Alex Jones's flagship radio channel is now silent – but not for the same reason as everyone else took him offline. The Federal Communications Commission has taken down Jones's flagship radio station, Liberty Radio, according to reports. It was taken offline because it was operating as a pirate radio station, the Association Press said. The lawsuit filed against those behind the station claimed that Liberty Radio had been broadcasting since at least 2013. It was doing so without a license, apparently from an apartment in Austin, Texas.

That tricky question is back. As the 2018 Asian Games start in Indonesia, for the first time, the competition will include video gamers alongside the likes of athletes, swimmers and weightlifters. Although it is a demonstration sport this time, the plan is to make esports a full medal event in 2022, and the International Olympic Committee is considering it for the summer games. The impetus for its acceptance is growing. Esports is having a bit of a moment in the West (see New Scientist's video report, below), with pro …

While Alibaba Cloud maintains its public cloud hold in the Chinese market, the cloud provider is making moves to expand its presence across Southeast Asia. Yesterday at the Alibaba Cloud Summit Infinity 2018 in Singapore -- its first cloud computing conference outside of China -- the company launched nine products for its global market. It also expanded partnerships and debuted a partner program. The mix of launched products span from an IoT platform and tool kit, a serverless service, a machine learning platform, a security software scanning service, an online backup service, and a dedicated hosting service. All of which Alibaba will be introducing to its global market.

Gen. Igor Konashenkov, says in just one month air defense assets have downed 45 drones targeting the Hemeimeem air base. The base in the province of Latakia serves as the main hub for Russian operations in Syria.

HONG KONG/BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO – China's regulators have frozen approvals of game licenses amid a government shake-up, according to people familiar with the matter, throwing the world's biggest gaming market into disarray. The halt follows a restructuring of power among departments, said the people, who asked not to be named because they don't have approval to discuss the issue publicly. Regulators have also been concerned about violence and gambling in some games, according to one person. Online, mobile and console games have all been affected. The whole sector has been rattled as gaming companies from online giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. to small developers await approvals.

Owning a car means having the freedom to venture at your own pace… it also means a great deal of expenses, and surprisingly a study found that it might be cheaper to Uber in these major cities than to own a car. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has brought Uber back to basics, refocusing on delivering profitable ride-hailing. Uber wants to be more than your first choice for a ride-sharing service: It wants to infiltrate your life, just as Amazon does. The ride-hailing company, now nine years old, is generating revenue growth, and reinvesting that into a variety of expansive ventures – from scooters and bikes to flying taxis. Uber generated $2.8 billion in revenue last quarter, up 63 percent from the same period a year ago when revenue was about $1.7 billion.

Kroger unveils plans to test market home delivery via driverless cars. The grocer with 119 locations in Arizona is part of the Kroger chain. Kroger confirmed Thursday it will begin testing driverless grocery delivery in suburban Phoenix. Customers of the supermarket giant's subsidiary Fry's in Scottsdale, Arizona will be able to place online orders starting Thursday. Grocery orders can be scheduled for same-day or next-day delivery though a fleet of self-driving vehicles.

Twitter is considering wide-ranging changes as it continues to be attacked for promoting conspiracy theorists and far-right activists on its platform, its boss has said. The company is looking into altering the way the service works so that it can limit the way that false stories, misinformation and hate speech are spreading across the site, CEO Jack Dorsey said. But some of its options appear to be controversial already. They include attempting to undermine the idea of filter bubbles by forcing people to see the opinions of people they disagree with – which could include many of the site's discredited and extremist voices. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.

In a café on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a one-time videogame developer turned political theorist named Santiago Siri is trying to explain to me how his nonprofit startup, Democracy.Earth, aims to fix the world's broken politics with the help of the blockchain. The conversation has already covered a dizzying amount of ground. We've discussed the emergence of the Westphalian order of nation-states in the 17th century, Russia's interference in the 2016 US election, the total collapse of Venezuelan society, and Siri's own experience of political corruption in his native Argentina. But he finally boils it all down to one short sentence. "We want to tokenize the like," Siri says.

Xbox Live is still not working properly, hours after a major outage. The company addressed a major outage overnight that stopped people entirely from signing in. But those issues are still ongoing, according to the website Down Detector. It reported a major uptick in issues over the morning, as people struggled to get back online. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.