Remember the season two premiere of The White Lotus when Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy) runs screaming from the beach? She’s just seen some corpses—R.I.P., Tanya; ciao, high-end gays—and between the dead bodies and filthy rich husband, she’s obviously distraught. But along with the corpses and cuckolds, there’s one less obvious reason to panic: Turns out, that gorgeous Missoni Mare bikini she wore in the water is actually dry clean only, with a label that reads, “To get the best from your Missoni Mare beachwear, we advise that you do not wear it to swim.” (Mare translates to “sea” in Italian.)“I…
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With every passing week, the end is nigh. We are three weeks away from the series finale, and The Blacklist Season 10 has taken us on a surprise ride. The season has seen Raymond do a complete turn and become a do-gooder without expecting anything in return. As the finale approaches, so does Raymond’s fate. Yet, we have seen him remain unbothered, moving on with his life as if everything is okay. It has been hinted that Raymond is planning something, and based on some of the actions he has taken, it is something big. Most of the time, we,…
Back in 1959, Colin MacInnes offered up the following description of a young gadabout-town in his novel Absolute Beginners: “College-boy smooth crop hair with burned-in side part, neat white Italian round-collared shirt, short Roman jacket, very tailored (two little vents, three buttons), no-turn-up narrow trousers with 17-inch bottoms and absolute maximum, pointed-toe shoes, and a white mac folded by his side.”Nowhere in Absolute Beginners is the word “mod” mentioned, but MacInnes’ Dean Swift embodies the ethos, from the look (sharp, clean, outward-looking), to the milieu (the jazz clubs and coffee shops of late ‘50s Soho), to the attitude (aspirational, smart,…
Wearable MEG Researcher Niall Holmes wears the brain imaging helmet; the matrix coil magnetic shielding system is seen behind him. (Courtesy: University of Nottingham) A UK-based research team has created a wearable brain scanner that can measure brain function whilst people are standing and walking around, paving the way for better understanding and diagnosis of neurological problems that affect movement. As part of the project, a University of Nottingham-led team combined compact sensors with precision magnetic field control to measure tiny magnetic fields generated by the brain, enabling highly accurate recordings to be made during natural movement. The results, presented…
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. In the climactic moment of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Toto the terrier moves aside the Technicolor-green curtain to reveal that the Wizard is a mere mortal, pulling and twisting at levers to…
Supersizer | E+ | Getty ImagesThere are two broad categories of life insurance, and data suggests many households aren’t buying the most cost-effective one.Americans bought 4.1 million term insurance policies in 2021, accounting for 40% of all individual policies purchased that year, according to the most recent data from the American Council of Life Insurers. About 6.3 million policies, or 60%, were permanent life insurance.But this doesn’t seem to jibe with financial advisors’ general recommendation.”Most people just need term insurance,” said Carolyn McClanahan, a certified financial planner based in Jacksonville, Florida, and a member of CNBC’s Advisor Council.More from Personal…
Tysons Corner, Virginia USA — June 27, 2023 — Andrew Pemberton has been named Chief Executive Officer of SpaceNews, Inc., the world’s largest space-industry trade media brand. A SpaceNews board member since 2014, Pemberton added the title of Chief Marketing Officer in 2022 before moving to the new CEO role. He replaces longtime CEO Greg Thomas, who will transition to Chief Technology Officer. Pemberton has worked with SpaceNews owner and chairman Felix Magowan and CTO Greg Thomas in various roles since 2005, as Brand Director, Interactive Director, and Publisher, and most recently as CEO of Pocket Outdoor Media (rebranded as…
iPhone 15 series — comprising the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max — is expected to make its debut later this year as the successor to the iPhone 14 series of smartphones. While Apple is not likely to announce its next generation of handsets for another couple of months, a display supply chain analysis firm has suggested that Apple could see strong demand for the iPhone 15 series later this year. The new iPhone models will run on iOS 17, the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system that was unveiled at WWDC…
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Tuesday he does not know if former President Donald Trump is the “strongest” Republican candidate to compete against President Joe Biden in 2024.”Can he win that election? Yeah he can,” McCarthy said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “The question is, is he the strongest to win the election?””I don’t know that answer,” McCarthy said.”But can anybody beat Biden? Yeah, anybody can beat Biden. Can Biden beat other people? Yes, Biden can beat them. It’s on any given day,” he added.The remarks on CNBC offered a rare lapse in McCarthy’s usually firm posture of support for…
