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Tom GerkenTechnology reporter Konami EVA, one of the main characters in the remade game (image brightened from source) Metal Gear is one of the best-selling video game series in history, shifting more than 60 million copies. The series pioneered cinematics in gaming by blending cutting-edge cutscenes, voice acting and dynamic camera angles to create something that would have looked more …

Credit: Pixabay. In the late 1980s, when Switzerland was just beginning to experiment with solar power, engineers bolted a few shiny panels onto rooftops, mountain stations, and even utility-scale farms. They probably didn’t expect those panels to still be humming along more than three decades later. But that’s exactly what a new study shows. Researchers from Switzerland, Austria, and Germany …

A Morbid Memory Lingers 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina  The New York Times Lessons ‘unlearned’: 20 years after Katrina, disaster readiness lags in US  Al Jazeera Katrina inspired a $3B wetlands rebuilding project. Louisiana just killed it.  Politico From Katrina to Colorado: Cajun restaurant owner honors the resilience of New Orleans one bowl of gumbo at a time  Colorado Public Radio ‘Put Those Damn …

Let’s not bury the lede: “After the Hunt” gives Julia Roberts her best film role in at least 20 years. That’s both a big statement — two decades is a long time by any standard, an eternity in movie-star years — and fainter praise than it should be for a star of Roberts’ stature. In Luca Guadagnino‘s charged, sure-to-be-debate-stirring moral …

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, survivors can still describe in detail what they faced in the days after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast. In New Orleans, many initially thought they had escaped the worst, that is, until the storm surge overwhelmed the levees, breaking the city’s floodwalls. As the days went on, the situation became worse and worse. Hurricane …

Mental Health Disorders Slash Life Expectancy By Up To 20 Years  Study Finds Report indicates some mental conditions raise heart disease risk, mortality rate by nearly 100%  Medical Xpress Heart disease and depression: A two way street  Harvard Health Mental disorders may double risk of early death: Study | Tap to know more | Inshorts  Inshorts Depression, schizophrenia may increase heart disease, death risk …

Earth’s history is divided up into different geological wedges of time, wedges we like to call things like epochs, periods, and eons. They’re defined by events that shaped the planet (think big extinctions and biodiversity booms), and it’s generally been accepted that the boundaries between them are randomly distributed.  The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign …

Oldboy and The Handmaiden director Park Chan-wook has premiered a “bleakly hilarious” comedy about economic anxiety at the Venice Film Festival, and it could be a huge international hit. In 2019, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to awestruck acclaim, and went onto be an Oscar-winning international hit. No Other Choice could be this year’s equivalent. The …

By ALICE WRIGHT, US CONSUMER REPORTER Published: 04:04, 30 August 2025 | Updated: 13:30, 30 August 2025 Las Vegas hotels are rolling out big incentives — including free nights and thousands of dollars in casino credits — to lure visitors back to the city.  Sin City saw an 11.3 percent drop in visitors in June compared with the same month …

Travelers may pay the cheapest Labor Day gas prices in 5 years. Here’s the reason why.  MarketWatch Trump energy plan delivers lowest Labor Day gas prices in years  Mid Hudson News Labor Day weekend sees cheapest gas prices since pandemic, with national average at $3.15  KOMO EIA: US retail gasoline prices lower than last year heading into Labor Day  Ethanol Producer Magazine Oregon drivers …