[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Chicago P.D. Season 12 Episode 3 “Off Switch.”] What Officer Kevin Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins) needs is an off switch, and it seems like he may have found one by the end of the latest Chicago P.D. episode in the form of some fun with forensic psychologist Val Soto (Natalee Linez). At first, Val is just a woman that Atwater meets and connects with at a cop bar while juggling messages from his family and tenants. They hit it off then, but they clash over how much to push a victim when it turns out she’s…
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Meta announced the expansion of Meta AI, the company’s in-house artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to six new countries on Wednesday. The UK has been included in the list of countries which are getting access to the AI chatbot now. The social media giant also highlighted that the AI platform will be expanded to 15 more countries soon, taking the number of total supported countries to 43. Apart from introducing Meta AI within its social media apps, the company also added voice-based AI capabilities to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in the UK and Australia.Adding an update to its July post,…
A satellite image shows Hurricane Milton progressing in the Gulf of Mexico before its expected landfall in Florida, Oct. 9, 2024.CIRA | NOAA | Via ReutersThe National Hurricane Center said Milton’s maximum sustained winds had dropped to 90 mph as of 1 a.m. ET Thursday, making it a Category 1 hurricane.The NHC said the storm was about 40 miles south southwest of Orlando and about 65 miles west southwest of Cape Canaveral. It said a flash flood emergency continued over parts of west-central Florida with damaging winds reaching the state’s east coast.Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida as an…
FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan testifies during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing titled “Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the Federal Trade Commission,” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesCVS Health, UnitedHealth Group and Cigna are demanding Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and two other commissioners recuse themselves from a suit accusing the companies and other drug middlemen of boosting their profits while inflating insulin costs for Americans. In separate motions filed Tuesday night with the FTC, the companies argued that all three commissioners have an extensive…
Grabango’s mobile appGrabangoGrabango, a venture-backed startup that was vying to take on Amazon in cashierless checkout technology, is shutting down after it was unable to raise enough money to stay afloat.”Although the company established itself as a leader in checkout-free technology, it was not able to secure the funding it needed to continue providing service to its clients,” a spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC on Wednesday. “The company would like to thank its employees, investors, and clients for all their hard work and dedication.”Food tech publication The Spoon reported earlier on Grabango’s closure.Launched in 2016, Grabango was developing…
The Cure have shared a new song, “A Fragile Thing”—the second from Songs of a Lost World. Listen to it below ahead of the album’s release on November 1. Also below, see the album’s newly revealed tracklist.Songs of a Lost World, the Cure’s first album in 16 years, was produced with Paul Corkett at Rockfield Studios in Wales. Two other songs from the LP, “And Nothing Is Forever” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye,” will be released as a live single this November.Read Sam Sodomsky’s Sunday Review of the Cure’s Wish.Songs of a Lost World:01 Alone02 And Nothing Is Forever03…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission headquarters in Washington, DC, U.S.Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesKalshiEx has listed more than two dozen new options in recent days for the exchange’s customers to bet on political outcomes, including the presidential race, the popular vote and Electoral College margins of that race, and individual Senate contests.The new contracts were added to Kalshi’s platform within days of a favorable federal appeals court ruling for the company on Oct 2. The ruling lifted a temporary injunction that had blocked Kalshi from offering contracts on which political parties would control each chamber of Congress after the November…
Bertie’s Place by Edie Goodwin The temperature is dropping, leaves are falling, and candles are burning which can only mean one thing: Autumn has arrived! One of the best things about fall is putting together my cozy reading list for the season and I think I found a gem with Bertie’s Place by Edie Goodwin. This book has all the elements you need for a cozy read: small town, charming Victorian homes, found family, forgiveness and of course, romance. Grab a hot drink and a fuzzy blanket to optimize your reading experience for Goodwin’s fiction novel debut, Bertie’s Place. Discover…
My nail polish collection is pretty extensive. As a beauty editor, I’m lucky enough to receive lots of lovely samples and test out some of the best formulas out there, so I have almost every colour you could ever dream of. However, one shade I don’t have is yellow. You see, in my opinion, this is a pretty controversial shade. After speaking to the Who What Wear team, I learnt that some people love a pop of yellow, whereas others wouldn’t even consider wearing it on their nails.Hailey Bieber is a fan of the yellow nail trend.That being said, I’ve…
