Romanian diocese building five houses for flood victims
Satu-Mare County, Romania, August 24, 2021 Photo: Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Maramureș and Satu-Mare The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Maramureș and Satu-Mare has already completed two…
9 bishops, 220 clergymen, thousands of faithful gather for feast at Ukrainian lavra (+VIDEOS)
Svyatogorsk, Ukraine, August 25, 2021 svlavra.church.ua The feast of St. John the Recluse and Wonderworker of Svyatogorsk (+1867) drew thousands of Orthodox faithful and hundreds of…
Metropolitan Onuphry leads glorification of 20th-century hierarch
Zhytomyr, Ukraine, August 25, 2021 Facebook A festive Divine service was held in Zhytomyr today, on the feast of the Synaxis of the Saints of Zhytomyr,…
New hermitage of renowned Putna Monastery consecrated in Romania
Mestecăniș, Suceava County, Romania, August 25, 2021 arhiepiscopiasucevei.ro A new monastic settlement in the Romanian Orthodox Church was consecrated on Sunday, thus offering yet another place…
Stolen 18th-century Royal Doors repatriated to Cyprus from Japan
Peristeronopigi, Cyprus, August 25, 2021 mcw.gov.cy One of the most interesting and complex cases of repatriation has come to an end with the return of a…
Nirvana baby sues band alleging child pornography
The iconic nude baby photographed for the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind album is all grown up and suing the band, alleging the image violates child pornography laws….
Options Bae, Put Gang, and the new stock communities showing amateur traders how to make bank
In the spring of 2020, Alaina Bradley was working in the collections department at a storage facility in eastern Tennessee. She was already pretty miserable before, but…
Halo Infinite is launching on December 8th
Halo Infinite, the next game in Microsoft’s long-running franchise, will launch on December 8th. The date appeared on the Microsoft Store today and a source familiar with…
Extinction Rebellion demo left 120 tonnes of rubbish on London’s streets, say council chiefs
This week, they also blocked the entrance to Selfridge’s in nearby Oxford Street to demonstrate against clothes production, which they claim is damaging the environment. Protesters daubed…
Care homes hire double-jabbed foreign workers as staffing crisis looms
Care homes are hiring double-jabbed foreign workers to “plug the gap” of staff planning to quit ahead of the mandatory vaccination deadline. The Department for Health and…
The company behind PUBG is trying to create the next big fantasy epic
Krafton is best known as the company behind PUBG, taking the scrappy battle royale and turning it into something much bigger thanks to mobile versions, surprisingly expansive…
Just four in 1,000 double vaccinated returning holidaymakers testing positive for Covid
Just four in 1,000 double jabbed holidaymakers are testing positive for Covid on their return to Britain, according to new research, as MPs called for costly PCR…
Fitbit’s new Charge 5 has a rounded design and a color screen
Following a couple of big leaks, Fitbit is officially announcing the Charge 5, the company’s latest fitness tracker, and it marks one of the biggest design changes…
Refugees housed in hotel where Afghan boy fell to his death despite ‘multiple fire risks’
They included unsafe cladding, an unsuitable fire safety risk assessment, inadequate evacuation procedures, structural and passive fire precautions not suitably maintained and a fire alarm system that…
Nicola Sturgeon’s NHS recovery plan could backfire, warn doctors
Nicola Sturgeon’s NHS recovery plan to clear the huge treatment backlog that has built up during the pandemic risks backfiring by making chronic staff shortages even worse,…
Several Best Buy stores will have Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs available tomorrow
Nvidia’s RTX 30-series graphics cards are next to impossible to find in stock, but Best Buy is offering PC gamers an opportunity to buy one on Thursday,…
How to remove (but not delete) unneeded Google contacts
My friend (and occasional writer for The Verge) JR Raphael has a newsletter in which he recently wrote about cleaning up your Google Contacts list by deleting…
Netflix’s ‘Tudum’ fan event will bring trailers, interviews, and announcements for its originals on September 25th
Netflix is hosting its own online fan event for the first time on September 25h. The event is called “Tudum” (as in the onomatopoeia of Netflix’s iconic…
The PS5 and Xbox Series X are available from Walmart (update: sold out)
Update August 25th, 1:06PM ET: Walmart appears to have sold out of the Xbox Series X and both iterations of the PS5 for the day. We’ll make…
Controversial crypto rules remain in infrastructure bill after House vote
Controversial new cryptocurrency tax requirements are likely to become law through the bipartisan infrastructure bill. The cryptocurrency community rallied to fix the language, but the House voted…
Rising electricity demand is keeping coal alive
As people ventured out from their pandemic cocoons this year, they gobbled up more electricity than they did before COVID-19 shut the world down. But there still…
Ex-CEO of Silicon Valley mobile app startup HeadSpin charged with fraud
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Most US government agencies are using facial recognition
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that 19 of the 24 US government agencies surveyed are using facial recognition in some way, illustrating…
Airbnb says it will temporarily house 20,000 Afghan refugees
Airbnb and Airbnb.org announced on Tuesday that they will temporarily house 20,000 Afghan refugees for free. The effort, an evolution of the home renting platform’s “Frontline stays”…
Saints Row is getting a reboot that’ll be out in February 2022
As teased by Geoff Keighley last week, Saints Row is the next video game series to get a reboot. Developer Volition has announced that the newest title,…