Upheaval

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty‘s core campaign is overflowing with missions, loot, and more that provide tons of playtime for the average player, but that hasn’t stopped Team Ninja from adding even more into the game with a thrilling trio of DLCs. The game’s final piece of downloadable content comes by way of the Upheaval of Jingxiang, providing fresh main and sub-missions, a brand-new Whip weapon to use, and an even harder difficulty for true enthusiasts to clear. If you’re ready to dive in and see how Team Ninja is…

Sach Chitnis is co-founder of Jump Capital, a thesis-led, sector-focused and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed and Series A investments. With the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, founders find themselves in a predicament when looking to raise either equity or debt. Most companies run their business on equity capital alone and have access to a venture debt facility. Access to venture debt is a “break glass in case of emergency” facility in that it enables…

United Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant on Sept. 25, 2019 in Detroit.Michael Wayland / CNBCDETROIT – As the United Auto Workers prepares for what are expected to be highly contentious negotiations with the Detroit automakers later this year, the union's leadership is undergoing its largest upheaval in decades.The shuffle follows a yearslong federal investigation that uncovered systemic corruption involving bribery, embezzlement and other crimes among the top…

Twitter layoffs include leaders of employee resource groups, while Musk’s plan to require office attendance is a blow to minority workers. Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter Inc. and mass layoffs at the company stand to bring major setbacks for diversity and inclusion at the social-media platform. In his first week as owner, the billionaire fired Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal, who had been a supporter of Twitter's employee resource groups, and rolled back a “work from anywhere” policy that opened the company…

It is unusual for a book that foresees billions of people displaced by the climate crisis to be optimistic. Yet that’s the tone Gaia Vince strikes in Nomad Century. “We are facing a species emergency – but we can manage it,” she writes, “with a planned and deliberate migration of the kind humanity has never before undertaken.”Vince, an environmental journalist, stresses that climate displacement is already under way, with people fleeing parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions, though…

Gaia Vince’s new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet, because it lays out, much more clearly than any existing scientific assessment, the world we are creating through global heating. Nomad Century is the much-anticipated follow-up to Vince’s award-winning book, Adventures in the Anthropocene, which explained how human impacts on Earth have created a new geological epoch. In this new work, the author makes the pessimistic, but entirely plausible, assumption that by the end…

The world’s biggest tech companies just had one of their most tumultuous earnings periods in years, highlighting the breadth of the economic slowdown and how business conditions have rapidly deteriorated in recent months. Newsletter Sign-up Technology A weekly digest of tech reviews, headlines,…

Singapore, Amid the global crypto meltdown, Singapore, which has a clear licensing and regulatory framework, is going to act tough on crypto platforms in the coming months, a top Monetary Authority of Singapore (Mas) executive said on Tuesday.MAS Managing Director Ravi Menon said that the key lesson from the upheaval in the global crypto industry is clear: Investing in cryptocurrencies is highly risky."MAS and relevant government agencies will take firm enforcement action if any entity is found to be conducting illegal…

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has warned the public from using cryptocurrencies amid the grave economic crisis in the country, saying that this market is "largely unregulated".The bank, CBSL, said in a notice that the public is "warned of the possible exposure to significant financial, operational, legal and security related risks as well as customer protection concerns posed to the users by investments in Virtual Currencies (VCs)".The public is also warned not to fall prey to various types of VC schemes offered through…

India needs to work on the artificial intelligence mechanism "extremely carefully" and it must be ready to face legal, ethical, political and economic upheaval that may follow due to this technology, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday. "We have to use artificial intelligence (AI) for humanity's progress and peace. It should not be the case that a country or a group of countries establish their dominance on this technology -- just like nuclear power -- and the remaining countries are not able to enjoy the fruits…