EW Scripps CEO Adam SymsonSource: EW ScrippsLocal TV station owners including Sinclair, TEGNA and EW Scripps all saw their valuations plummet this week after Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox announced a new sports joint venture set to launch this fall.Sinclair dropped 12% Wednesday, TEGNA fell 7.2% and Scripps plummeted 24% as investors weighed the meaning of a new, skinnier cable bundle of sports networks that will include ESPN, TNT and Fox but will leave out CBS and NBC. Sinclair bounced back by rising 7% Thursday, but TEGNA and Scripps were little changed.But Wall Street’s reaction is overblown, according to…
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Kacey Musgraves has announced the new album Deeper Well. The Texas-born singer will release her Star-Crossed follow-up on March 15 (via Interscope/MCA Nashville). The album’s first single is the title song, and it comes with a music video made by creative production studio London Alley and director Hannah Lux Davis. “Sometimes you reach a crossroads. Winds change direction. What you once felt drawn to doesn’t hold the same allure,†Musgraves said of “Deeper Well†in a press release, “you get blown off course, but eventually find your footing and forage for new inspiration, new insight, and deeper love somewhere else. 
The Libertines have revealed which artists will be joining them for their upcoming Brighton show – with The Charlatans, The Mary Wallopers and more added to the line-up. Find ticket details below. The announcement comes just one day after the indie heavyweights announced their headline slot at the On The Beach 2024. Organised in association with Radio X and set to take place on July 28, the set is part of two weekends of gigs that will take place on Brighton beach; The Kooks have already been confirmed to play the weekend prior (Sunday, July 21). “Well, hello there Brighton…
WhatsApp — the messaging app with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) owned by Meta — will soon add support for cross-platform messaging. Support for third party chats will allow people using a different messaging platform to text users on WhatsApp, and Meta has said that the feature will be opt-in to prevent users from being spammed across services. The company’s confirmation of its efforts to enable cross-platform messaging comes ahead of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) deadline of March 6.When the upcoming chat interoperability is enabled on WhatsApp, users will be able to send messages along with various types…
The Spektr-RG spacecraft, illustrated here, carries the eROSITA X-ray telescopehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/dlr_de/48092029201/in/album-72157709154538987/ DLR (CC-BY 3.0) The widest X-ray survey of the night sky has revealed some of the most extreme and violent processes in the universe, from forbidden stars to pulsating supermassive black holes, as well as tracing the universe’s overall web-like structure. The eROSITA X-ray telescope, which was launched aboard the Russian-German Spektr-RG space observatory in 2019, is designed to capture the broadest and most sensitive view of the universe… Read the original article here
Amazon’s Ring is raising the price of its cheapest Basic subscription, following similar bumps by Google and others, the company said in a FAQ seen by The Verge. As of March 11, it’s going from $4 to $5 per month (or $40 to $50 dollars a year), an increase of 25 percent.The last time Ring raised its Basic plan rate in June of 2022 (from $3 to $4 per month), it also added a few features like additional cloud storage, larger bulk videos downloads and the ability to receive exclusive discounts on future Ring product. This time, though the price…
Don’t forget to breathe now that the credits rolled! Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 4 Episode 4 featured a horrifying shootout. Stabler racing toward a dark house where men lurked in the shadows with machine guns, a surprise twist, and an unexpected injury all got my adrenalin pumping. How about you? The shootout was the climax of a riveting episode. The situation at the Stabler family home paralleled Kiki’s resentment and foolish sabotage of the plan to go into witness protection, adding to the tension. I couldn’t decide which part of the hour fascinated…
SAN FRANCISCO – L3Harris Technologies announced the results Feb. 7 of a three-month demonstration of a compact Digital Beamforming Phased Array Antenna System (DPAAS). During the demonstration in Fairbanks, Alaska, the DPAAS prototype handled an average of more than 300 satellite contacts per day, including up to eight simultaneous contacts. The technology “supports the idea of scaling and supporting multiple missions with common infrastructure,†Shikha Ganguly, L3Harris general manager for weather, space and airborne systems, told SpaceNews in late January at the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting in Baltimore. Government and commercial customers are seeking innovative ground systems to communicate with large…
President Joe Biden on Thursday evening strongly disputed new claims by Department of Justice special counsel Robert Hur that he “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” as a private citizen, and that he had exhibited poor memory during an interview about that material.”My memory has not gotten worse,” Biden told reporters in a nationally televised address at the White House hours after Hur released his report.”My memory is fine.””I’m an elderly man, and I know what the hell I’m doing,” Biden said, in response to a reporter’s question that noted Hur’s reference to the president as elderly.”I’ve been president and…
