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Rather than waiting for US tech CEOs to come to Ukraine, Ukraine’s leading tech owner and CEO, Boosteroid’s Ivan Shvaichenko, went to the United States to launch its US headquarters and future $1 billion-plus NASDAQ listing of the world’s third-largest cloud-game hosting company after GE Force of Nvidia and XCloud of Microsoft. But Shvaichenko’s first The post Ukraine building new bridges in US appeared first on Asia Times.

Video games are among the most popular forms of mainstream entertainment, with an estimated 3.38 billion players globally – about 17% of whom are in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). One of the most anticipated video game titles of 2023, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, puts the spotlight on medieval Islamic civilization. Given the popularity of video games, The post How ‘Assassin’s Creed’ imagines medieval Baghdad appeared first on Asia Times.

Russian defense sources say that an ATACMS tactical ballistic missile was launched from Kulbakino Air Field in Ukraine. If the Russian report is correct then the Washington debate about sending tactical ATACMS missiles to Ukraine is fake, as they already are there. The Russian report has not been confirmed. What is clear is that the Ukrainians used missiles to attack Sevastopol on The post Is the ATACMS tactical missile already in Ukraine? appeared first on Asia Times.

China is expected to complete the construction of a site in Shenzhen for its third exascale supercomputer in 2025, aiming to show its determination to bypass the United States’s sanctions.  An exascale supercomputer is more than a million times faster than the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Intel ASCI Red supercomputer, which was launched in The post China pushes supercomputing goal despite US curbs appeared first on Asia Times.