One year ago, when oil was trading in the mid-$50s, and when MarketWatch released an article saying "Now’s time to consider energy stocks: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley" (from December 15), we took the other side and on January 29 we explained why "Either Oil Soars Back To $88, Or Energy Stocks Have To Tumble By Over 40%."
A dedicated Japanese gamer left his Nintendo Super Famicom (Super Nintendo) switched on for two decades, in case he might need to resume his favorite saved game. Gamer Wanikun saved the Japanese game Umihara Kawase on his machine for 180,000 hours. IGN News reports: As reported by Rocket News 24 (via Nerdist), the game came out in 1994, and some game cartridges back then had a static RAM partnered with lithium ion batteries. If the batteries stayed charged, your game would stay saved.
An expecting couple nearly had a fit when they saw the ultrasound images of their unborn baby for the first time. Their baby wasn’t alone in the womb. An unexpected presence lurked behind the fetus’s head. Daily Star reports: A copy of the scan uploaded online shows the foetus reclining in mum’s tummy while the mysterious figure stands watching from one side of the image. Yet when the shocked parents asked their sonologist for reassurance, the doc could offer no answers – only saying that they had never seen anything like it.
ISIS reportedly launched an attack on an Iraqi army base near Ramadi, just days after the city was recaptured by government troops. A military spokesman said suicide car bombers and fighters wearing explosive belts took part in the attack which killed three Iraqi soldiers and wonded 17 others on Friday. WMTV reports: Even though Iraqi forces have managed to drive ISIS jihadists out of the center of Ramadi, local tribal leaders said this week that ISIS still controls as much as 25% of the city, and significant pockets of ISIS resistance remain.
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