The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen moments before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California in this Oct. 8, 2026, photograph. Aboard were NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 members NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. The four spent […]
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Exam-rigging suspects freed as investigators miss deadline
Three key suspects in the civil service exam-rigging scandal were released from prison on Friday after the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) failed to complete the investigation that would have supported their prosecution.
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Bond market turmoil keeps lid on equity gains
RECAP: Asian stocks were mixed on Friday as investors fretted about bond market turmoil and the sustainability of the AI investment boom, while support came from a drop in oil prices after US President Donald Trump ruled out a pre-election strike on Iran.
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High‑tech industries to shift labour force
New investments promising to create jobs may not always deliver broad employment opportunities in Thailand, warns Tanit Sorat, vice‑chairman of the Employers' Confederation of Thai Trade and Industry.
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When Paradox announced their post-apocalyptic North American grand strategy game Afterworld, I made the obvious comparison to Fallout. For this I should be chained to the fender of a war rig and pelted with scoops of radioactive dogfood, while being slowly driven through a pack of three-headed coyotes. In a new dev diary, Afterworld's content designer and "elder lore keeper" Luke Bean has gone into some detail about the game's setting, explaining that Afterworld owes more to study of the Bronze Age collapse than any Vault Tech malarkey. The continent's diverging tribes are also apparently far more estranged from and mystified by the "ancients" than their peers in Bethesda's RPGs.
"The people of this world aren't Americans exactly," Bean began. "They are people who remember the Americans. America was an ancient empire to them, sort of the way the Roman Empire was for us, and they live in the shadow of that history. The people know that there was this time full of powerful and mysterious science. They think of the ancients – us – as people who could do anything they wanted with science. And so the central mystery of the past to them is if the ancients could do anything they wanted, why'd they all die? They must have wanted to die."
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PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles are more expensive than ever in most markets, thanks largely to memory components being gobbled up by AI data centres. Now, analyst Mat Piscatella worries the console market, at least in the US, hasn't looked this dire since the early 1980s, which was maybe not-so-coincidentally when the industry absolutely collapsed. Read more
