Socks come in many variations. You have over-the-calf styles, no-show options, and classic crew designs. But none quite compare to the best wool socks for men. Comfier and cozier than their cotton counterparts, wool socks are the perfect addition to your everyday rotation.And forget what you thought about them only being suitable for winter. Moisture-wicking, temperature-regulating, and seriously soft, merino wool can be an excellent choice for the warm-weather seasons too. To make sure you’re investing in the right stock (or should I say, sock), I’ve compiled a list of the pairs you need to know about. You’ll find a…
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Writing about pop culture and current technology is always a gamble, pitting critique of the present against longevity, a story that will still feel relevant after we’re gone. But for novelists (present company included) who were exposed to the Real World before the, um, real world, reality TV is hardly a trend. We’ve grown up seeing ordinary people use the medium to solve myriad problems–or create them. And who among us hasn’t considered how we’d fare on Survivor, or snarkily judged a dish we’ve only watched being prepared? The past year has seen a notable wave of books that incorporate…
An uncaptioned image posted on the company’s website appears to show Starshield technology in orbit.SpaceXThe Pentagon has awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX its first confirmed contract for the Starshield network it’s developing, a military-specific version of the company’s Starlink satellite internet system, the defense agency said Wednesday. A Space Force spokesperson confirmed that SpaceX on Sept. 1 was awarded a one-year contract for Starshield with a maximum value of $70 million. The award came alongside 18 other companies through a program run by the Space Force’s commercial satellite communications office.”The SpaceX contract provides for Starshield end-to-end service (via the Starlink constellation),…
Going down: ALPHA-g’s barrel scintillator being assembled at CERN. (Courtesy: CERN) Antimatter does not “fall upâ€, but rather responds to the gravitational pull of the Earth in much the same way as normal matter. That is the conclusion of physicists working on the ALPHA-g experiment at CERN, who have made the first direct observation of free-falling antimatter atoms. The experiment helps rule out the idea that a difference in their responses to gravity is somehow responsible for the fact that there is much more matter than antimatter in the visible universe. However, the measurement still leaves open the tantalizing, but…
Days before Spin Master/Paramount/Nickelodeon’s PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie opens with a shot at No. 1 and $20M, a third theatrical movie has been announced for 2026. The long-running preschool franchise, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary, saw its first theatrical release under Paramount (and Elevation Pictures in Canada) open during the pandemic, day and date with Paramount+, with a first weekend of $13.1M, domestic final of $40.1M and global of $144.3M. Veteran animation director Cal Brunker (PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie; PAW Patrol: The Movie; Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature) will return to helm the third film. Jennifer Dodge, Spin Master…
by Regina Avalos, September 27, 2023(Photo: Starz) The Venery of Samantha Bird will not air on Starz after all. The cable network has canceled its plans for the series with only two episodes left to film. Production was halted on the series back in May due to the start of the WGA strike. The series was ordered by the network in October 2022. Starring Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why), Finn Jones, Embeth Davidtz, Francesca Reale, Brenda Strong, Adam Faison, Shalini Bathina and Tyrone Marshall Brown, the series follows a woman who enters into a romance with her childhood sweetheart after…
WASHINGTON — A Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan Sept. 27, returning two Russians and one American from the International Space Station after more than a year in orbit. The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft landed in its designated landing zone in Kazakhstan at 7:17 a.m. Eastern. The spacecraft had undocked from the station’s Prichal module at 3:54 a.m. Eastern. On board the Soyuz were Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio. They launched to the station last September on the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft for what was originally planned to be a typical six-month stay. Those plans changed,…
WhatsApp is redesigning the chat interface on the Android version of its application, according to details shared by a feature tracker. The popular chat service is working on changing some of the colours in the app — this change will also affect how the app looks in dark mode. Meanwhile, some of the icons and buttons in the app are also being updated along with new colours. A redesigned version of WhatsApp for iOS is also in the works, with similar changes to colours and icons in the app.On version 2.23.20.10 of WhatsApp beta for Android, feature tracker WABetaInfo spotted a…
A growing legal headache for early front-runner Donald Trump could pave the way for a “dark horse” 2024 Republican presidential candidate to win the backing of the party in the race for the White House.That’s the view of one former U.S. ambassador ahead of the Republican Party’s second televised presidential debate on Wednesday evening.Seven candidates will take the stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute in Simi Valley, California, seeking to close the gap with Trump — who holds a seemingly unshakeable lead over the rest of the field.The former president, who skipped the first Republican Party presidential…
Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Wednesday he’s unsure whether the central bank has raised interest rates enough to tame inflation.Speaking one day after he penned an essay suggesting that rates may have to go “meaningfully higher” from here in order to bring down prices, Kashkari told CNBC that the neutral rate of interest, or one that is neither holding back the economy nor stimulating it, may have moved higher.”I don’t know,” he said on “Squawk Box” when asked whether the current target range for the federal funds rate of 5.25%-5.5% is “sufficiently restrictive” to bring inflation back to…
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner’s divorce case was front and center in a Miami courtroom Wednesday, and Joe’s lawyer made it clear … there’s gonna be a dogfight over who hears the case — an American judge or a UK judge. The stakes are extremely high … if an American judge hears the case, it gives Joe a huge home-court advantage, and the reverse is true if the UK judge gets the case. Joe’s lawyer, Thomas Sasser, made it clear … based on his exchanges with Sophie’s counsel, she says their family had become UK-based so the divorce should be…
In this articleAMZNMSFTFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTPanos Panay, chief product officer of Microsoft Corp., displays the new Surface Laptop 3 computer during a Microsoft product event in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. Microsoft unveiled a dual-screen, foldable phone that will run on Google’s Android operating system, jumping back into a market it exited years ago.Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFormer Microsoft product chief Panos Panay will join Amazon later this year to oversee its devices and services unit, the company said Wednesday.Panay will replace longtime Amazon devices head Dave Limp, who announced last month he’d…
Finally, we have an answer to what was on that ring camera footage that reportedly led Joe Jonas to file for divorce from his wife of four years, Sophie Turner. A source revealed to Us Weekly that the camera caught Turner “saying some not-so-nice things about Jonas” to a friend of hers. “It wasn’t anything more than that, but that was the final straw,” the source said.Multiple sources told TMZ about the ring camera footage on September 6, the day after Jonas filed for divorce. The outlet wrote that “Joe had access to a ring cam that he said captured…
If you thought Mary and Gary’s relationship had bite back when Wolf Like Me Season 1 premiered, allow us to present the trailer for Wolf Like Me Season 2. Their bond is stronger than ever as they both vow to protect one another, even as the net is closing around them. With Mary’s actions being the topic of much debate, Gary realizes that the only way to keep the family safe is to embrace this relationship. The big concern, obviously, is that Mary is pregnant, and there’s a high chance she’ll be giving birth to a werewolf. How the heck…
There are some items that should be present in every guy’s wardrobe—whether you’re a country bumpkin or a suit-obsessed city dweller. And when it comes to pants, the five-pocket style is one of the most versatile lower-half options you can own.A reliable yet seriously stylish staple, the best 5 pocket pants will be your companion come rain or shine. You can dress them up with shirts and shoes, or keep it casual with graphic tees and box-fresh kicks. Whatever your preference, your smartest move is yet to come. Keep reading for a round up of the top seven options for…
Father’s Gone and So Is His Arm Worrying About Father’s Arm How will we solve the problem of how Father sleeps on his right arm? He is not comfortable, his arm is under him, it hurts him as it presses into his ribs, and it is hurt by the weight of his body pressing down on it. He tells us this, with a gentle smile, as though to say it is not important, and not our problem. Father died many years ago. But the problem is still there on my mind, unresolved, even though Father no longer tries to sleep…
In this articleTGTFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA Target department store in North Miami Beach, Florida, on May 17, 2023.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesTarget said Tuesday that it will close nine stores in major cities across the country, citing violence, theft and organized retail crime.The company will close one store in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, two locations in Seattle, three stores in the San Francisco-Oakland area and three more in Portland, Oregon. The discounter said it will shutter the stores for good on Oct. 21.”We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the…
Merrily We Roll Along, the new Broadway revival of the Sondheim classic musical starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, broke the six-performance house record at the Hudson Theatre with a $1.3 million gross in its first week of previews. Filling every seat in the venue, the revival carried an eye-popping average ticket price of $225.07, besting the $166.11 of the usual frontrunner Hamilton by a wide margin for the week ending September 24. Merrily, the Off Broadway transfer from New York Theatre Workshop, grossed, to be exact, $1,304,508 for its first six Broadway previews, breaking the previous six-performance…