Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, arrives during a funeral ceremony at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 8, 2023.APWASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin broke his silence Thursday in quick, impersonal remarks to the families involved in the fatal plane crash believed to have killed Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.Prigozhin, who was once Putin’s personal chef and confidant, was living in exile following an attempt in June to revolt over frustrations stemming from a lack of Russian battlefield successes in Ukraine.”With regard to this plane crash, first of all, I want to express my sincere…
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NBC took a big swing in 2023 in not only reviving Night Court (originally anchored by the late, great Harry Anderson) but in bringing it back with the aim of returning to the classic sitcom style. Seriously, how long has it been since we’ve heard a proper laugh track? An entire generation of TV viewers has never experienced the joy of a well-timed pratfall shared with a hundred faceless “live studio audience” members. It’s a darned shame, it is. That big swing connected with audiences and ratings, and NBC renewed the fledgling series a scant few weeks after its premiere…
The world’s marketing strategies for gendered fragrances have typically been influenced by “traditional” masculine notes and “traditional” feminine notes. Today more than ever, though, some of the best brands are abandoning that approach and instead focusing on genderless fragrances.At the end of the day, fragrance is subjective and marketing is marketing. Whatever you want to smell like—that’s what you should smell like. And if it happens to be coconut, you came to the right place. The best coconut perfume offerings shouldn’t smack you in the face with their coconut-ness. Instead, the tropical fruit should be a supporting character in the…
Tania James’s novel Loot is a deeply affecting, deliciously imaginative spin on how 18th century Mysorean Ruler, Tipu Sultan’s infamous automaton—”Tipu’s Tiger”—came into being. James, in her typical out-of-the-box imagination, has given voice and life to the (historically unknown) makers of the life-sized mechanical tiger, fully equipped with sound and movement, mauling a British soldier, currently on display in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. 17-year-old woodcarver, Abbas, is called to Tipu’s court in 1794 as an apprentice to French clockmaker, Lucien du Leze, to build Mysore’s first automaton—a much needed symbol of Tipu’s ferocity in the aftermath of Mysore’s humiliating…
Conformable ultrasound breast patch MIT researchers have designed a wearable ultrasound device that could detect breast tumours when they are still in early stages. (Courtesy: Canan Dagdeviren) A wearable ultrasound scanner that could help detect breast cancer earlier – and thus improve survival rates – has been developed by a research team headed up at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Breast cancer is the most common cancer to affect women, with around 2.3 million new cases diagnosed worldwide in 2020. When caught in its early stages, the survival rate is nearly 100%, but this drops to 25% among patients whose…
The shadow of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is seen on the moon’s surface.ISROThe list is grim reading: Stuck, failed, missed, failed, failed, stuck, failed, crashed, missed, crashed, crashed.Those were the fate of the Soviet Union’s first 11 attempts before successfully landing a spacecraft on the moon, according to a database compiled by Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who catalogs space missions.Even in the modern era — with nine lunar landing attempts since 2013 — the track record is still shaky. Before India’s success Wednesday, missions by China, India, Israel, Japan and Russia were three for eight…
As Barbie becomes the highest-grossing film of 2023 today at the domestic box office with north of $575M, Warner Bros and Imax said the Greta Gerwig-directed movie is getting a one-week Imax release starting September 22 in North American and select locations around the world. The pic starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling has cleared $1.3 billion at the global box office. In addition to experiencing the film for the first time in Imax, audiences will be treated to exclusive post-credits footage selected by Gerwig. You’ll remember that Oppenheimer grabbed all those Imax theaters during its opening weekend because that Christopher Nolan directed epic was shot…
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab successfully reflew an engine on an Electron launch Aug. 23 as the company moves a step closer to reusing the entire rocket booster. The Electron rocket lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 7:45 p.m. Eastern. The “We Love the Nightlife” mission deployed a Capella Space radar imaging satellite into a 640-kilometer mid-inclination orbit 58 minutes after liftoff. The launch was originally scheduled for July 30 but scrubbed because of data from a sensor in one engine that indicated low igniter pressure. A second attempt on Aug. 6 was also scrubbed.…
Apple Smart Ring could be in development at the Cupertino company as a wearable device that is capable of controlling another device with touch and pressure-sensitive controls on the ring’s surface, according to details from a recently-granted patent. The smart ring proposed in the company’s latest patent is also capable of providing haptic feedback for notifications. Apple has spent several years working on a smart wearable device that resembles a ring — it filed a patent application years ago for ring shaped controls for VR devices.Published by the US Patent Office (USPTO) on Tuesday, the patent US 11733790 B2 (via AppleInsider)…
