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On Friday night, Florence Pugh left the Chiltern Firehouse with friend Jacob Smith wearing a stunningly sexy jumpsuit by Moschino in fire engine red from their Resort 2024 collection. The body-hugging cut featured a halterneck bodice with a plunging neckline and wide legs. Across her torso a gold chain was fastened, punctuated with a gold heart pendant. Pugh wore the look with jewelry from Tiffany & Co. around her neck and on her wrist and a pair of black open-toe platform heels from Aquazzura. She was carrying a black handbag on a long gold strap. Pugh’s hair was freshly bleached…

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Finales carry expectations, and Good Omens Season 2 Episode 6 does that thing where it closes out some plotlines and leaves others twisting in the wind like so many tangled kite strings. The solution to Gabriel’s amnesia turns out to be a story of growing beyond the role he was created for. His relationship with Beelzebub humanizes them both for better and worse. Meanwhile, Crowley and Aziraphale also reach a tipping point in their relationship. And we’re left twisting. As far as mysteries go, there weren’t a lot of signposts that Gabriel’s condition was the result of a forbidden love.…

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Viewing cryptocurrency as “digital gold” may be a mistake.State Street Global Advisors’ George Milling-Stanley, whose firm runs the world’s largest gold exchange-traded fund, believes cryptocurrency is no substitute for the real thing due its vulnerability to big losses.”Volatility does not back up any claims for crypto to be a long-term strategic asset as a competitor to gold,” the firm’s chief gold strategist told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” earlier this week.Milling-Stanley’s firm is behind SPDR Gold Shares, the world’s largest physically backed gold ETF. It has a total asset value of more than $57 billion as of last week, according to the…

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In this articlePFEMRNANVAXFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA pharmacist delivers a COVID-19 booster dose at a Chicago CVS store.Antonio Perez | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesA new round of Covid vaccines is coming to the U.S. this fall — but many Americans may not roll up their sleeves and take one.That’s largely because pandemic fatigue, the belief that Covid is “over” and confusion over personal risk levels could deter some people from getting an additional shot, experts in public health and health policy told CNBC.But they said public health officials and health-care providers could potentially increase uptake of the…

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Very early figures here for Barbenheimer given their wonderous first week. So early we don’t have the figures for Disney’s Haunted Mansion previews yet, nor the official studio numbers. But it’s another sexy $20M+ day for Barbie with an estimated $21.4M on Thursday (-7% from Wednesday), ending its first week at $258.6M. The pic should easily become the fastest female demo feature to $300M, beating the 10 days that it took Beauty and the Beast to cross. We’ll update you with Warners’ official number soon. Among all Warner Bros Thursdays, Barbie is fourth after The Matrix Reloaded ($37.5M, May 15,…

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by Trevor Kimball, July 28, 2023(Photo by: Dash Pictures) The magic is gone already. The CW has cancelled the Fantastic Friends TV series after just two airings. The show has been renewed for a second season, but it’s unlikely that the US network will be airing it. A light-hearted docu-series, the Fantastic Friends TV show stars James and Oliver Phelps, aka the Weasley twins from the Harry Potter movies. Part adventure-travel series and part a celebration of friendship, the cameras follow the Phelps twins as they travel around the globe, from Iceland to Ireland, from St. Lucia to Dubai. The…

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TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX launched EchoStar’s more than nine metric ton Jupiter-3 spacecraft July 28 and successfully dropped off the world’s heaviest commercial communications satellite in geosynchronous transfer orbit. The Maxar Technologies-built satellite lifted off on a dedicated Falcon Heavy at 11:04 p.m. Eastern from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, separating from the rocket about three and a half hours later. Both Falcon Heavy side boosters landed at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station just over seven minutes after launch for reuse. They had supported two earlier Falcon Heavy missions, both for the U.S. Space Force: USSF-44 in November and USSF-67…

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Epic Games on Thursday asked the US Supreme Court to allow a lower court ruling to take effect against Apple that could force the iPhone maker to change payment practices in its App Store.Epic, maker of the popular video game Fortnite, filed a request asking the nation’s highest court to lift a July 17 decision by the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals to pause its ruling that upheld an injunction against Apple. The decision gave Apple 90 days to pursue an appeal at the Supreme Court.In the closely-watched case, Epic filed its antitrust lawsuit in 2020 challenging…

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In this articleDISFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTAn entranceway to Walt Disney World on February 08, 2023 in Orlando, Florida.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesA judge on Friday denied Disney’s bid to dismiss or pause a state court lawsuit related to its bitter feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over control of a special tax district around the company’s Orlando theme park.The ruling in the state-level case is separate from Disney’s ongoing federal lawsuit accusing DeSantis and his allies of waging a political retaliation campaign against the entertainment giant over its opposition to a controversial classroom bill last year.”Today’s decision has…

