Noise has launched its first smart ring, the Luna Ring, in India on Tuesday. The latest smart wearable from the Indian manufacturer comes equipped with several health sensors including a heart rate monitor, temperature sensor and SpO2 sensor. The new smart ring comes in Sunlit Gold, Rose Gold, Stardust Silver, Lunar Black, and Midnight Black colour options. It sports a titanium body and is said to be suitable for every skin type due to its hypoallergenic smooth inner shell. The Luna Ring also supports wireless charging.Noise Luna Ring price, availabilityNoise is yet to reveal the price and sale date for…
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Leon Black, Chairman, CEO and Director, Apollo Global Management, LLC, speaks at the Milken Institute’s 21st Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, May 1, 2018.Lucy Nicholson | ReutersA federal lawsuit filed Tuesday accused Leon Black, the billionaire co-founder of Apollo Global Management, of raping a then-16-year-old girl with autism in 2002 at the Manhattan townhouse of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.The lawsuit alleges the unidentified plaintiff had been trafficked to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who in late 2021 was convicted of procuring underage girls for Epstein. The plaintiff, who is now in her late 30s, is described in the legal complaint…
Netflix is celebrating hip hop’s 50th anniversary with a documentary dedicated to all the women of the culture — well, almost every woman, as fans have peeped the trailer and noticed it excludes Nicki Minaj!!! On Tuesday, Strong Black Lead pushed out the first look for “Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop” … which appears to be a gripping depiction of several female rappers’ rise to stardom. The trailer for the doc features commentary from a generations-spanning group of women — Queen Latifah, Roxanne Shanté, MC Lyte, Coi Leray, Kash Doll — while also highlighting content from Ice…
Investors looking to diversify beyond the tech sector runup this year can consider a handful of alternative ETFs to reduce ballooning concentration risk, said one ETF strategist.”The consternation over the mega-cap tech names driving the market — I understand it,” Todd Sohn, Strategas ETF and technical strategist, told CNBC’s Bob Pisani on “ETF Edge” on Monday. “But we’re seeing participation start to pick up that’s really important for the durability of a bull market.”Sohn said you just need to look at a few ETFs to gauge broadening sector participation, naming the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP), the iShares…
Regardless of whether or not Barbie gets a sequel, the Mattel Cinematic Universe will continue to expand. The next doll-to-screen adaptation? Polly Pocket. Under the bright pink haze of Barbiemania, you might not have realized that a film on the tiny toy has already been in the works since 2021, with Lily Collins (Emily in Paris) attached to star and Girls’ creator Lena Dunham set to write and direct. And with 45 Mattel movies reportedly planned, this likely won’t be the last time we see one of our childhood playthings on the big screen. Here’s what we know about the…
Just when it seemed like Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) were done with one another, The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 1 Episode 6 left fans with more questions than answers. Yes, Maggie got her wish and had her son back, but Negan was left at the mercy of the Croat (Zeljko Ivanek) and, by extension, The Dama (Lisa Emery), who wants him to lead New York. The shocking final scene found Maggie revealing to Hershel (Logan Kim) she was ready to finish this thing with Negan, but there are plenty of directions for this storyline to…
Chana Porter’s new speculative novel The Thick and the Lean applies American sexual taboos to food and hunger, and gives the results some chilling terminology: Food Modesty and Flesh Martyrdom. Early parts of the story take place in the cult of Seagate, a planned community where members eat in the privacy of their own homes, and only calories that are nutritionally necessary. There is no pleasure to be had in the vitamin-heavy mush of a meal, though a few scenes later, the cult’s church youth group hosts a routine, sanctioned sleepover. The minister reminds adolescent Seagaters how to respectfully (but…
In this articleWFCMSFTGOOGLSNAPRHITDOCFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTVisitors are seen at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California, United States on May 15, 2023. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines after the bell.Alphabet — Shares of the Google parent jumped 7% as investors cheered better-than-expected second- quarter results, lifted by strong growth in cloud sales. The company posted earnings of $1.44 per share on $74.6 billion of revenue. Analysts called for earnings of $1.34 per share, adjusted, and revenue of $72.82 billion, per Refinitiv. Strong growth in cloud sales lifted results. The company also…
Tom Podmore / UnsplashIn this creative nonfiction from London, a question once asked suspiciously becomes a question a man asks himself as a way of checking in.The first memory I have of this question is when, as a child, my family had run out of food. Even now, I don’t know the circumstances surrounding this. I’ve never asked my parents, partly because it would embarrass them. They might deny it ever happened. Dad was self-employed, so maybe he was between jobs and not allowed to sign on the dole. Whatever the reason, one night he took me and my brother…
