DefenseNews

Nordic and Baltic countries team up to fund US arms for Ukraine

PARIS — The Nordic and Baltic countries are teaming up to pay for a $500 million United States military support package of weapons and munitions for Ukraine, they said on Thursday. Norway will contribute the lion’s share at 2 billion Norwegian kroner, or about $200 million, while Sweden will provide $60 million and Denmark around 400 million Danish kroner ($53 million) in funding, the…
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GamingNews

Arc Raiders Dev Drops Cosmetic Prices, Offers Refunds, and Reveals It 'Silently' Enabled Duo Prioritized Matchmaking

Surprise! Arc Raiders is cutting the prices of its store cosmetics, and will refund anyone who snapped them up before the new price goes into effect tomorrow, November 13. In an update on the official Arc Raiders website, developer Embark Studios said it has “heard [player] feedback,” writing: “We’ve reviewed our prices and made adjustments to lower prices where…
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CryptoNews

Bitcoin’s Down Again: Is It the Government Shutdown or AI?

The leading cryptocurrency eased to $103K on Tuesday afternoon after climbing as high as $107K following a breakthrough in Congress to end the ongoing government closure. Government Shutdown or AI Bubble? The Reason Bitcoin is Down Japanese investment giant Softbank reported…
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Bitcoin Dips as Concerns of an AI Bubble Mount

Analysts are getting increasingly skittish about the mind-bending dollar amounts being plowed into the red-hot artificial intelligence (AI) sector. The AI Bubble Anxiety: Why Bitcoin Is Falling “We are looking at commitments of about $1.4 trillion over the next 8 years,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week. That figure is almost $200 billion larger than the gross domestic product (GDP) of the…
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NewsSpace

Nikon Z50 II camera review

Not to be confused with the numerically similar Canon EOS R50 or R50 V, which, like this Nikon, squeezes an APS-C sensor into a compact chassis, the Z50 II updates and revitalizes its brand’s entry-level mirrorless camera. With an eye on hitting an affordable price point…
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Severe geomagnetic storm sparks northern lights across North America and as far south as Mexico (photos)

A severe (G4) geomagnetic storm lit up skies across the Northern Hemisphere overnight (Nov. 11-12), with vivid northern lights visible across Canada, the U.S, and as far south as Mexico. The incredible display followed the arrival of multiple coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — eruptions of magnetic field and plasma from the sun — launched by sunspot AR4274, one of the most energetic sunspot…
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