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North Korea's Biggest Open Secret: Black Market Foreign DVDs

Movie DVD and VCD disks are arranged on a shelf at a store in Pyongyang, North Korea .   When Yeonmi Park was a young girl, she went to her uncle's house to watch a movie. This wasn't a state-run

Fed minutes in view, global stocks shift higher

Traders work in front of the German share price index, DAX board, at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, July 3, 2017. REUTERS/Staff/Remote Stock markets rode out the latest rise in tensions around North Korea on Wednesday, with the main markets

How Pokémon Go starts punishing its high-level players

Late-game changes seem designed to pressure players to pay.     OK Pikachu, get in the ball. Just get in the ball. GET IN THE DAMN BALL YOU FREAKING ELECTRIC RAT!  At the early levels, it's relatively easy to advance in Pokémon Go without spending any money. Provided you're not in a Pokémon-light rural area (or, er, a black neighborhood), it's pretty simple to just keep farming

A year in, millions still play Pokémon Go (and will likely attend its festival)

Punctuating a wild 12 months, Niantic releases a big gym overhaul patch.    Enlarge / You can't even escape Pokémon Go  at your local craft beer bottle store. Just one year ago,  Pokémon Go was let loose upon the hapless denizens of Earth. The augmented reality

Ubisoft wishes Watch Dogs 2 players a terrible Fourth of July [Updated]

Single-player mode had been slapped with loud surround-sound noise, until update.   Enlarge / USA-themed update to Watch Dogs 2 is making people's dogs bark thanks to surround-sound barrage. Cool, Ubisoft   Update, 3:15 p.m.: Following our article's publication, Ubisoft pushed a patch to remove Watch Dogs 2 's

Go Inside a Mind-Blowing $200,000 Mercedes Maybach Since You Probably Won't Own One

 Go Inside a Mind-Blowing $200,000 Mercedes Maybach Since You Probably Won't Own One From the outside, the 2017 Mercedes Maybach looks like an auto from the German car-maker's high-end

North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Arsenal May Have Doubled in the Past Year

North Korea could possess up to 20 nuclear warheads, double what it was thought to have just last year, according to an annual report released Monday from The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The country has conducted an unprecedented number of missile tests over the past year as tensions with the United States have risen to boiling point. SIPRI estimates that the regime is expanding its arsenal with its increased nuclear focus and expenditure. It now believes that Kim Jong Un’s regime has enough fissile material for up to 20 nuclear warheads, compared to the 10 it was thought to possess in 2016. In May, North Korea conducted what was described by experts as its most successful missile test to date, with the country claiming that it could carry a large nuclear warhead and that it put the U.S. mainland within “sighting range.” North Korea also has vowed to ignore warnings from the U.S. and the United Nations and conduct a sixth nuclear test. ...