Snoop Dogg’s biopic is being set for a big-scale movie production … and Tha Doggfather personally selected Allen Hughes to direct his life story!!! Allen recently had Snoop take part in his docuseries “Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur” and says Snoop’s request caused Universal to fast-track the film — and they’re currently looking for their leading man!!! Allen famously got his start directing rap videos with his twin brother Albert before they went on to achieve legendary status in the culture for shooting the films “Menace II Society” and “Dead Presidents.” He hasn’t done an actual…
U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019.New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services | Handout | Reuters”Significant misconduct” by federal Bureau of Prisons staff made it much easier for sex predator Jeffrey Epstein to kill himself in a New York jail in August 2019, a Department of Justice watchdog said in a new report Tuesday.The 120-page report, which made eight recommendations to the BOP to address “numerous issues,” also said that “the combination of…
During the latest stop on her No Hard Feelings press tour, Jennifer Lawrence once and for all shut down internet rumors saying that she and her Hunger Games co-star Liam Hemworth had an affair while he was still with Miley Cyrus. Lawrence was playing Plead the Fifth on Watch What Happens Live when she was asked about the conspiracy theory that Cyrus insinuated in her “Flowers” music video that Hemsworth cheated on her with Lawrence. “Flowers,” of course, is believed to be about Hemsworth. Cyrus wore a gold dress in the visuals, similar to the one Lawrence wore at the…
This is Bobby’s (Damian Lewis) world, and everyone else is just living in it — at least, that’s what he’d like you to believe. Showtime has gone public with the trailer for Billions Season 7, and it promises an intriguing conclusion to some of the series’ longest-running arcs. “America, the land of the free, opportunity and self-determination,” says Bobby at the beginning of the clip. “But you can’t escape your enemies — ’cause I’m back now, and I’m wide awake.” It marks the first footage of Lewis as Bobby since he left the show on Billions Season 5, and we’re…
Much like a ripple effect, it was a Pebble that started it. Not one made of stone but one made of circuitry and plastic. Back in 2013, California-based smartwatch brand Pebble made history on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding site launched in 2009. It managed to raise a record-breaking $10.3m (approximately £8m) to launch its techy timepiece, an amount it surpassed when it crowdfunded its follow-up, this time raising $20.3m (£16m).Pebble’s success was not only the start of the global smartwatch trend, it also opened up a non-traditional route to new watch brands without an immediate pot of start-up capital at their…
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. My mother has read hundreds of books aloud to me. The titles changed over the course of my childhood—as my brother and I graduated from picture books to doorstopper paperbacks, fantasy to historical fiction, middle…
In this articleMETAEBAYAMZNFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTLocked up merchandise, to prevent theft in Target store, Queens, New York. Lindsey Nicholson | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesThe Inform Act, a new law that aims to curb organized retail theft and the sale of counterfeit and harmful products on online platforms, takes effect Tuesday as more retailers blame theft as a reason for lower profits. The bipartisan legislation, which stands for Integrity, Notification and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces, passed in December as part of an omnibus spending bill, more than a year after it was introduced by Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.,…
Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional is rebalancing its investment portfolio for greater resilience against market volatility, according to its managing director.Khazanah’s net asset value declined 5% to 81 billion ringgit ($17.4 billion) in 2022 from a year ago, hit by global market downtrends, the fund said in March. The Kuala Lumpur-based fund invests more than half of its portfolio in public markets.”What we are focused on doing here is to look at how we can be a bit more resilient in the market,” Khazanah’s managing director Amirul Feisal Wan Zahir told CNBC Monday on the sidelines of the Energy…
Noisy but nice: close up of part of IBM’s Eagle quantum processor, which was used in this latest research. (Courtesy: IBM) A 127-qubit quantum processor has been used by an international team of researchers to calculate the magnetic properties of a model 2D material. They found that their IBM quantum computer could perform a calculation that a conventional computer simply cannot, thereby showing that their processor offers quantum advantage over today’s systems – at least for this particular application. What is more, the result was achieved without the need for quantum error correction. Quantum computers of the future could solve…