Paramount Co-CEO George Cheeks said the company needs to have “substantive dialogue” about perceptions of bias and “inconsistent treatment,” following the CBS Mornings interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. In the interview about Coates’ new book, The Message, which argues that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is immoral, host Tony Dokoupil drew criticism from some for his pointed questioning around Coates’ views. In memo to employees, Cheeks wrote that an editorial meeting should be called to talk about the standards for fairness and objectivity set within the news division. But he added that hosts should still be allowed to ask tough questions. “Our hosts…
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve officials at their September meeting agreed to cut interest rates but were unsure how aggressive to get, ultimately deciding on a half percentage point move in an effort to balance confidence on inflation with worries over the labor market, according to minutes released Wednesday.The meeting summary detailed reasons that policymakers decided to approve a jumbo rate cut of 50 basis points for the first time in more than four years, and showed members divided over the economic outlook.Some officials hoped for a smaller, quarter percentage point reduction as they sought assurance that inflation was moving sustainably…
Gia and Teresa Giudice join forces for new business venture. Pic credit: @teresagiudice/Instagram Teresa Giudice is throwing major shade at the haters who bashed her for using jarred sauce in a recent recipe. The Real Housewives of New Jersey star has major plans to make money from her cooking skills, sharing that she’s opening a restaurant. It will be a family affair for the mom of four as her business partner is none other than her eldest daughter, Gia Giudice. Teresa revealed that they are “looking for locations,” most likely in her home state of New Jersey. The Bravo star…
Fitbit is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to gain more insights into their health and fitness data. On Tuesday, the Google-owned wearable brand announced that it was rolling out its first AI feature to a limited number of users. Those eligible, can find the feature within the ‘You tab’ of the Fitbit app. The latest introduction is dubbed insights explorer which borrows Gemini’s capabilities to offer a conversational experience to learn more about the data being collected by the wearable device.Fitbit Gets an AI FeatureLast year, the Fitbit app received a major makeover. Google…
WASHINGTON — A startup led by a founder of a financial services company is taking a new approach to space-based solar power intended to be more scalable and affordable than previous concepts. Aetherflux announced Oct. 9 plans to develop and ultimately deploy a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit that will collect solar power and beam it to Earth using infrared lasers. The company is planning to demonstrate this technology with a small satellite launching by early 2026. The concept is a departure from many previous concepts for space-based solar power (SBSP), which have involved large arrays in geostationary…
People visit the beach as storm clouds hang pass overhead before Hurricane Milton’s arrival on October 08, 2024 in Fort Myers, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesLocal authorities said Wednesday that Floridians only have a few hours left to evacuate the storm surge area as Milton, which is currently a Category 4 hurricane, is projected to make landfall on the western coast of the state late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.Gas stations around the state have already run out of fuel as people attempt to either leave the state or have fuel on stock for at-home generators. About 1,200 of…
BOULDER, COLO. — Not far from the majestic Rocky Mountains is an ordinary suburban neighborhood, a tree-lined street and a modest light gray home.It’s not the kind of place you’d imagine an investigation into black market Ozempic would lead. But it did.A CNBC investigation into counterfeit weight loss drugs revealed an international illegal marketplace where criminals either brazenly alter the drugs or ship the real product from overseas — what’s known as drug diversion and against federal law.The operations mainly involve phony or illegal versions of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug Ozempic and its obesity drug Wegovy as well as Eli…
Greig Nori, the ex-manager for Sum 41, has denied accusations of sexual abuse put forward by the band’s frontman Deryck Whibley. The allegations arose as the singer yesterday (October 8) shared his first memoir, Walking Disaster, and also opened up to the LA Times about some of the more serious subject matter in the book. In the memoir, Whibley accused Nori, who is also the frontman for fellow pop-punk group Treble Charger, of grooming him, as well as sexually and verbally abusing him for years. Speaking to The Globe And Mail on Monday evening, Nori said that he had not…
Mayor Eric Adams speaks to the press during the weekly briefing at the City Hall about the ongoing programs in New York City. Lev Radin | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesA former New York City official, who until Monday worked in the Adams administration, has been arrested and charged with witness tampering and obstruction of justice, according to federal prosecutors.In a new complaint from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, prosecutors allege Mohamed Bahi, 40, organized fundraisers for Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign and accepted straw donations. Prosecutors say Bahi obstructed the federal investigation into those donations by…