In this articleGMFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTGM Chair and CEO Mary Barra addresses investors Oct. 6, 2021 at the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan.Photo by Steve Fecht for General MotorsDETROIT — General Motors CEO Mary Barra on Tuesday blamed a supplier of automation equipment for the slow ramp-up of GM’s new electric vehicles, after Wall Street criticized the rollout amid bold predictions the company would catch up to industry leader Tesla.Shares of GM were down roughly 4% in morning trading Tuesday despite quarterly results that topped year-ago performance. Analysts during the call questioned the company’s pricing strategies, EV…
As if shaving at home isn’t already bothersome enough, doing it on the road is even more complicated, and finding the best travel razor to stow in your dopp kit is the most daunting task yet.For centuries, the average guy has grown accustomed to dragging a blade across their face for the sake of a smooth finish, often only to experience irritation and the scratchiness of a five o’clock shadow. Still, these grooming gadgets are a knight in shiny armor for the modern man on the move. Fear not, friends, as this guide will navigate the sharp world of travel…
When it comes to the road to blockbuster glory, some projects are willed, some happen instantaneously, while others go through a long development hell. That’s just what happens when you’re perfecting toward a hopeful billion-grossing title. In the case of Mattel’s Barbie, it was arguably a 14-year journey that began at Universal. It stands to reason that the toy company would be fiercely protective when it came to the feature take of its 64-year-old doll that generates a reported $3 billion annually in revenue. For what was conceived as America’s Sweetheart has been tossed about, and evolved with the changing…
WASHINGTON — A startup that launched its first mission to test space manufacturing technologies last month is waiting on a Federal Aviation Administration license to be able to bring what it produced back to Earth. Varda Space Industries launched its first spacecraft, called W-Series 1, on the SpaceX Transporter-8 rideshare mission June 12, to test the ability to produce crystals in microgravity. Those crystals would be brought back to Earth in a reentry capsule set to return as soon as July 17. However, Varda said July 20 it was delaying the capsule’s return as it works with “our government partners…
Driven by a surge in demand for artificial intelligence, Taiwanese chip maker TSMC plans to invest nearly $2.87 billion (roughly Rs. 23,500 crore) in an advanced packaging facility in northern Taiwan, the company said on Tuesday.”To meet market needs, TSMC is planning to establish an advanced packaging fab in the Tongluo Science Park,” the company said in a statement.CEO C.C. Wei said last week that TSMC is unable to fulfil customer demand driven by the AI boom and plans to roughly double its capacity for advanced packaging – which involves placing multiple chips into a single device, lowering the added cost of…
Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at the American Enterprise Institute on June 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. Haley’s remarks focused on the future of U.S.-China relations and her foreign policy views. Drew Angerer | Getty ImagesAmerican companies should be ready to stop treating China as an economic competitor and start viewing it as a national security threat, former ambassador to the United Nations and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Monday.”I think China’s an enemy. I think we have to take them incredibly seriously. And the problem is, you can look at dollars and cents or you…
NewsTinashe, Big Thief, NewJeans, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects PlaylistOur weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeatBy PitchforkJuly 24, 2023FacebookTwitterFacebookTwitterThe staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff’s favorite new music. The playlist is…
A young woman sits on a couch with her therapist.Sdi Productions | E+ | Getty ImagesThe Biden administration plans to crack down on health insurance plans that discriminate against people who need mental health care and substance abuse treatments.A proposed rule published Tuesday by the Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury departments aims to push health insurers to comply with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.That law, which was passed in 2008, requires insurance plans that cover mental health care and substance abuse treatments to offer the same level of coverage for these services as they do…
For our fourth annual Future of Fashion package, we look at both sides of the fashion-in-2023 coin: AI’s uneasy promises of innovation and a global group of designers who are harnessing the power of traditional craft. Plus, we take a look at the up-and-coming, category-defying talents reshaping menswear. Makers Versus the MachinesIn an uneasy age of article intelligence, some designers have returned to time-tested methods.AN AI FASHION WEEK COLLECTION FROM PIST.AI. CHIO, DESIGNED BY MATILDE MARIANO AND SET IN AN AI-GENERATED JARDIN DES TUILERIES.Her hair woven into thin blonde braids, her face a sultry scowl, the model sported a cream…