Nvidia shares hit a fresh all-time high on Wednesday, and its gains may still be in the early innings, according to VanEck CEO Jan van Eck.Van Eck, whose firm runs the largest U.S. semi exchange-traded fund, points to a first-mover edge in the race to fabricate artificial intelligence chips that could bolster the performance of stocks including Nvidia.”It’s just that these companies have huge competitive advantages, almost quasi-monopolies,” he told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” on Monday.Nvidia is up 216% over the past year and 41% since Jan. 1, as of Wednesday’s close.”Who competes against Nvidia for GPUs [graphics processing units]?” he…
US President Joe Biden answers questions from the press following his remarks regarding lowering cost for American families in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Thursday January 12, 2023.Demetrius Freeman | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency,” Department of Justice special counsel said in a report released Thursday.But special counsel Robert Hur also said that he would not criminally prosecute Biden for his handling of that material.The FBI found classified documents, which by law should have been given back to the U.S. government…
“The Sunshine Cure†by Natasha Varner I knew where I was going but not how to get there, so I made several wrong turns on my way to the Castle Apartments. When I finally arrived, I got out of the car and had to shield my eyes from the sun. It was cold in the way that only a winter morning in the desert can be: an emptiness where you expect warmth. My presence on that otherwise empty street felt conspicuous. I was searching for a part of Tucson’s past, but to any observer I was just a loiterer casing…
Finding the perfect cologne these days can be difficult when such a wide variety of scents are available to us. With aromas of fruits and flowers, spices and woods, and just about every lovely smelling thing under the sun, the best colognes for men offer a scent for everyone. Jean Paul Gaultier offers high-quality cologne with intoxicating scents, from floral to musky and energetic to sensual aromas. This high-end brand may offer the next signature smell you wear out wherever you go. I love wearing cologne, and Gaultier for men is my favorite collection of fragrances. I own all the…
Life is too short to wait around for your drink. Here are a few quick tips on how to get your bartender’s attention and get served quickly. 1 StakeYour Spot Stand near the bartender’s station, where he’s pouring drinks and can make eye contact. Or watch to see if he (or she) gravitates towards a specific spot when not mixing. If you’re not in front of them, they can’t serve you. 2 BePrepared Having your money or credit card out shows you mean business. Waving a $20 bill at the bartender makes you look like a dick. And you’d better…
John Green‘s next screen adaptation is almost here as the film Turtles All the Way Down eyes a streaming debut on Max for Spring 2024. Based on Green’s novel of the same name, Turtles All the Way Down will be led by Isabela Merced, who was recently cast in the highly-anticipated second season of The Last of Us. Merced will portray a 17-year-old protagonist, Aza Holmes, who battles with anxiety in this latest tale from the popular author as seen in the newly-released photos above and below. (Credit: Courtesy of Max) While it’s not easy being Aza, she’s trying to…
Maggie Rogers is coming back on April 12 with the new album Don’t Forget Me. The Capitol Records release is led by the title track. Watch the music video for “Don’t Forget Me†below.Rogers wrote her new album over five days in December 2022 and January 2023. She worked on her Surrender follow-up with co-producer Ian Fitchuk at New York’s Electric Lady Studios. (Coincidentally, Kacey Musgraves just announced a new album, Deeper Well, that she also recoded with Fitchuk at Electric Lady Studios.) Shawn Everett mixed Don’t Forget Me, and longtime Rogers collaborator Emily Lazar mastered the album.“Eight of the…
The Rolling Stones have shared that they have “cut back†on their backstage rider requests. Bassist Darryl Jones revealed that the iconic band no longer have big asks for their backstage area such as gigantic gaming rooms but did say that they do keep plenty of food around including guitarist Keith Richards’ favourite dish, shepherd’s pie. “They would make a room out of curtains and things. We had the banks of video racing games, where you sit, that was around for a while. They kinda cut back on that stuff now. Keith still has what he loves, shepherd’s pie. There’s…
Apple persuaded a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a Silicon Valley startup accusing it of illegally monopolizing the US market for heart rate monitoring apps for its Apple Watch.US District Judge Jeffrey White in Oakland, California, ruled on Tuesday against AliveCor, which had developed an app for detecting irregular heartbeats.It accused Apple of violating the federal Sherman antitrust law and a California unfair competition law.The decision explaining White’s reasoning is temporarily being kept under seal because of confidentiality concerns.”AliveCor is deeply disappointed and strongly disagrees with the court’s decision to dismiss our anti-competition case and we plan to…