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Gas-burning stoves in kitchens across America may pose a greater risk to the planet and public health than previously thought, new research suggests.   The appliances release far more of the potent planet-warming gas methane than the Environmental Protection Agency estimates, Stanford University scientists found in a study published Thursday in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. The appliances also emit significant amounts of nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant that can trigger asthma and other respiratory conditions. Scientists and climate activists have increasingly urged homeowners to switch to all-electric stoves, water boilers and other appliances, even as the natural gas industry fights in New York and across the country to keep the signature blue flames of gas-burning stoves as a staple in American homes. The researchers in Thursday’s study measured emissions from stoves in 53 homes across seven California counties. They used their findings to estimate that methane ...

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction Available on: PC, Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna. When “Rainbow Six Extraction” was first revealed in 2021, the reaction of the Launcher team was skepticism and boredom — if even that. Mostly, it didn’t register at all. A Tom Clancy player-versus-everything game in which teams fight black goo? Yawn. In that moment, watching the premiere E3 2021 trailer, I could not have possibly imagined that I would ever write the sentence that I am writing right now, telling you, the reader, that “Extraction” was not only undeserving of our scorn but is actually quite excellent. https://youtu.be/Da668e8e5Os “Extraction” suffers from the opposite issue of a game like “Call of Duty: Vanguard.” The latter title is gorgeous, but as with the idyllic setting of a postmodern horror film, the closer you look, the more apparent it is how dead, dull and evil everything is. “Extraction,” on the other hand, is vis...

The social media giant’s shuttering of the Diem project followed clashes over its direction and sustained opposition in Washington. A popular mantra in Silicon Valley is “fail fast.” It took Facebook less than three years to fail in its high-profile cryptocurrency project. Facebook’s shuttering of the project came in response to internal clashes over its direction and sustained opposition in Washington, according to four people familiar with the effort who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive matters. The company has had previous failures and product shutdowns, most notably an effort to build a smartphone a decade ago. But the decision to fold the project called Diem is the first that appears to relate directly to regulatory pushback, suggesting that bringing future products to market in heavily regulated spaces will be an uphill battle, the people said. That could complicate Facebook’s plans for its virtual reality metaverse. The failure comes as crypto becomes mo...

Activision Blizzard did not respond to workers’ request for recognition of a union formed by quality assurance testers at Raven Software, the workers said Tuesday evening. Last week, 34 quality assurance workers seeking to unionize at Raven had set a deadline of 6 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday for a response from the software developer’s parent company and will now proceed to file for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).   The 34 workers at Madison, Wisconsin-based Raven say they have a supermajority of votes within their department, meaning they can formalize their union via the NLRB without management recognition at Activision Blizzard. If the union, dubbed the Game Workers Alliance, wins 50 percent plus one of the votes within the department, Activision Blizzard must begin bargaining with the group over work conditions in good faith. Most of the testers work on the popular game “Call of Duty: Warzone” and had been working toward unionization for months. T...

Ortiz’s candidacy was no less complicated than those of Bonds and Clemens. Ortiz spent most of his career as a DH, meaning he rarely played the field. Among Hall of Famers, only Harold Baines, Edgar Martinez, Paul Molitor and Frank Thomas can say the same. Ortiz hit more home runs (541) than any of them, and his on-base-plus-slugging percentage (.931) is just two points lower than Martinez’s.   Ortiz’s name was on a list of players who came up positive for performance-enhancing drugs when MLB tested players, supposedly anonymously, before implementing a drug policy a year later. Ortiz never tested positive afterward, and he spent the next decade taking some of the most memorable and meaningful swings in Red Sox history. “You don’t know what anybody tested positive for,” Ortiz said when asked about that test. “… I never failed a drug test [after the testing policy was put in place in 2004]. What does that tell you?”. Alex Rodriguez, one of the best shortstops of all time and who acc...

At Kandahar’s Mirwais Hospital, the pediatrics ward is filled with skeletal babies suffering from acute malnutrition. As many as five children are in each bed. Others are sprawled on the floor. “It’s the sheer levels of desperation that we’re seeing in people,” said Vicki Aken, Afghanistan director of the International Rescue Committee. “The humanitarian situation seems to be going from bad to worse.” Over 22 million people, more than half the country’s population, are facing crisis-levels of hunger, the majority of them unable to guarantee when their next meal is going to be, according to the U.N. World Food Program. This marks a dramatic increase since September, when more than 14 million people were at risk of going hungry. The organization also estimated that in December, 95 percent of the population had insufficient food consumption, adopting measures to cope with their situation by skipping a meal, for example. Since October 2020, when drought struck Afghanistan, the situation ha...

Nigerian Afropop singer, Adekunle Gold has finally unveiled the tracklist to his highly anticipated project, ‘Catch Me If You Can’.   Adekunle Gold to his Instagram page to share a video of the tracklist to his album; he wrote: How long it took to finalize the TRACKLIST is unforgivable(sorry to my team) but all passengers are boarded and we are ready to take flight. Buckle up, It’s about to be a movie. https://www.instagram.com/adekunlegold/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=b405628f-8036-4d35-81dc-ae6964f57453&ig_mid=B1570CDE-8A80-4D70-B232-311A7FB6810D The upcoming album, ‘Catch Me If You Can’ is to be released on 4th February 2022. The album consists of 13 tracks and features American singers Ty Dolla Sign, Lucky Daye, Fousheé, British-Jamaican rapper Stefflon Don, Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, and Davido. In addition, the forthcoming project will be his 4th studio project, his last album was Afropop Vol. 1 which was released in 2020. Drop your comment in the comments box an...

Nigerian most popular musician and icon in the music industry, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo otherwise known popularly as D’Banj is out with his own perfume brand.   His perfume is actually named after him ”D’Banj Perfume“. This fragrance brand was unveiled in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. The singer, businessman and head founder of Koko Foundation for Youths and Peace Development was seen in videos displaying the perfume in Dubai. The D’Banj perfume was produced also in the United Arab Emirates. He also talked about the perfume and revealed on HipTv how his fans can get his perfume for as low as N100. https://youtu.be/PkLt3odCyeQ

Nigeria singer, Kizz Daniel in an interview with TheWill Downtown Magazine, reacted to the call-out on Social Media about his ‘cabal’ tweet. Kizz Daniel reacted to the recent call-out on social media on the cover of TheWill Downtown Magazine’s latest issue which was released on Sunday, the 9th of January 2022. Kizz Daniel said; "First of all, I have no clue who this person is and I’ve never heard of him in my life. Concerning the tweet, it wasn’t personal. What happened exactly was someone showed me a tweet from a colleague complaining about an artist not being nominated for an international award—and this colleague had a strong argument. The artist in question had a more significant impact on the international scene than the artists on the list but he wasn’t there. Why do we always have to lobby before we get nominated for an award? Do you get what I’m saying? It’s a cabal. Na people wey you know. I wish I could say more but I can’t. But it’s the truth and the industry knows. I d...