U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, center, waits with others to receive Chinese President Xi Jinping at the San Francisco International Airport on Nov. 14, 2023, ahead of Xi’s meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBEIJING — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was scheduled to arrive in China on Thursday ahead of four full days of meetings with Chinese officials.It’s her second trip to the country since the summer, as the U.S. and China seek to increase high-level communication in an otherwise tense relationship. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is also due to visit China again…
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After Wednesday’s annual shareholder meeting — featuring CEO Bob Iger successfully fending off dissident investors, led by Trian’s Nelson Peltz — Wall Street experts are gaming out the next steps Disney may take as it plots out room for growth. Analysts shared took stock of the vote’s impact on and outlook for Disney, its stock, and its management team, led by Iger. Succession planning and the need to optimize streaming and pay-TV profits are among the key priorities they outlined. Disney shares closed down 3.1 percent at $118.98 on Wednesday, but were up slightly in Thursday pre-market trading. MoffettNathanson analysts…
The Apple Music application for download in the Apple App store.Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesApple on Wednesday said it had fixed an outage for its App Store on iOS and MacOS devices.The iPhone maker picked up 19% of revenue from its Services category, including some from the App Store, according to its latest quarterly report. For most applications, developers keep all revenue they generate through the App Store, but Apple receives a commission when people buy individual apps and make in-app purchases.”Users are experiencing a problem with this service. We are investigating and will update the status as…
Levi Strauss, which has long relied on wholesalers like Macy’s and Kohl’s to drive its business, is now doing nearly half of its sales through its own website and stores, the company said Wednesday when reporting fiscal first-quarter earnings. In the three months ended Feb. 25, direct-to-consumer sales made up a record 48% of overall sales at Levi’s, up from 42% in the year-ago period and 25% higher on a two-year basis, the retailer said. The shift is a boon for Levi’s profits. But it raises questions about the company’s relationships with its wholesale partners and whether it will hurt those retailers…
On May 10, Yaya Bey releases her new album, Ten Fold. Today, she’s shared the album’s “Me and All My N****s.” The single arrives with a music video directed by Chassidy David. Bey conceived styled, and choreographed the new visual, and she explained, “This video is an ode to my dad and his style from his first album.” (Bey’s father, the rapper Grand Daddy I.U., died in December 2022). Watch the new video below.“Me and All My N****s” is the fifth preview of Bey’s follow-up to Remember Your North Star, following “Crying Through My Teeth,” “The Evidence,” “Chasing the Bus,”…
NxWorries, the duo of Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge, have announced their sophomore album, ‘Why Lawd?’. Last night (April 3), NxWorries (pronounced “No Worries”) took to social to announce the upcoming record, which is due for release on June 7 via Stones Throw. Further information surrounding their second studio album remain unknown at this time, including its tracklisting and cover art. The duo shared on Instagram that more information will be shared “soon”. In the meantime, the pair of .Paak and Knxwledge have shared a new single, ’86Sentra’, along with an official visualiser to accompany the track. The newly released track…
Meta AI is consistently unable to generate accurate images for seemingly simple prompts like “Asian man and Caucasian friend,” or “Asian man and white wife,” The Verge . Instead, the company’s image generator seems to be biased toward creating images of people of the same race, even when explicitly prompted otherwise.Engadget confirmed these results in our own testing of Meta’s image generator. Prompts for “an Asian man with a white woman friend” or “an Asian man with a white wife” generated images of Asian couples. When asked for “a diverse group of people,” Meta AI generated a grid of nine…
Apple introduced a new feature for its mixed-reality headset Vision Pro called spatial Personas on Tuesday, as per a report. Extension of the existing Personas feature, where users can see each other’s 3D virtual representation in a window, the new feature is said to allow users to step into a common virtual setting for a collaborative experience. Users can now play games, work together on a project, or watch a movie while being able to see all the participants. The new feature was reported to be added via an update to the Apple Vision Pro’s visionOS.According to a report by…
Bert’s breakdown at Sharon’s party was utterly heartbreaking. Chicago Med Season 9 Episode 9 offered a glimpse into the insidious nature of dementia. Bert was only in a few scenes, but his transformation from mostly with it to forgetting he didn’t live with Sharon anymore to his grief over realizing his mistake was painfully realistic. It was an hour filled with tough calls, but that was the scene that got me — and it wasn’t even at the hospital. Sharon will always share a special bond with Bert even though they’ve both moved on. It would…
