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Helldivers 2 overtakes God of War to become PlayStation’s biggest PC launch
Helldivers 2 finally arrived this week after what felt like an eternity. The game launched yesterday across PC and PS5, and the launch has been pretty successful so far. In fact, it’s the biggest launch ever for a PlayStation-published game on PC.
Sony Interactive Entertainment, of course, created the mouthy label PlayStation PC to solidify its plans to more consistently bring more and more of its once PlayStation-exclusive titles to PC. These efforts started with Horizon Zero Dawn, and have continued since.
Samsung overtakes Apple in phone shipments as the market dips again
Sons of the Forest overtakes Twitch’s most popular viewer category
With the Sons of the Forest release date finally here, the survival game has been off to an absolutely colossal start on platforms like Steam, and it looks like developer Endnight can add Twitch to the game’s lists of conquests, as Sons of the Forest briefly obliterated the viewer count of the platforms most popular category.
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Security overtakes innovation as top IT funding priority, survey finds
A Red Hat survey of more than 1,700 IT leaders found that security is top of the agenda while finding the right talent is still a challenge.
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Paris Overtakes London As Europe’s Largest Stock Market
While the UK’s FTSE 100 index has remain relatively stable this year, thanks in part to export revenues boosted by a lower pound, the FTSE 250 index — comprising smaller, medium-sized businesses — has plummeted in value by 17 per cent. This fall has been fueled by concerns over rocketing energy bills and interest rates, the latter of which surged in the wake of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-Budget which spooked investors with her rapidly-announced raft of unfunded tax cuts. By the fourth week of Ms Truss’s premiership, British stock and bond markets had lost roughly $500 billion in combined value, Bloomberg reported.
Speaking as Office for National Statistics figures showed that Britain’s was the only G7 economy to shrink in the three months to September, the chancellor said on Friday he was “under no illusion that there is a tough road ahead” requiring “extremely difficult decisions to restore confidence and economic stability.” “But to achieve long-term, sustainable growth, we need to grip inflation, balance the books and get debt falling,” Mr Hunt insisted, adding: “There is no other way.” However, Michael Saunders — an economist who, until August, spent six years as one of the nine members on the Bank of England committee responsible for setting interest rates — suggested on Monday that, were it not for Brexit, “we probably wouldn’t be talking about an austerity budget this week.”
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Vinyl overtakes Playstation games, DVDs and CDs as UK’s second best-selling physical entertainment format
iPhone overtakes Android to claim majority of US smartphone market
For the first time ever, there are more iPhones in use in the US than any other type of smartphone. Citing data from analytics firm Counterpoint Research, the Financial Times reports the iPhone overtook the entire Android ecosystem in June to claim 50 percent of US market share. In doing so, Apple achieved its highest-ever share of the American smartphone market. Apple achieved the feat on the back of the iPhone’s “active installed base,” a metric that takes into account all the people who are using an iOS device after purchasing one used.
In the early days of the iPhone, iOS (then known as iPhone OS) never had anywhere near 50 percent market share. At that time, companies like Blackberry, Nokia and Motorola dominated the smartphone space. By 2010, two years after its debut, Android overtook iOS to claim the larger install base. Ever since then, Google’s mobile operating system has been the dominant force in the global smartphone market, claiming more than 70 percent market share as of 2022, according to Statcounter.
Google probably has nothing to worry about. After all, the iPhone has always had an outsized presence in the US compared to other markets. Still, the company is likely looking at the situation closely. “This is a big milestone that we could see replicated in other affluent countries across the globe,” Jeff Fieldhack, Counterpoint’s research director, told The Times. To that point, Apple dominated the premium smartphone market in Q2 2022, with the iPhone representing 57 percent of all sales in the segment and shows no signs of slowing down.
China Overtakes the US In Scientific Research Output
The Japanese NISTP report also found that Chinese research comprised 27.2% of the world’s top 1% most frequently cited papers. The number of citations a research paper receives is a commonly used metric in academia. The more times a study is cited in subsequent papers by other researchers, the greater its “citation impact.” The US accounted for 24.9% of the top 1% most highly cited research studies, while UK research was third at 5.5%. China published a yearly average of 407,181 scientific papers, pulling ahead of the US’s 293,434 journal articles and accounting for 23.4% of the world’s research output, the report found. China accounted for a high proportion of research into materials science, chemistry, engineering and mathematics, while US researchers were more prolific in research into clinical medicine, basic life sciences and physics. “China is one of the top countries in the world in terms of both the quantity and quality of scientific papers,” Shinichi Kuroki of the Japan Science and Technology Agency told Nikkei Asia. “In order to become the true global leader, it will need to continue producing internationally recognized research.”
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