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NewsDrake Bought Tupac Shakur’s Ring at Sotheby’s Auction for $1 MillionThe late rapper wore the custom gold, diamond, and ruby crown ring during his final public appearance in 1996By Allison HusseyJuly 28, 2023FacebookTwitterDrake (Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage)FacebookTwitterDrake has been identified as the buyer of a gold, ruby, and diamond crown ring that Tupac Shakur wore during his final public appearance. He paid $1,016,000 for it at a Sotheby’s auction, according to a press release. The late Shakur designed the ring himself, and wore it to the MTV Video Music Awards in early September 1996. Take a look at the piece…

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In this articleBALMTFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTGPS, or the Global Positioning System, is the oldest and most widely used satellite navigation system in the world with 6 billion users. GPS is owned by the U.S. government and run by the Space Force, an independent military branch that’s organized under the U.S. Air Force. GPS was initially designed as a military tool and is used for things like missile guidance and drone operation. But the technology has also become indispensable to the lives of civilians.”If we had an attack on the system, you know, it could really bring so many areas…

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That’s the way you begin a season. We knew how Tom Spade died, and we knew how it affected his sons, but we never knew what happened in the immediate aftermath. With Jack and Ace once again at odds, Heels Season 2 Episode 1 gives us a peek into how Jack began leading the DWL and how Ace became its leading man. It’s a perfect time to go down that dark and winding road. Jack made a terrible mistake putting his own feelings and hopes for the DWL’s success before his brother. Sure, siblings do that kind of stuff on…

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When I was 16, a teacher handed me a copy of The Joy Luck Club because it was a book about “people like me.” At night, in parking lots, guys like me rattled four-bangers, hoping to leave Hangul-like skid marks on blacktops while trying to decipher the art of donuts. Guys like me tried to work up the courage to ask someone to hang, hoping to tie tongues as the sun dropped behind the evergreens. Guys like me played football, hoping to get a shot at the guy who liked to whisper chink in the hallways as he passed our…

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Time’s arrow: Researchers in Germany and the Netherlands have explored the relationship between thermodynamics (represented by the smashing glass) and quantum mechanics in a photonic quantum processor. (Courtesy: Florian Sterl/Sterltech Optics) Physicists in the Netherlands and Germany have shown that the theories of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics are both valid ways of describing the behaviour of photons in a quantum processor. The results, obtained by researchers at the University of Twente and the Freie Universität Berlin, open the door to a deeper understanding of how to reconcile these two great theories. Thermodynamics and quantum mechanics are cornerstones of modern physics,…

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KPMG is offering high schoolers paid internships to help fix accounting’s staffing shortage.By her own admission, Autumn Kimborough, 17, didn’t have a passion for accounting. But the rising high school senior from Flossmoor, Illinois, heard about a well-paid summer internship at KPMG, which included a $250 clothing stipend, and got excited.For the first time, the Big Four accounting firm organized a three-week session geared toward high schoolers with the specific goal of encouraging younger adults to consider a career in the field, according to Jennifer Flynn, KPMG’s community impact lead.Nearly 200 teenagers are participating in the summer internship program, which pays…

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A4’s supernatural horror Talk To Me opens the debut film by Australian brothers and popular YouTubers Danny and Michael Philippou on 2,300 screens. Strong reviews (see Deadline’s here), A24 large built-in fan base and its elevated horror cred saw a Thursday gross of $1.25 million, looking to top a $4-5M weekend. The Sundance-premiering pic follows a group of friends who discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand and become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces. Michael Philippou gleefully freaked out a Comic-Con event last week with a…

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WASHINGTON — Sierra Space won an Air Force contract to continue development of an engine that could be used in the upper stage of future launch vehicles. Colorado-based Sierra Space received a $22.6 million contract from the Air Force Test Center July 25 to mature the design of its VR35K-A engine. The contract will allow continued work on the engine, such as development of “flight-weight engine component design,” according to a Defense Department procurement notice. Sierra Space and its corporate parent, Sierra Nevada Corporation, have been working on the VR35K-A engine design for several years with support from the Air…

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Meta Platforms executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new Twitter rival Threads, after the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its buzzy launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday.Retention of users on the text-based app was better than executives had expected, though it was “not perfect,” said Zuckerberg, speaking at an internal company town hall, the audio of which was heard by Reuters.”Obviously, if you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it would be awesome if all of them or even half of them stuck around. We’re…

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