You need a lot of cash — and guts — to short Trump Media stock right now.Trump Media, which began being publicly traded last week, is now far and away the most expensive U.S. stock to sell short, according to S3 Partners, a leading financial data marketplace platform.But plenty of people are still willing to pay those steep costs, based on their belief that Trump Media’s share price is bound to fall dramatically from its Wednesday closing of $48.81.Investors who wanted to borrow Trump Media shares to sell them short on Wednesday would have had to pay annual financing costs…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Turtles All the Way Down is a 2017 YA novel by John Green, author of The Fault In Our Stars and Looking for Alaska. It follows Aza, a teenager with OCD, as she navigates friendship, romance…and trying to solve the mystery of a missing billionaire. All the while, she battles with debilitating thought spirals, especially about infections. John Green has spoken about how Aza’s thought spirals are based on his own experience with OCD.The adaptation is directed by Hannah Marks, and the screenplay…
When it comes to choosing the perfect watch for your outdoor adventures, the Seiko Alpinist stands out as a top contender. This iconic timepiece has captured the hearts of watch enthusiasts worldwide, and for good reason. In this Seiko Alpinist Review, we’ll explore five compelling reasons why the Alpinist is arguably Seiko’s best watch. Clicky Bezel Key Takeaways While completing the Seiko Alpinist review, I thought the watch fell into the Goldilocks category (not too big, not too small…just right). Meaning it was the perfect size despite it being 39mm, making it suitable for a wide range of wrist sizes…
There’s something about the start of a new season that makes us immediately re-evaluate our wardrobes. Perhaps its the shift in temperatures, maybe its an overdue spring clean, but all too often I’ve stood in front of the mirror feeling uninspired and wishing my wardrobe was “cooler”. The solution? An immediate closet overhaul (nothing gets thrown away mind, merely stored for the following year). And where do we find guidance on the trends truly worth investing in? Well, as fashion editors our instinct is to scour the runways for the next big thing, but the truth is, the burgeoning trends…
Cancel Christmas Season 46 • Episode 6 [Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Survivor Season 46 Episode 6, “Cancel Christmas.”] Finally, some action! The merge saved Survivor Season 46 from the slump it’s been in the last few episodes. With the Yanu losing streak over, Jeff Probst mercifully told the players the “drop your buffs” and prepare to move to the Nami camp. It was in these interactions that the true power players stood out. Q, Hunter, Tiff, Tevin, Soda, Charlie, and Maria are the ones to watch from this episode. Each of them have been laying strong foundations on their…
(Left) Benedict Cumberbatch as Henry Sugar in ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.’ Photo: Netflix ©2023. (Right) Olivia Colman in ‘Empire of Light.’ Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.Preview:Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman will star in and produce ‘The Roses’.Jay Roach is directing the new take on 1989 comedy thriller ‘The War of the Roses’‘Poor Things’ Tony McNamara is aboard to adapt the William Adler novel.Back in 1989, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner starred as the Roses –– Oliver and Barbara –– who seemed to be living the perfect life. But, as it turned…
Disney surprise-revealed concept art for their proposed Avatar land in California’s Disneyland at the company’s shareholder’s webcast on Wednesday, celebrating what they call a piece of “inspirational art” that is “only just the beginning.” The art, later also released on the Disney Parks Blog, shows an outdoor lake with guests standing at the shoreline, peppered with boats and a large waterfall. Fictional Pandora creatures surround the humans, and tall outcropping of rocks frame the lake in a scene emblematic of the world created by writer-director James Cameron. The scene also looks similar to Disney World’s Pandora: The World of Avatar, which…
Technological prowess, especially regarding humanity’s increased presence in space, is increasingly becoming the linchpin of global competitiveness and national security. There, new opportunities to integrate AI are accompanied by a new generation of risks. Artificial intelligence in particular plays a crucial role in democratizing access to space exploration and research, opening it to many beyond just governmental space agencies, as evidenced by the large number of commercially financed and operated space launches over the last five years. As launch companies adopt AI-enabled autonomous flight safety systems, Space Launch Delta 45 is saving on mission control chairs and looping out about…
Some amino acids can become concentrated as they travel through cracks in hot rockSebastian Kaulitzki / Alamy Chemical reactions key to the origin of life on Earth could have occurred as molecules moved along thermal gradients within networks of thin rock fractures deep underground. Such networks, which would have been common on the early Earth, could have provided a kind of natural laboratory in which many of life’s building blocks were concentrated and separated from other organic molecules. “It’s very difficult to get a more general environment where you could have these purifications and intermediate steps,” says Christof Mast at…