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Against all odds, Japan’s SLIM lander managed to turn back on more than a week after it plopped upside down onto the surface of the moon — but now, it’s gone dormant for the duration of the lunar night, and it may not be able to wake up again. The SLIM team from the Japanese space agency, JAXA, on Thursday shared the last image the lander captured at the moon’s Shioli crater before dusk, as night encroached. Lunar night lasts the equivalent of two Earth weeks and can get colder than -200 degrees Fahrenheit.Last night (1/31 ~ 2/1) we sent…

What? We can’t believe Sam Waterson’s leaving Law & Order. There have been many cast changes, but Jack McCoy has been a fixture since the 1990s.  But sometimes, a character has gone as far as he can. McCoy may be ready to retire, which offers an opportunity to breathe new life into the oldest member of the Law & Order franchise. McCoy is an old-school district attorney — the kind of man the younger characters look to as a mentor. This is how Law & Order district attorneys tend to be; when he was young, he reported…

ORLANDO, Fla. — With congestion growing at the nation’s major launch sites in California and Florida, operators of inland spaceports are seeking creative ways to host orbital launches. The number of commercial launches licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration more than tripled between fiscal year 2020, with 31 licensed launches, and fiscal year 2023, with 106. The FAA is forecasting 111 launches in fiscal year 2024, according to data presented by Pam Underwood, director of the FAA’s Office of Spaceports, in a Jan. 29 presentation at the annual meeting of the Global Spaceport Alliance here. That growth, though, has largely…

Shari Redstone, president of National Amusements, speaks at the WSJ Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 21, 2019.Mike Blake | ReutersParamount Global nonexecutive chair and controlling shareholder Shari Redstone has been talking to potential buyers interested in acquiring her media company — or parts of it for years — but the seriousness of those discussions has heightened in recent months.There are sector-related reasons for why a deal seems increasingly urgent. The media world is changing rapidly. During the Covid-19 pandemic, legacy media companies seemingly had a path to growth by launching their own streaming services. But Wall…

Luxury giant LVMH is making a push to gain share of the global luxury watch business, with a newly formed watch division and an array of new, higher-priced models.Sales of luxury watches worldwide are estimated at about $30 billion this year, according to market research firm IMARC Group. They’re expected to grow to more than $37 billion by 2032, as global wealth increases and Generation Z and millennials become more interested in high-end mechanical watches.LVMH’s jewelry and watch division posted sales of $11.8 billion in 2023, representing a 7% increase in organic growth. The luxury giant now has 10 watch…

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) holds a news conference following a caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on January 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesHouse Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Saturday announced an Israel-only funding package to be voted on next week, another step in the deadlocked negotiations over emergency aid that President Joe Biden initially proposed in October.The House proposal comes as a challenge to a long-awaited Senate package that is expected to be released this weekend. The Senate’s bill is expected to include broader foreign aid than just Israel and address…

I was a reader in a family of runners. With pre-teen grumbles, I reluctantly participated in summer track leagues, always bringing up the rear, always slowing things down, until one day under the blazing Tennessee sun I got my legs moving and earned my first ribbon. My dad puffed me up saying, “You were so fast out there, you could have been a Tigerbelle.”In my family, the Tigerbelles were legends. Being compared to the elite team made me feel like a winner, even with my 3rd-place yellow ribbon. In that moment, I was a Tigerbelle and I was invincible! There…

For as long as I can remember, men have been programmed to believe that wearing shoes is pretty much the only way one can look truly presentable. Through the years, I would often question whether dress sneakers could be a suitable alternative. Ha, forget it pal. As a student of a British high school, I remember being forced to wear my trusty black Kickers when all I wanted to do was show off my collection of shiny new sneakers. Later in life, nightclubs would refuse entry if I tried to walk in with my favorite kicks. Torture. However, thanks to…

Breaking down the best way to “dress for the occasion”, luxury workwear and why we’re all becoming worse drivers. Read the original article here

Interview With the Vampire Season 2 will take viewers to all new places when the AMC series makes its highly anticipated return this spring. Based on the second half of the Anne Rice novel of the same name, book readers already know where this plot could take us. But as with any adaptation, and just like with changes made for Season 1 of the lush vampire drama, creative liberties that serve the goals of this new version of the beloved tale will be taken. Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire Season 2 stars Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du…

