com%2Fnews%2Fone -of-the-largest-us-colleges-has-begun-teaching-students-about-bitcoin” data-service=”twitter”> The Book of Jimmy Song The idea is to follow Jimmy Chang’s book […]
More money for road maintenance is an uncomfortable note column
During my time as a reporter in the US, it was a regular conversation with visitors from the Netherlands: the poor state of the US road network. For example, I once reported in detail how thirteen people died when an eight-lane road bridge collapsed over the Mississippi near Minneapolis. With a certain self-satisfaction, ‘we’ the […]
F1 is growing in popularity in the US, but Sgt Williams doesn’t owe the nation a seat
Logan Sargent doesn’t think he owes his Formula 1 seat to his nationality. The American will make his Williams debut next season and will do so in time for the game boom is in America. The 22-year-old doubts whether that influenced his team’s selection. “Ultimately I feel like I’ve worked as hard as anybody to […]
Why are ice storms so severe in the US and Canada?
A winter storm brought wind chills and whiteout conditions to over 30 degrees below zero in eastern Iowa.Image by AP With wind chill temperatures as low as -45 degrees Celsius, North America shivers towards Christmas. Many Americans filmed themselves throwing boiling water into the air on Friday. Within a second of leaving the pan, the […]