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Walt Disney Co. has canceled its plan to open a new Florida campus that would’ve relocated some 2,000 employees to the state, a change that comes as the company is engaged in a long brawl with the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. The company in July 2021 said it planned to move staffers, including many theme park designers (known as Imagineers) and consumer products workers, to new office space in the Orlando community of Lake Nona to take advantage of roughly $570 million in tax breaks. Josh D’Amaro, chairman…

Cinderella Castle in Walt Disney World.Roberto Machado Noa | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesDisney has abandoned plans to open up a new employee campus in Lake Nona, Florida, amid rising tensions with the state's governor.Citing "changing business conditions" and the return of CEO Bob Iger, Josh D'Amaro, chairman of Disney's parks, experiences and products division, penned a memo to employees Thursday, announcing that the company will not move forward with construction of the campus and will no longer be asking more than 2,000…

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart leads the pack of new titles coming to the PlayStation Plus Extra and Deluxe/ Premium catalogue, this month. Starting May 16, all higher-tier PS Plus subscribers will gain access to Insomniac's inter-dimensional platformer, where you summon portals to bounce between planets and gun down alien pirates in an effort to thwart the evil emperor. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be available to play on the PS5. Developer Arkane might've started the year on a rough note with Redfall's dismal…

PlayStation Plus Premium will give players access to a library of classic PlayStation, PS2, and PS3 titles starting this June, which is exciting as the PS5 only is backward compatible with the PS4 currently. Unfortunately, it comes with a caveat: All PS3 games must be streamed from the cloud and can't be played natively on the console.We're over 15 years removed from the PS3's launch, and there's still no good way to play many classic PS3 titles like Infamous or Metal Gear Solid 4 on modern platforms. Sony is content…

Mahindra Thar is one of the most popular 4×4 SUVs in the market. It was launched in 2020, and even now, there is a decent waiting period for this 3-door SUV. It is one of the most affordable 4×4 SUVs that one can buy in the country. As we write this article, Mahindra is currently working on a more practical 5-door version of Mahindra Thar, which is expected to be launched in the market later this year. We have come across several videos on the internet where Mahindra Thar has showcased its capabilities. Just like any…

Every year, farmers fertilize their crops with nitrogen and phosphorus to ensure a good harvest. And every year some of that fertilizer inevitably makes its way into ponds and lakes, where it can trigger ecosystem-wrecking algal blooms. According to a new study published last month in Science of the Total Environment, though, there may be a relatively simple way to close the loop on this leaky system: using the nutrient-rich lake sediments as fertilizer. “We’d be…

Peering into the borehole of the operation to retrieve sediment and water samples from Mercer Lake. Credit: Kathy Kasic, Billy Collins Subglacial lakes that never see the light of day are among the least accessible frontiers of science, brimming with more tales yet untold than even the planets of our solar system. One thing seems certain: where there is water, there is life—even if said water is at the bottom of a frigid lake,…

A dead fish sits in shallow water on the banks of Lake Mead near the Lake Mead Marina on August 19, 2022 in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Human remains unveiled in Lake Mead’s low water levels last year have finally been identified as a Las Vegas man who went missing years ago, local authorities said this week.Yet Another Storm in California | Extreme EarthThe Clark County coroner’s office identified Claude Russell Pensinger, who was 52 when he died. He went missing in…

Private equity firm Silver Lake has offered to buy Software AG in a deal that values the German business software developer at €2.2 billion ($2.42 billion).The offer price of €30 per share in cash by Silver Lake-controlled Blitz 22-449 SE represents a premium of 53% to Software AG's closing price of €19.59 on Thursday.In February 2022, Silver Lake had invested €344 million euros in the software developer's convertible bond, which upon conversion would represent nearly 9% of issued Software AG shares, the company said in a…

The once famously clear water of California’s Lake Tahoe appears to be on the rebound.In late 2022, the lake was clear to a depth of 81 feet, almost 20 feet deeper than in 2021, according to a report released Monday by the Tahoe Environmental Research Center.The primary cause for the clarity is an abundance of microscopic zooplankton that eat other tiny particles that cloud the lake, researchers said.And the reason there are so many zooplankton is a sudden and unexpected drop in the population of shrimp that eat them,…