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Week in Gaming: Battlefront and Baby Park fight for our attention – and our favourite GTA 5 movies so far

Hello, and Baby Park. I hope you all had a good Baby Park, and didn’t stay up too Baby Park! It’s time for this week’s rundown of Baby Park news, featuring all the biggest Baby Parks, the best Baby Parks and the rumours of upcoming Baby Parks. First on the list, as you can probably guess, is the release of Mortal Kombat X. With gorier fatalities and frankly disgusting brutalities

Back to basics: is Web 1.0 making a comeback?

Introduction and the yearning for Web 1.0 Is your website optimised for Netscape 2.0? Fifteen years ago that was a critical question in IT, but it’s those early days of the internet that some yearn for. Back in the 1990s, chat rooms weren’t global platforms demanding participation, and hosted no advertising. Websites were ugly, but simplistic. Distractions were few. Would you go back? Are modern websites too demanding for some

Google Now brings better search to Chrome OS

Google is rolling out an update to Chrome OS to bring the Google Now experience to Chrome OS. The feature was previously available in a beta of the Chrome operating system, and now all Chromebooks have access to Google’s anticipatory search computing engine in the public release. Along with porting Google Now from Android to Chrome OS, there are a few other notable changes as part of the Chrome OS

Investors look to earnings for market direction

Investors attempting to determine whether U.S. equities will rebound from Friday’s selloff or continue to sink will look to a deluge of earnings next week for a clearer picture of the economy. Equities lost ground after industrials Honeywell International and General Electric took hits from the strong dollar, while concerns over new trading regulations in China and Greece’s place in the euro zone dented sentiment. Investors have grown concerned about

Russia denies German report it is ready to sign gas deal with Greece

MOSCOW/BERLIN (Reuters) – Russia denied on Saturday a German media report suggesting that it could sign a gas pipeline deal with Greece as early as Tuesday which could bring up to five billion euros into Athens’ depleted state coffers. German magazine Der Spiegel, citing a senior figure in Greece’s ruling Syriza party, said the advance funds could “turn the page” for Athens, which is now struggling to reach a deal

Taurus revamp debuts in China as Ford counters U.S. sedan slump

SHANGHAI/DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co’s (F.N) global premiere of its redesigned Taurus sedan in China underscores a shift in its U.S. home market from the big sedan to roomier, utilitarian crossover SUVs. There’s a similar trend in China, the world’s biggest car market, but there is still a decent appetite among Chinese buyers for large sedans while, in the United States, demand has stagnated. According to research firm IHS

Deutsche Bank leans toward limited revamp with Postbank sale: sources

Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) will sell Postbank (DPBGn.DE) but keep a pared back own-brand retail business in the overhaul plan currently favored by management, sources familiar with the internal discussions at Germany’s biggest lender said. Only two management board members support dumping all retail activities, with the other six favoring just selling Postbank, the sources told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity as the matter is not public. Seven years after

Oil falls from 2015 peaks, Brent jumps 9.6 percent on the week

Crude futures fell from 2015 peaks in choppy trading on Friday, but Brent’s 9.6 percent weekly gain was its biggest in more than five years as Middle East turmoil and signs of lower U.S. production lifted prices. Brent June crude fell 53 cents to settle at $63.45 a barrel, having swung from $62.95 to $64.50 after hitting $64.95, its 2015 high, on Thursday. Brent’s second straight weekly gain, the fourth

Grilled: Lexus seeks design edge over premium rivals

Big may be beautiful, but Toyota Motor Corp’s global design chief is betting that edgy is the way to go for the Japanese automaker’s premium Lexus brand, specifically its signature ‘spindle grille’ design.     Tokuo Fukuichi, who is also Lexus’ global chief, says the design shock-therapy gives the brand – and conservative Toyota more broadly – the stand-out face it previously lacked.     While some industry rivals and design experts