WhatsApp is rolling out a feature designed to protect users from unwanted calls on the messaging platform. The Meta-owned app will allow users to simply toggle a setting that will silence calls from spam and nuisance callers. These calls typically come from numbers that are not part of a user’s contact list, and the new feature is designed to prevent calls from unknown numbers from disturbing the user. WhatsApp users who do not enable this setting will hear their phone ring when any other WhatsApp user — including those not in their contact list — calls them using the app.On Tuesday,…
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U.S. Representative George Santos (R-NY) speaks to the media as he leaves Central Islip Federal Courthouse in Central Islip, New York, May 10, 2023.Eduardo Munoz | ReutersThe identities of the people who guaranteed Rep. George Santos’ $500,000 bond in his criminal fraud case will be revealed Thursday at noon ET, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.Judge Joanna Seybert’s order in U.S. District Court in Long Island came less than two weeks after the Republican lawmaker’s attorney argued that the bail backers’ identities should be kept private because of the “media frenzy” surrounding the case.Other sealed documents in the case, including Seybert’s…
Nio’s ET5 stands on display at the Central China International Auto Show on May 25, 2023, in Wuhan, China.Getty Images | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese electric car company Nio announced Tuesday it received $738.5 million in new capital from a fund owned by the Abu Dhabi government.The strategic investment ultimately gives the fund, CYVN Holdings, a 7% stake in Nio.The deal was priced at $8.72 a share, a release said. That’s 6.7% below where Nio’s U.S.-listed shares closed Tuesday, down by about half a percent.Nio earlier this month said lackluster car deliveries was affecting cash flow,…
Play video content Pharrell Williams is getting tons of love from Hollywood — even across the pond — as the new men’s creative director for Louis Vuitton … his debut show was packed with some huge stars, from A to Z. Ya gotta see who all showed up for Pharrell’s Tuesday night show at the famed Pont Neuf in Paris … we’re talking Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, Kim Kardashian, Naomi Campbell, Megan Thee Stallion and more. The show was for LV’s Men’s Spring-Summer 2024 Collection exposé and it also drew the likes of Anitta, Zendaya, Maluma, Offset, Coi Leray, Tyler,…
U.S. President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participate in a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on September 24, 2021 in Washington, DC.Pool | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet President Joe Biden on Thursday during his first state visit to the U.S.High on the agenda will be deepening of defense ties, partnerships in technology and India’s role in the Indo-Pacific.Ties between India and the U.S. are at a turning point and the relationship between the two nations have improved in the last decade, said Harsh V.…
A 30-year-old Indian woman named Eshita Kabra-Davies is speaking before a rapt audience at the United Nations. She has long amber hair and is wearing an olive green maxi dress, and leans into the microphone with forward-forcing energy, like it’s the top frame of a Peloton. Speaking with steely calm, Kabra-Davies touches on the impact of single-use plastic on the Global South, the importance of female-led enterprises to uplift global economies, and the shock of seeing fast fashion landfills mar the dunes of Rajasthan. Near the end of her time at the podium, she stares down the room of CEOs…
Netflix is switching things up to provide more clarity to consumers about which of its shows are resonating with viewers. In the past, Netflix has focused on the total hours watched for its movies and TV series, but now, the streaming service will rank these projects based on the number of views. To get that number, the number of hours watched will now be divided by the runtime, which gives a more level playing field because some shows have dominated based on having more episodes alone. To that end, Netflix will continue to show hours viewed per title, but the…
Let’s say you’re a seasoned traveler with a borderline obscene amount of passport stamps and airline miles. Or a road warrior with a Buc-ee’s obsession, one too many sling bags, and mysterious clout with the AAA executive team.Hell, maybe you just like bags. Regardless of your travel pedigree, you owe it to yourself to take a trip through this list of the best leather duffle bags known to man. And woman. And spoiled toy-breed dogs. The duffle should be considered a staple in any luggage collection—the leather component ups the aesthetic ante, but not in a way that’s obnoxious or…
In the first few pages of Helen Elaine Lee’s Pomegranate, protagonist Ranita recalls a moment when her father gives her the titular fruit. She breaks the pomegranate open, “awed by the wild design of it…a whole world, strange and crazy-beautiful, underneath the skin.” In many ways, this scene serves as a metaphor for the novel itself; it is, on the surface, about Ranita being released from prison, working to reunite with her children, trying to understand her queerness, and maintaining her sobriety, but the story is ripe with so much more. Through alternating past tense sections written in third person…
