Monster Energy Supercross went east for the first time this year giving a new set of riders a chance to show their talents in the 250 class. It was the 450 class, however, that held the most twists, as Chase Sexton surrendered a sure win in a solo crash just before the white flag came…
The buildings occupy a site surrounded by greenery on three sides Singapore-based SC Capital Partners has teamed up with Hong Kong value-add developer Lofter Group to acquire a more than 90 percent interest in a project on Ap Lei Chau island in the Asian financial hub, with an eye towards redeveloping the set of aging…
A rendering of CDL’s proposed twin-tower residential project along Macaulay Road Hines has acquired its second build-to-rent project in Melbourne, Australia for a reported A$30 million ($21.6 million) with the US developer taking over the development from Singapore’s City Developments Ltd (CDL) and a pair of local partners. Hines is planning to develop 220 rental…
HKRI had acquired Souei Park Harayuku in 2015 Hong Kong developer HKR International has agreed to sell two Tokyo residential buildings for JPY 3.49 billion ($30 million), adding to a string of recent property disposals by HKRI in Japan. The properties are a seven-storey, 22-unit building called Souei Park Harajuku in the Shibuya area and…
Yango Group is the latest mainland developer to spook investors In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, Yango Group becomes the latest Chinese developer to miss interest payments, compatriot Shimao requests an extension on some of its own debt, and Hong Kong’s Sino Hotels sees a bleak year ahead for the city. China Builders Miss…
On the DidYouKnowGaming? YouTube channel, independent games journalist Liam Robertson has released a new episode of Game History Secrets that exclusively reveals a lost Game Boy Color add-on called Nintendo Page Boy, which would have introduced a “world of wireless communication to Game Boy Color users: including email, web browsing, photo messaging,” world news, sports…
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.The Cloud is not only material, but is also an ecological force. Source image: Taylor Vick, via UnsplashLast year, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing launched a specially commissioned series…
Back to thoughtsAt its peak, AlphaBay was 10x larger than Silk Road ever was. As a darknet marketplace that was, on a daily basis, facilitating the sale of $700,000 worth of drugs, guns, and other illegal items, it attracted the attention of a certain three-letter government agency, as you can imagine.The FBI tried hard to…
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Two babies have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease after over 14 years of development. Tay-Sachs is a severe neurological disease caused by a deficiency in an enzyme called HexA. This enzyme breaks down a fatlike substance that normally exists in very small, harmless amounts in the brain. Without HexA, however, this fatlike…
