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Time to fly: Euclid will spend some six years observing the universe (Courtesy: SpaceX) A craft to explore the nature of dark energy has been launched today aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:12 local time. The €1.4bn Euclid mission will study the large-scale structure of the universe with the aim of understanding how it evolved following the Big Bang. Over 25 years ago physicists were astounded by the discovery that the rate of expansion of the universe was increasing – not decreasing as had been previously thought. Many physicists believe that dark energy…

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In this articleBTC.CM=Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTWisdomTree is attempting to launch a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund even though its peers have failed.The firm filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week, making it its second bitcoin ETF application after an initial rejection two years ago.However, WisdomTree’s Jeremy Schwartz believes this time could be different. ”We’ve been able to successfully launch products in Europe,” the firm’s global chief investment officer said on CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “The European regulators have been more friendly, and they’ve been able to get comfortable with the mechanisms, the custodians [and] how the…

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by Trevor Kimball, July 1, 2023(Photo by: Freeform/Tom Griscom) Sam has run out of time to work things out. Freeform has cancelled Single Drunk Female, so it’s not getting a third season. The second season of 10 episodes wrapped in May. A single-camera comedy series, the Single Drunk Female TV show stars Sofia Black-D’Elia, Ally Sheedy, Sasha Compere, Lily Mae Harrington, Garrick Bernard, and Ian Gomez with Busy Phillips, Ricky Velez, and Charlie Hall will recur. Molly Ringwald guests. After a public flame-out at a New York media company, twenty-something alcoholic Samantha Fink (Black-D’Elia) is forced to seize the only…

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SATURDAY AM: Refresh for chart…and more analysis Disney/Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is still bound to open at the bottom of end of tracking’s projection of $60M as this morning. I saw an estimate in The Flash vicinity of $55M last night and took an Alka Seltzer out of shock. Hopefully Dial of Destiny doesn’t fall apart tonight and at least stays on course for a Mission: Impossible – Fallout type opening in the $60M range over three days. That figure might be good for exhibition and popcorn sales over the five-day holiday weekend, but it stinks…

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HELSINKI — A Chinese satellite manufacturer and constellation operator says it has successfully demonstrated space-to-ground high-speed laser communications which could help China break bottlenecks in getting data from space down to the ground. Changguang Satellite Technology (CGST) recently carried out the test with its Jilin-1 MF02A04 remote sensing satellite. The test was conducted in cooperation with the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).  Changguang Satellite Technology itself an offshoot from the state-owned Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Established in 2014, CGST now has…

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Pune-based developer SuperGaming has partnered with Google to add some accessibility features to its upcoming Indo-futuristic battle royale game, Indus. We’ve yet to see direct gameplay from the PC version, but the studio has confirmed that it has added custom support for Project Gameface, enabling further inclusivity that lets players control in-game actions using head movements and various facial expressions. The feature is largely aimed towards gamers suffering from cognitive or motor challenges and can be set up via a simple face scan through the Gameface app. SuperGaming recently showcased this technology at the Google I/O event in Bengaluru, letting…

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Friday he’ll give a second go at his student debt relief plan, rooting it in the Higher Education Act, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against his initial plan to forgive up to $20,000 per borrower.”I believe the court’s decision was a mistake, it was wrong,” Biden said, speaking from the White House. “We need to find a new way and we’re moving as fast as we can.”The Supreme Court ruled Friday in a 6-3 decision against Biden’s plan to cancel up to student loan debt for an estimated 40 million Americans. The venture…

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Play video content TMZ.com Metro Boomin’s longtime production partner — Southside — is pleased with Young Thug’s “Business Is Business” album … revealing the project came together super fast. We parlayed with Southside at LAX this week, who told us he was hoping YT’s new project topped the Billboard 200, especially with all the MacGyver magic they used to create the album. The album bowed at #2 on the charts … still not a bad consolation, seeing as the YSL rapper had to record over the phone to beef up his existing vocals due to his incarceration. But, Southside tells…

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In this articleMOFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTCigarettes were once prominently displayed in Hollywood films and glossy magazines. But decades of evidence that smoking kills has caused consumption to plummet. The tobacco industry sold fewer than 11 billion packs of cigarettes in the U.S. in 2020, down from more than 21 billion packs two decades earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.That has caused an existential crisis for tobacco companies. Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris USA and the nation’s largest tobacco company, reported an almost 10% drop in cigarette sales last year compared with the year prior. The maker of Marlboro says it wants to help smokers transition away from cigarettes…