Photo by JR P / FlickrIn her new essay collection, These Particular Women (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2023), Kat Meads writes about famous twentieth-century women, mostly authors. In this short excerpt, she ventures into Flannery O’Connor territory.It had been a rainy night in Georgia, and there followed a rainy day. Four miles north of Milledgeville proper and directly across from the Super Inn & Suites, the modest, close-to-earth sign that marked the entrance to Flannery O’Connor’s Andalusia wasn’t easy to spot and required, in response, a hard swerve left across two lanes of oncoming traffic. A narrow dirt road threaded through…
In this articleBBBYFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA Buy Buy Baby store in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBed Bath & Beyond is working on another last-ditch effort to keep one of its chains alive.The retailer said in court papers it will run a separate sale process for Buy Buy Baby — considered the crown jewel of its assets — as it moves forward with the auction of its Bed Bath & Beyond chain.The separate sale process gives the retailer more breathing room to nab a bid from…
For women, once you hit your 40’s you’ve reached the pre-menopausal years when your estrogen supply slowly begins to dwindle and decline. You might start to see your skins texture change, which will affect the way you wear your make up as well as the way you actually wear your skin. Your skin can tend to be less moist, begin to get dull and you might notice fine lines and wrinkles become deeper. The good news is that we are able to change the trajectory of how we age and how  skin looks and functions. Aside from applying moisturizer every…
WASHINGTON — SpaceLogistics, a satellite-servicing firm owned by Northrop Grumman, announced June 20 it has three confirmed orders for its Mission Extension Pods that will fly to orbit on servicing missions in 2025. Intelsat ordered the third and last pod available on the debut mission of the company’s new servicing spacecraft, called Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV). Australian communications satellite operator Optus was the first customer to sign up for the Mission Extension Pods, which are propulsion jet packs that add six years to the life of geostationary satellites. Intelsat in April said it purchased one of the pods, followed by…
NoiseFit Crew Pro smartwatch has been launched in India on Tuesday, June 20. The latest offering from the Indian wearables manufacturer comes in three different colour options. It features a 1.4-inch display, with support for Bluetooth calling equipped with Tru Sync. The NoiseFit Crew Pro features over 100 watch faces and several smart health monitors including heart rate and blood oxygen level sensors, a sleep tracker, and a female health tracker. The smartwatch is said to offer up to seven days of battery life.NoiseFit Crew Pro smartwatch price in IndiaThe newly launched NoiseFit Crew Pro smartwatch is available for an…
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that U.S. leaders “need to deal with Social Security” and vowed not to shy away from entitlement reform if he becomes the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.”We have to look at things like means testing for the very wealthy [who] don’t need to get Social Security,” Christie said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.””And secondly, for people in their 30s and 40s we need to consider, you know, raising the retirement age,” he said.Christie, one of the latest entrants in the primary race, delved into his campaign policy platform in between attacks on former President…
NewsDoja Cat, Faye Webster, Slowdive, the Smile, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects PlaylistOur weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeatBy PitchforkJune 20, 2023FacebookTwitterGraphic by Marina KozakFacebookTwitterThe 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…
In this articleGCIGOOGLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTGannett-USA Today headquarters building in McLean, Virginia.Paul J. Richards | AFP | Getty ImagesUSA Today publisher Gannett is suing Google for allegedly illegally monopolizing the advertising technology market, adding to an already extensive list of lawsuits against the company for alleged anticompetitive behavior.”With control over the largest ad exchange and ad server — both of which Google acquired rather than developed — Google has carried out a sophisticated, anticompetitive, and deceptive scheme for well over a decade,” Gannett argued in a complaint filed in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. The…
Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you’re here), love books. Perhaps one of their favorite titles will become one of yours, too.Now 10% OffEveryman’s Library published Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore in 2020, but Moore’s latest, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (Knopf) is her first novel since 2009. The author of four story collections, three other…