Back to Black, the new Amy Winehouse biopic directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, has an official trailer after last month’s teaser. Marisa Abela portrays the late singer in her ascendancy from a plucky teenager to a troubled icon of jazz and pop; the trailer focuses on her bloody-minded approach to her career, and the friends, family, and other figures who were beside her along the way. Watch it below.Winehouse already got the documentary treatment in 2015 by way of Amy, Asif Kapaida’s more probing documentary, which showcased the singer’s struggles with addiction and malign influences before her death from alcohol poisoning…

Bruce Springsteen joined Jon Bon Jovi on stage in Los Angeles last night as the latter was honoured with the MusiCares Person of the Year Award. Check out the footage below. The two rockers joined for a rendition of Bon Jovi’s ‘Who Says You Can’t Go Home’, as well as the Boss’ ‘The Promised Land’. Bon Jovi also debuted a new song by the name of ‘Legendary’. The event went down at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and featured additional performances from Shania Twain, Sammy Hagar, Goo Goo Dolls and Jason Isbell. The night finished with many of the artists…

Samsung Galaxy Ring was announced at the Galaxy Unpacked event on Wednesday, January 17. It was accompanied by a small teaser video which hinted at the design. It was claimed to be a “health and wellness device.” However, the company did not reveal any feature details, nor did it confirm a launch timeline. Several leaks about the Galaxy Ring have surfaced online over the past few days. The possible dimensions of the smart ring were suggested previously, now it has been spotted on one of the firm’s software suites. A Reddit user spotted the Samsung Galaxy Ring on the Good Lock…

According to a document leaked on , Google is planning to introduce some major changes to its Bard AI tool as soon as this coming week. The plans, which have not been publicly confirmed, reportedly include changing the Bard name to Gemini. It would make sense for Google to do so, if only for simplicity’s sake — the company introduced its new multimodal AI model, Gemini, at the end of 2023 and has begun integrating it into some of its products, including Bard.The changelog shared by Android app developer Dylan Roussel is dated February 7, and also notes that the…

A group of renters in the U.S. say their landlords are using software to deliver inflated rent hikes.”We’ve been told as tenants by employees of Equity that the software takes empathy of the equation. So they can charge whatever the software tells them to charge,” said Kevin Weller, a tenant at Portside Towers since 2021.Equity Residential purchased Portside Towers in 2019. Tenants say the management started to increase prices substantially after giving renters concessions during the Covid-19 pandemic.The 527-unit building is located roughly 20 minutes away from the World Trade Center, on the shoreline of Jersey City, New Jersey. A…

Big Tech’s market dominance may push more investors to equal-weight exchange-traded funds, according to VettaFi’s Todd Rosenbluth.”Investors are getting nervous that too much money is concentrated in a handful of stocks within the broader ETFs that they have available that [are] tied to the S&P 500 or even the Nasdaq 100,” the firm’s head of research told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” earlier this week.Rosenbluth lists the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF and the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Technology ETF as options for investors who want to reduce exposure to the “Magnificent Seven.””You own the same companies that you’d find…

A top prosecutor on Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis’ criminal election interference case against former President Donald Trump admitted they developed a “personal relationship” after he joined her team — but both he and Willis denied that caused a conflict of interest.Nathan Wade, the prosecutor, in a sworn affidavit filed Friday also denied allegations that he or Willis have financially benefited from the romantic relationship, as one of Trump’s co-defendants has alleged.Willis in the same court filing rejected defendants’ arguments that their relationship warrants dismissing the indictment or disqualifying either of them from the case.She slammed the attacks on Wade…

Across her three books, Donna Hemans’ characters range from Jamaica to America and back again, often in the same story; the men and women who populate her novels, taking children with them or leaving them behind, are immigrants simply trying to make a better life. But there’s always a cost, and many make mistakes along the way. In River Woman, her first novel, a mother leaves her child behind when she moves to New York; when she returns to Jamaica years later, she doesn’t know whether to trust her own daughter, accused of drowning her own child by jealous villagers.…