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the Kharkiv region for the first time since Russia started attacks against his country, on May 29, 2022.Ukrainian Presidency | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — The Republican primary debate in Milwaukee Wednesday is expected to showcase the deep divisions within the party over America’s role in the Russian war on Ukraine.Reflecting the diverse views of Republican voters, several of the party’s would-be presidential nominees support sending more lethal aid to bolster Ukraine’s war effort. These candidates also tend to view the conflict as a proxy war in defense of democracy around the world.But a roughly…
Play video content Instagram / @bluefasebabyy Blueface is nursing fresh wounds suffered in the boxing gym when a guy whipped out a knife and stabbed him during an altercation that started on video. The rapper, and pretty successful amateur boxer, was training Wednesday morning at a gym in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley when the attacker came into the gym. Security footage posted on Blue’s IG shows the trainer, David Kaminsky, trying to get in between the man and Blueface. It appears there was an argument about something, and Blueface decided he was through talking and hit the guy with several…
In this articleNVDAFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTNvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at the Consumer Elctronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, USA, 04 January 2017. Huang announced that his company would collaborate with the German car company Audi in future.Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesNvidia is on a tear, and it doesn’t seem to have an expiration date.Nvidia makes the graphics processors, or GPUs, that are needed to build AI applications like ChatGPT. In particular, there’s extreme demand for its highest-end AI chip, the H100, among tech companies right now.Nvidia’s overall sales grew 171% on an annual basis to…
The 2024 Super Bowl is still half a year away, but talk of Taylor Swift playing the halftime show has picked back up in August 2023. All evidence points to Swift not playing at the big game in 2024—or even in the near years to come. A source told Daily Mail on August 23, “She will do it eventually, but she is in no rush at all to do it in Vegas or do it in the next couple of years. She knows she is at her peak in her career and each move from this point on is as…
This is the end, Riverdale fans! After many years of milkshakes and mischief, we’ve made it to Riverdale Season 7 Episode 20. The series finale was a roller coaster of emotions for the characters and us watching at home. There are plenty of sweet endings and sad goodbyes for these beloved characters we’ve known for seven seasons. It’s a heartbreaking end for the wild and entertaining (yet sometimes frustrating) story that was Riverdale. “Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Seven: Goodbye, Riverdale” served true to its name. Riverdale’s series finale was a nostalgic trip down memory lane and a farewell to the characters.…
The best things in life come in the smallest packages – yes, including cheap stocking stuffers for men. Just because they’re inexpensive doesn’t mean they’re lacking. The items on this list will fill up any fireplace adornment while providing the guy in your life with a dose of affordable luxury.Ranging from useful and practical to silly and elegant, these cheap Christmas stocking stuffers for men will delight any recipient. If you need some inspiration for the holiday season, look no further. This list dishes out unique picks to fill a man’s stocking with… All without breaking the bank. Keep reading…
In Oliver Sacks’ New Yorker essay “Altered States,” he describes an auditory hallucination he experienced after taking a handful of Artane pills, a very simple hallucination in which he heard his friends enter his home and sit in his living room while he was in the kitchen making eggs. “We had had a friendly, ordinary conversation, just as we usually had. Their voices were the same as always—there was no hint, until I opened the swinging doors and found the living room empty, that the whole conversation, at least their side of it, had been invented by my brain.” Sacks’…
SHENZHEN, CHINA – MARCH 09: View of high commercial and residential buildings on March 9, 2016 in Shenzhen, China. General economic slowdown continues in China while the property price and stock bubble faces risk. (Photo by Zhong Zhi/Getty Images)Zhong Zhi | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesChina’s economic challenges have given rise to deflationary pressures that present a global concern and are likely to accelerate in the coming quarters, according to economists.Beijing’s deteriorating economic fundamentals have become starkly apparent in recent months, with July’s data broadly missing expectations and the National Bureau of Statistics suspending its publication of youth unemployment…
In this articleDKSNKEFLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTPeople walk past a Nike sporting goods store at a shopping complex in Beijing, China, March 25, 2021.Florence Lo | ReutersNike’s stock tumbled Wednesday for the 10th day in a row after Foot Locker reported dismal quarterly results and consumers continue to pull back from the footwear sector. The sneaker giant’s shares fell about 2.5% in intraday trading. If shares close lower, the 10-day losing streak would be the longest in Nike’s history as a public company since its IPO in 1980.Nike, which is expected to report earnings late next month, is widely considered…