France and Germany stifle their spats to celebrate a 60-year friendship — The war in Ukraine puts a testy partnership under stress [The Economist]
What do electric vehicles tell us about the future of American industry? [The Economist Podcasts]
Gift a Subscription [Harvard Business Review]
How eating oysters could help protect the coast [BBC News]
Is Germany Letting Ukraine Down? It’s Not That Simple [Bloomberg]
California deluged: Scenes from weeks of relentless rain [Reuters]
Huge crowds in Israel again protest Netanyahu’s legal changes — More than 100,000 people rally in Tel Aviv for a third week to protest against legal changes that could weaken the Israeli Supreme Court. [AL-Jazeera News]
How “Battle Royale” Took Over Video Games [New Yorker]
Don’t forget about Persona 3 / P3 and its successor Persona 4 are both getting a wide release on console, bringing some great RPGs to a new audience. [The Verge]
How scientists discovered the universe is really freaking huge [Vox]
This Week in Apps: Twitter kills third-party apps, Instagram adds Quiet Mode, Google’s antitrust trial gets a date [TechCrunch]
Hydrogen-powered planes take off with startup’s test flight [MIT Technology Review]
Some Google workers who've been laid off earned as much as $1 million a year, report says [Insider] can you imagine not even having a six figures salary, yet these guys were making $1 million a year? #IncomeInequality
As we leap into the Year of the Rabbit 🐰, we wish you and your loved ones an abundance of good health and fortune. 🧧 Gong Xi Fa Cai! [LinkedIn] #SAP
Proud Boys on defensive at sedition trial haunted by absent Trump [The Guardian]
Zelensky Urges Ukrainians to Remain Unified [New York Times]
Brazil's Lula Works To Reverse Amazon Deforestation [Huffington Post]
How Did Tech Become America’s Most Troubled Industry? [The Atlantic]
Club Soccer Predictions [FiveThirtyEight]
How 10,000 sheep and their Peruvian handlers trek 300 miles across the hills of Wyoming [The Washington Post]
« Pendant les premiers siècles de l’islam, il existait plusieurs versions du Coran » — Quand le Coran a-t-il été mis par écrit ? N’y a-t-il d’ailleurs toujours eu qu’un seul Coran ? Quelles sont ses influences littéraires, culturelles ou religieuses ? L’historien Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi revient aux sources de l’énigmatique livre sacré de l’islam, dans un entretien au « Monde ». [Le Monde]
An enormous Martian cloud returns every spring. Scientists found out why. [Mashable]
Former Cop Union Boss Who Shared Racist Video Stole $600K From Cop Union [VICE News]
“We’re Going to Where the Fight is”: Abortion Rights Movement Sets Its Sights on Key States [The Intercept_]
How was Rome founded? Not in a day, and not by twins. [National Geographic]
Biden is getting a new chief of staff. Jeff Zients will replace Ron Klain [NPR]
Therapy by chatbot? The promise and challenges in using AI for mental health [CapRadioNews]
En Russie, le mot « guerre » n’est plus tabou [Le Monde diplomatique]
Could Fusion Overcome Public Opposition to Nuclear Power? [Foreign Policy]
The Taiwan Long Game — Why the Best Solution Is No Solution [Foreign Affairs]
How Is Travel Changing in Post-Pandemic Asia? [The Diplomat]
2022’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Math [Quanta Magazine]
Dans la #PhotoDeLaSemaine d'aujourd'hui, nous voyons une coupe 3D d'un aimant dipolaire du Large Hadron Collider (#LHC), contenant deux tubes à ultravide dans lesquels les protons circulent dans des directions opposées. En savoir plus : [CERN_FR]
NASA Recaps Webb Telescope Findings From AAS Meeting [NASA]

BLOGPOST UPDATE IN PROGRESS

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 730 & BENKYO RADIO 730.

Now, I have some excellent news. By some divine intervention, I was able to procure a Playstation 5. What an amazing system. The graphics are definitely better than the PS4 (although for the 4K HDR feature, you need a 4K HDR TV), but the best feature are the load times. Every videogame seems to load much faster. Many load up instantaneously. Now unfortunately, there are some caveat. You need to purchase the system, which is between $500-$700 depending on the bundle. Then, you need some extra controllers for multiplayer. A HD camera for games like Just Dance 2023. Then, the original hard drive is pathetic, therefore you need to get a 2 TBs M.2 SSD. Then, the PS5 looks awfully white, and I don’t mean innocent white, I mean it looks like White Nationalist white. I bought some black plate covers from dbrand called Darkplates 2.0. I have two original PS5 controllers. They even work with your PC on Steam. For my third controller, I bought the Midnight Black version (which I use as my main controller). The amazing feature is that you can download pretty much most of your PS4 game collection onto your new PS5 system, and it also plays most PS4 game blurays. You also should invest in a headset, but the good news is that you already own a Razer Bluetooth headset for example, it will work on your PS5. All in all, it’s a great machine, and I can’t wait to play games such as Need For Speed: Unbound, Gotham Knights, and play Gran Turismo 7 using the full power of the Playstation 5.

Until Next Time!