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Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma says the gaming giant needs to be “thinking about” affordability for its next-generation console, amid a “crisis” in computing prices.In an interview with the BBC, she said rising hardware costs partly driven by AI spending mean firms need to find ways to make gaming affordable.She also revealed gamers will soon be able to get digital versions of many of the physical games they currently own, potentially meaning their old games can be played on future Xbox consoles without having to put a disc in a drive.”I know players love physical media, and I know there’s…

A fresh outbreak of mpox in Guinea Bissau – the country’s first – means the virus formerly known as monkey pox is back in the headlines. So what has changed?Since 2022, there have been almost 190,000 lab-confirmed cases of mpox reported worldwide in 145 countries. Before then, outbreaks of mpox tended to be relatively small and in a handful of African countries, where the viral infection was known to be endemic.What is mpox?Mpox is an infectious disease that typically starts with flu-like symptoms, including fever, chills and aching muscles. These are followed by a distinctive rash, beginning as raised spots…

Supporters of Enyimba International Football Club of Aba have urged the club’s management to ensure that its ongoing recruitment exercise produces a team capable of securing a continental ticket in the forthcoming Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season. The supporters made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Aba on Tuesday. NAN reports that Enyimba finished the 2025/2026 NPFL season in 11th position with 49 points from 38 matches. The supporters expressed disappointment with the club’s performance last season, saying they expected better results from the former continental champions. One of the supporters, Obinna…

Now Higgins will become matchmaker-in-chief. The former model from County Longford is starting to make a name for herself in the US, having recently been cast in the new series of Dancing With the Stars.Angela Jain, head of content at Disney+ EMEA, said Higgins’ name was a “shortcut” for a tone that is “cheeky, fun, witty, and warm”.”She is a head turner – literally,” Jain told the Edinburgh TV Festival.Higgins first turned heads in 2019 in the Love Island villa with her attempts to get close to fellow contestant Tommy Fury.She went on to appear on other reality TV shows…

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt  The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), the Federal Ministry of Works, the Edo State Government, and other stakeholders have commenced an urgent intervention to address the deplorable condition of the highways between Edo and Delta States. A statement on Wednesday by the Director, Corporate Affairs of NDDC, Seledi Thomspon-Wakama, said the Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, the Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, alongside the Senate Committee and House of Representatives Committee on Works and the NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, embarked on a joint inspection of the failed portions of the Benin-Sapele-Warri and…

Trump insists that Ratcliffe’s surprise visit to Russia is ‘semi-routine’ despite mounting speculationThe president claimed that CIA director John Ratcliffe’s surprise visit to Moscow this week is “semi-routine”.Reports surfaced today, but the Trump administration had not formally announced the trip, but various outlets captured the flight tracking data of the US government jet and the Kremlin later confirmed the meeting – but noted that Ratcliffe did not hold talks with Vladimir Putin, who was informed of the meeting. It was not clear the purpose of the visit, but Trump sought to temper concerns. “I hate to disappoint people,” he said.“Rumors are…

The Federal Reserve, the U.S. Senate, the Department of Justice, NASA, and other federal agencies were victims of computer intrusion by a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, the DOJ said on Wednesday morning as it announced the seizure of online domains used for hacking platforms.The hacking platforms, known as “QScan and QTRouter,” were “used to target U.S. critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks,” the DOJ said in a statement.”Other targeted networks include those operated by hospitals, telecommunications providers, power companies, financial institutions, and defense contractors,” a court filing said. Other federal agencies that were victims of computer intrusion by the platforms…

With these charged alternative transfer RNAs in hand, the researchers confirmed that they were ignored by normal ribosomes. But if you used a ribosome with the corresponding changes that restored base pairing, it would happily make a protein using them. So, the researchers had two different populations of transfer RNAs, each compatible with a different population of ribosomes. They designed a separate genetic code and used the alternative transfer RNAs to implement it. They then designed a messenger RNA that could be translated by both genetic codes, but would produce different proteins depending on which code was being used. They…

President Trump had seemed to be in danger of taking a major defeat on Tuesday night.His choice for Senate in South Carolina, Darline Graham, had admitted at a debate that she wasn’t “that informed on national security.” Mr. Trump’s so-far-stingy super PAC was forced to spend more than $800,000 to help her. Many South Carolina Republicans expected her to lose, in what would have been the president’s first defeat in a Senate primary all year.Instead, as Mr. Trump has done often since his rise to power a decade ago, he defied electoral expectations.Ms. Graham’s narrow primary runoff victory on Tuesday…

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