Wilson products at the Paragon Sports store in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York on Jan. 4, 2024.Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmer Sports, the Finnish athletic company behind the Wilson tennis racket and Arc’teryx, made a muted debut on the public markets Thursday, as shares rose 3% after it priced its initial public offering at a discount.The stock opened at $13.40 a share on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “AS” and closed at the same price. Based on the closing share price and the company’s 484 million outstanding shares, Amer Sports has a rough market capitalization of about $6.49…
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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023.Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty ImagesMark Zuckerberg is so pleased with his “year of efficiency” that he’s extending it indefinitely. On Thursday’s earnings call, after Meta reported fourth-quarter financials that sailed past analysts’ estimates, Zuckerberg said he wants to “keep things lean” and has no plans to accelerate hiring.Headcount, which peaked well above 86,000 in 2022, shrank 22% last year to 67,317, as Meta instituted mass cost cuts to appease an investor base that had lost faith…
Benson might have had to confront her biases… but she wasn’t there. On Law & Order: SVU Season 25 Episode 3, Benson’s obsession with the Maddie Flynn case dragged her out of the squad room right after learning that an escort was a second victim, not a rapist. While the series missed an opportunity to confront implicit biases about rape survivors and perpetrators, Ray Goldberg’s story was one of the most moving survivor stories they’ve had in a while. SVU has always been about supporting survivors, and Benson has been more like a social worker than…
The best messenger bags for men are staples that you buy once and wear forever. There are plenty of different types of bags out there. You got backpacks, rucksacks, cross-body bags, the list goes on. Yet there’s something so distinct and classy about a solid messenger bag. It’s a style that’s been around for half a century. Countless brands have attempted to reinvent this bag all with the goal of crowning an undisputed champion. But what really is the best bag? Lucky for you, this list breaks down some of the best men’s messenger bag options you can find on…
“The Great Blue†by Kim Drew Wright I’m gliding on my back atop a paddleboard, up the silent creek that swindles away from the Chesapeake Bay, becoming smaller, muddier, filled with creatures I can’t see but hear rustling in the marsh grass, slinking into the water with trepidatious splunks. Herons fly overhead, their great necks curved in a protective S, as if they are aware of the dangers of this world. I curl further into myself, the fear rising up from my gut until I turn with shaky arms to head back into open water. We’ve rented a house with…
Boris Nadezhdin, the Civic Initiative Party presidential hopeful, arrives at the Central Election Commission to submit signatures collected in support of his candidacy, in Moscow on January 31, 2024.Vera Savina | Afp | Getty ImagesOver President Vladimir Putin’s 24 years in power, a systemic opposition has been wiped out in Russia with the Kremlin’s political opponents either jailed or in self-imposed exile or, in some circumstances, even dead.But a challenger to Putin’s long reign in office has emerged from an unlikely place — within Russia’s existing political establishment — in the form of Boris Nadezhdin.Standing on a platform for peace…
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Vivo Y200 5G was unveiled in India in October last year. It is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 SoC and is backed by a 4,800mAh battery with 44W fast charging support. Now the company has announced that the phone will be available in a new storage variant. Vivo also announced a price cut for two of its other models, the Vivo Y27 4G and the Vivo T2 5G, that were launched in the country in July and April 2023, respectively. The Vivo Y200 5G is now available in an 8GB + 256GB storage configuration that is priced at Rs.…
Bruce Springsteen’s mother Adele has died … this according to Springsteen himself. The 74-year-old singer-songwriter announced the news Thursday in a heartfelt Instagram post … saying his mother passed away Wednesday and sharing some lyrics from his song “The Wish.” Play video content The lyrics talk about Mother’s Day and the memory of listening to his mother get ready for work in the morning … perfectly complimenting a short video of the pair dancing to big band music on the porch of a large estate. The pair twist and dance around before Mama Springsteen plants a sweet kiss on her…
In this articleAAPLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTApple CEO Tim Cook attends the Wonderlust event at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Sept. 12, 2023.Loren Elliott | ReutersApple CEO Tim Cook teased that Apple may have an artificial intelligence announcement later this year during a call with analysts after the company reported fiscal first-quarter earnings.While Cook’s remarks on Thursday did not include many details, they did indicate that Apple wants to compete with Microsoft, Google, Amazon, OpenAI and other technology companies working on cutting-edge AI models that can generate text and images.”As we look ahead, we will continue to…