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On Friday, Selena Gomez started wracking up the likes on Instagram with a couple of sultry selfies taken in what looks like her boudoir. With over six million faves from her fans already, the two pictures show Gomez lying down with her ear buds in wearing a red, low-cut top with spaghetti straps and scalloped edges.The singer has her hair down and appears to be wearing light makeup, with perfect eyebrows and a light pink lipstick. One image looked like a screenshot of a TikTok and she was glowing in both, which makes sense since she was promoting a self-tanning…

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Rarely do shows launch with as much heat as Fire Country did when it premiered in 2022. The show was instantly successful thanks to its ingenious plot and mostly loveable characters. In search of redemption and a reduced prison sentence, the youthful convict, Bode Donovan, embarks on a journey that leads him to a firefighting program. This unique opportunity returns him to his quaint Northern California hometown, where he, alongside a group of fellow inmates, collaborates with a distinguished team of elite firefighters. Together, they confront and conquer colossal infernos that ravage the region, embodying the courageous spirit that unites…

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Electric Literature recently launched a new creative nonfiction program, and received 500 submissions in just 36 hours! Now we need your help to grow our team, carefully and efficiently review submitted work, and further establish EL as a home for artful and urgent nonfiction. We’ve set a goal of raising $10,000 by the end of June. We’re almost there! Please give what you can today. The telenovela gets unfairly maligned as a “woman’s genre,” but its stories make the shows perfect vehicles through which to look at the lessons these hit dramas were teaching young boys like me. This is why Hombres,…

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In this articleFFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT2023 Ford Super Duty F-350 LimitedFordDETROIT — Let’s set a scene: A pickup driver and their spouse, the truck in reverse, attempting to align the hitch ball on the pickup with a coupler on the trailer. “A little left. No, your left. No, YOUR left. OK, now a little right. Never mind. Let’s try it again.”That familiar headache, among others, is why Ford Motor is souping up technologies on its most expensive pickups to make the vehicles more manageable for newer owners and ease major pain points for veteran truck drivers.The Detroit automaker…

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Jamie Dimon, CEO, JP Morgan Chase, during Jim Cramer interview, Feb. 23, 2023.CNBCLarge U.S banks including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley said Friday they plan to raise their quarterly dividends after clearing the Federal Reserve’s annual stress test.JPMorgan plans to boost its payout to $1.05 a share from $1 a share starting in the third quarter, subject to board approval, the New York-based bank said in a statement.”The Federal Reserve’s 2023 stress test results show that banks are resilient – even while withstanding severe shocks – and continue to serve as a pillar of strength to the financial…

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by Regina Avalos, June 30, 2023(Photo by: Showtime) Showtime has cancelled its plans for the new Seasoned TV series and a reboot of Gattaca, per THR. The cancellations come as the cable network’s programming was folded into the Paramount+ streaming service this week. A reboot of the 1997 film of the same name, the Gattaca series project was written by Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa, and Craig Borten. The story was to focus on a generation after the events of the movie, in a time when science and humanity have evolved to the point where humans can direct their own evolution. Sony…

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The National Association of Theatre Owners VP & Chief Communications Officer Patrick Corcoran is departing after 24-plus years. The news comes in the wake of NATO CEO and President John Fithian retiring after a 24-year run at the exhibition trade org. Together with Fithian, Corcoran, known for being a straight-shooter with the press, has had a wild ride, fighting on behalf of their members against theatrical-window crunching, trying to convince Netflix about the worthiness of theatrical, exhibitors’ situation with The Interview in 2014 following the North Korea Sony hack, contending with cinema closures during Covid, getting them bailout money during…

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WASHINGTON — After completing an upgrade to the International Space Station’s power system in June, NASA is moving ahead with plans to add two more solar arrays to the station. Boeing and Redwire announced June 28 that they signed a contract for a fourth pair of ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays, or IROSA, for the station. Redwire developed the array technology, known as ROSA, which uses solar arrays that are launched in a rolled-up form factor and then extend once in space. The companies had previously partnered on six IROSA arrays installed on the station starting in 2021. The third, and…

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Twitter will now require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that owner Elon Musk on Friday called a “temporary emergency measure”.Users who try to view content on the platform will be asked to sign up for an account or log into an existing account to see their favourite tweets.”We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk said in a tweet.He added that hundreds of organizations or more were scraping Twitter data “extremely aggressively”, affecting user experience.Musk has previously expressed displeasure at artificial intelligence…

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