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Xbox Has ‘Explored’ Using Activision For Future Halo Games, Suggests Rumour
Halo Contractors Involved by Craig Reid Mon 17th Aug 2026 It's been a few weeks since Halo: Campaign Evolved launched to a generally positive, but somewhat mixed reception - mostly attributed to its troubled development and lack of multiplayer. Now, the rumour mill has spun up claims that Microsoft is exploring plans to outsource parts
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What Bird Song Can Tell Us About the Nature of Dreams
Toy trumpets and cartoon lasers from old video games: This is the sound of zebra finch song. The birds weave a noisy rhythmic chatter of beeps and clicks and trills into complex melodies for courting lifelong mates and coordinating social time. Young birds learn tunes much like babies learn to talk—by mimicking adults and then
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How climate change created a new ‘Ice Silk Road’ in the Arctic
August 17, 2026 3 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm China plans to send container ships along Russia’s northern coast, reviving environmental concerns about the fragile polar region By Tom Metcalfe edited by Claire Cameron A Chinese shipowner is set to begin the first weekly container service through the Arctic on an express
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USS Benfold was powerless for four days in South China Sea after engineering failure
A US Navy destroyer spent four days without power in the South China Sea after an engineering failure disrupted essential services aboard the vessel last month. The USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, was conducting routine Indo-Pacific operations on July 24 when it suffered an “engineering casualty involving its generators,” US 7th Fleet spokesperson
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Xbox Has ‘Explored’ Using Activision For Future Halo Games, Suggests Rumour
Halo Contractors Involved by Craig Reid Mon 17th Aug 2026 It's been a few weeks since Halo: Campaign Evolved launched to a generally positive, but somewhat mixed reception - mostly attributed to its troubled development and lack of multiplayer. Now, the rumour mill has spun up claims that Microsoft is exploring plans to outsource parts
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What Bird Song Can Tell Us About the Nature of Dreams
Toy trumpets and cartoon lasers from old video games: This is the sound of zebra finch song. The birds weave a noisy rhythmic chatter of beeps and clicks and trills into complex melodies for courting lifelong mates and coordinating social time. Young birds learn tunes much like babies learn to talk—by mimicking adults and then
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How climate change created a new ‘Ice Silk Road’ in the Arctic
August 17, 2026 3 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm China plans to send container ships along Russia’s northern coast, reviving environmental concerns about the fragile polar region By Tom Metcalfe edited by Claire Cameron A Chinese shipowner is set to begin the first weekly container service through the Arctic on an express
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USS Benfold was powerless for four days in South China Sea after engineering failure
A US Navy destroyer spent four days without power in the South China Sea after an engineering failure disrupted essential services aboard the vessel last month. The USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, was conducting routine Indo-Pacific operations on July 24 when it suffered an “engineering casualty involving its generators,” US 7th Fleet spokesperson
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Paramount-Warner Bros deal faces ‘sufficient competition’, says CMA
Monday 17 August 2026 4:58 pm | Updated: Monday 17 August 2026 5:07 pm The combined business is expected to become the UK’s largest tv distributor The Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger will face “sufficient competition” in the UK to prevent the combined Hollywood giant from gaining too much market power, the competition watchdog has said.
‘Eye of the storm’: Business owner’s fight to keep nail tech siblings in country
A Whangārei beauty salon owner says her business may face trouble if she cannot find a way to keep her siblings in the country. Anna Vu owns AV Beauty Spa, and has worked in the city for 12 years. She said she had always struggled to find suitably skilled nail technicians and beauty staff and
What small business owners say they’d do differently, in hindsight
Working 60+ hours a week makes owners twelve times more likely to say their business is hurting their personal life. Australian small business owners are working through illness, skipping holidays and struggling to step away from their businesses, according to new research from insurer BizCover. The survey of 1,500 BizCover small business customers found more
Bright young business brains bring ideas to life
Friday 17 July, 2026 Young Cumbrian entrepreneurs showed off their innovative business ideas, from AI virtual assistants to African food, at two celebration events this week. Fifteen young people from Furness and West Cumbria aged 14 to 25 were selected to take part in the Positive Enterprise programme back in January...