(L to R) Maya Erskine and Donald Glover in ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith.’ Credit: David Lee/Prime Video. Copyright: Amazon Studios.Premiering on Prime Video this week, ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ loosely –– very loosely –– adapts the 2005 Doug Limanmovie that saw Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie playing married assassins unaware of each other’s secret job whose stale relationship is re-ignited when they’re assigned by their competing agencies to take each other out (and we don’t mean on a date).But the new series shares really only the title and the most basic concept with the movie. Instead, here we have two…
There was a time when it looked as though Netflix was poised to become the streaming world’s answer to HBO. Like the network that brought you The Sopranos and Deadwood, Netflix created its own niche, and at first, the streaming giant seemed to be focused on supplementing its movie library with a wide array of prestige original series. But in recent years, the OG streamer abandoned that strategy in favor of an approach that’s less ambitious and — well, more depressing. These days, there’s a pervasive feeling that Netflix is more TBS than HBO. The platform that delivered Orange Is…
The best messenger bags for men are staples that you buy once and wear forever.There are plenty of different types of bags out there. You got backpacks, rucksacks, cross-body bags, the list goes on. Yet there’s something so distinct and classy about a solid messenger bag. It’s a style that’s been around for half a century. Countless brands have attempted to reinvent this bag all with the goal of crowning an undisputed champion. But what really is the best bag? Lucky for you, this list breaks down some of the best men’s messenger bag options you can find on the…
NewsSchoolboy Q Announces New Album Blue LipsThe Top Dawg Entertainment rapper is looking to release his Crash Talk follow-up on March 1By Matthew StraussFebruary 1, 2024FacebookXSchoolboy Q, photo by Bethany VargasFacebookXSchoolboy Q is on his way back. The Top Dawg Entertainment rapper has shared the tracklist for his new album, Blue Lips, and indicated that it will arrive on March 1. See the tracklist trailer below.Schoolboy Q has been relatively quiet since releasing his fifth studio album, Crash Talk, in April 2019. Prominently, he was on “Pac-Man,” with Gorillaz, in 2020, and “Gang Signs,” with Freddie Gibbs, in 2021. He…
In this courtroom sketch, former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as his attorney Alina Habba delivers closing arguments during E. Jean Carroll’s second civil trial in which Carroll accused Trump of raping her decades ago, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City on Jan. 26, 2024.Jane Rosenberg | ReutersA verdict in the New York civil business fraud trial of former President Donald Trump — which had been anticipated Wednesday — is now expected to arrive in early to mid-February, a court spokesman said.That new timeline for the written decision by Judge Arthur Engoron is still a “rough estimate”…
ORLANDO, Fla. — More than 40 members of Congress from California have asked the White House to reverse cuts NASA has imposed on the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, warning of job losses and a “decade of lost science.” The Feb. 1 letter to Shalanda Young, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, marks an escalation of an earlier request by many of the same members in November to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson to undo a slowdown in spending in MSR prompted by uncertainty in fiscal year 2024 appropriations. The letter was led by Reps. Judy Chu…
Launching rockets into space with atomic bombs is a crazy idea that was thankfully discarded many decades ago. But as Richard Corfield discovers, the potential of using the energy from nuclear-powered engines to drive space travel is back on NASA’s agenda Going nuclear America’s DRACO rocket will use the heat from a fission reactor to propel it into space. (Courtesy: Lockheed Martin) In 1914 H G Wells published The World Set Free, a novel based on the notion that radium might one day power spaceships. Wells, who was familiar with the work of physicists such as Ernest Rutherford, knew that…
Data scientist and artificial-intelligence researcher Azadeh Keivani talks to Tushna Commissariat about her journey from astronomy to healthcare, co-founding an educational non-profit organization and her work in outreach Interdisciplinary achiever Azadeh Keivani turned her sights from astrophysics to data science in healthcare, while also founding an educational non-profit organization. (Courtesy: Ashkan Balouchi) Astrophysicist turned data scientist Azadeh Keivani has had an unusual career journey. From an early interest in astronomy as a high school student in Iran, she moved to the US to complete a PhD and postdoc in cosmic rays and particle astrophysics, and now develops machine-learning techniques across healthcare,…