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The Pride of the Thunderfoot Tribe During a recent visit to Capcom’s European HQ, I was afforded the opportunity to check out the Arcade Mode adventure for Lily, one of the many exciting newcomers headed to incoming scrapper Street Fighter 6. I was able to take a look at the Thunderfoot princess’ narrative, engage in a few battles, and even lock horns with a mighty Truck in the sequel’s returning Bonus Round. Lily is a descendant of Mexico’s Thunderfoot Tribe, the same clan that previously brought us the Super Street…

Ben Sand has flown to Santa Clara, California, to get his money back.The founder of Sydney AI training start-up Strong Compute had transferred a “material” amount of his company’s cash into Silicon Valley Bank just last week to fuel its American operations before the bank began to teeter on Thursday and collapsed on Saturday Australian time.Ben Sand, chief executive and founder of Strong Compute, is heading to America to get his money back.Credit:James Alcock“Literally, it arrived the day before this happened,” Sand…

An artist’s depiction of the Hakuto-R lander on the Moon.Illustration: ispaceThe Hakuto-R spacecraft won’t land on the Moon until April, but the private mission is already in the record books. Tokyo-based company ispace developed the lunar spacecraft and lander with the aim of becoming the first private mission to successfully land on the Moon. During its long journey to the Moon, Hakuto-R got as far as 855,000 miles (1.376 million kilometers) away from Earth on January 20. That distance made the Japanese lunar spacecraft…

A senior Treasury Department official recently traveled to Beijing, according to people familiar with the matter, in a sign of continued diplomacy despite recent tensions between the U.S. and China.Robert Kaproth, a deputy assistant secretary focused on Asia, met last week with Chinese counterparts for technical, staff-level discussions on macroeconomic and financial issues, the people said. The meetings came during a delicate time in the U.S.-China relationship. The two superpowers last year agreed to restart high-level…

Between 1996 and 2000, NASA Hubble captured a number of images of Saturn to study how the gas giant's rings change as it travels around the Sun for 29 years. Similar to Earth's 23-degree tilt, Saturn's…

When I travel with my MacBook Pro, I like to bring a mouse with me. As great as Apple’s trackpads are, nothing beats the precision and comfort of one of the best mice for Mac. But I’ll admit this setup has some serious problems: Take a full-size mouse and it’s bulky, but take a travel mouse and it’s uncomfortably tiny. There might be a solution, if you believe what you read on a new Kickstarter campaign. Aside from having a rather inelegant name, the Air.0 mouse believes it can offer the best of both worlds for…

A tiny bug manipulates the behavior of its hosts to ensure its unlikely life cycle Credit: Daisy ChungAdvertisement Parasites give new meaning to the cliché “eat or be eaten.” Often their life cycle can be completed only if they are ingested by a host—multiple times for some—making the odds of their survival seemingly minuscule. To improve their chances, certain parasites manipulate their hosts' behavior to make it more likely the eater will get eaten. The parasitic cestode Schistocephalus solidus requires a much…

A fun bit of news to get us started: the DIE RPG has an actual play(test) available on YouTube featuring writer/designer Kieron Gillen. Also, a fun little note, we’ve got some great magazines publishing RPG content—check out the new issues of Indiepocalypse and Arcadia for that sweet sweet game content!Feral Indie Studio, a TTRPG publisher comprised of the two-person team of Charles Ferguson-Avery and Alex Coggon, has been quietly putting out great games for years. The duo has done supplements, small games, and…

Imagine travelling in a train that’s three times faster than the famed Bullet Train. A Canadian startup recently unveiled the FluxJet, a hybrid between an aircraft and a train, capable of riding at more than 621 mph sans emissions. That’s a little quicker than the average private jet or about three times faster than a high-speed train. The plane without wings, as the company TransPod calls it, is based on a new field of physics called “veillance flux” and features an innovative “contactless power transmission”. It is also…

People doing an all-India bike trip is not a new thing. We have seen videos of several vloggers and riders who have done such trips in the past. There are a set of riders who like to do such trips for a cause, here we have one such family from Kerala who are currently on their way to Jammu-Kashmir. The family of four from Kerala had started the all-India trip on their Royal Enfield Classic and Yezdi Adventure motorcycle on July 16. The family is doing this trip as a tribute to the Indian Army. You can follow the…