The Nauru ring road runs right around the Island nation of Nauru.(C) Hadi Zaher | Moment | Getty ImagesSam Bankman-Fried’s younger brother, who was a top lobbyist for failed crypto exchange FTX, considered purchasing the island nation of Nauru in the Pacific to create a fortified apocalypse bunker-state, a lawsuit filed in Delaware bankruptcy court shows.Gabe Bankman-Fried was looking at buying Nauru in the “event where 50%-99.99% of people die” to protect his philanthropic allies and create a genetically enhanced human species, according to the suit filed on Thursday by attorneys from Sullivan & Cromwell, which is seeking to recover…
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Return To Dust, an arthouse hit in China last summer before being pulled from release, opens Stateside this weekend with Film Movement presenting on two screens – NYC’s BAM Rose Cinema and the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, expanding to LA and Seattle next Friday. The distributor acquired the film directed by Li Ruijun after it premiered in Berlin in March, 2022 to glowing reviews, see Deadlines’s here. Hai Quing and Wu Renlin star as a middle-aged couple in a rural province encouraged to marry by their families, who see them as a burden. Love and respect slowly as…
TAMPA, Fla. — Amazon announced plans July 21 to build a satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, as it prepares to start launching 3,200 commercial Project Kuiper broadband satellites next year. The 31,000-square-meter facility Amazon expects to complete in 2024 at Kennedy’s runway-equipped Launch and Landing Facility will perform final preparations of Project Kuiper satellites shipped in from out of state for launch aboard Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance rockets. Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance, together with Europe’s Arianespace, are expected to perform up to 92 Project Kuiper launches under a blockbuster launch deal announced…
Acer Nitro 16 was launched in India on Friday, quipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS octa-core processor in two GPU variants — GeForce RTX 4060 and GeForce RTX 4050. The models have 16-inch LED-backlit TFT LCD screens and customisable 4-Zone RGB backlight keyboards. Notably, the company released the Acer Swift Edge 16, the Acer Predator Triton 16 the Acer Aspire 5 model earlier this year in May and over the past couple of months. The 2023 Acer Aspire 5 with the 13th Gen Intel Core i5 1335U processor is priced in India at Rs. 70,990.Acer Nitro 16 price in India, availabilityAcer Nitro 16…
U.S. President Joe Biden gives a thumbs up as he walks with first lady Jill Biden to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House July 14, 2023 in Washington, DC.Drew Angerer | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Morgan Stanley is crediting President Joe Biden’s economic policies with driving an unexpected surge in the U.S. economy that is so significant that the bank was forced to make a “sizable upward revision” to its estimates for U.S. gross domestic product.Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is “driving a boom in large-scale infrastructure,” wrote Ellen Zentner, chief U.S. economist for Morgan Stanley,…
Waka Flocka Flame’s 2010 party-starter cut “No Hands” is officially legendary, after crossing the 10 million sales threshold. The RIAA delivered the good news Friday … prompting Wale to shout out Waka and the track’s other contributors, Roscoe Dash and producer Drumma Boy, who handled the dynamite beat. Drumma Boy tells TMZ Hip Hop about the track’s creation … “[The song] felt special and I felt like the conductor. I saw Roscoe in the corner and really one of the only people really locked in rapping to himself. I said what you got bro … go in the booth!!!” He…
In this articleAZN-GBSAN-FRFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA doctor is injecting a vaccine to a baby boyKarl Tapales | Moment | Getty ImagesSanofi expects its infant RSV shot to roll out in the U.S. before respiratory virus season this fall, a company spokesperson said Friday.The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Beyfortus, a monoclonal antibody that is administered as a single dose to infants before or during their first respiratory syncytial virus season.related investing newsJPMorgan says this little-known biotech company could rally 66%Hakyung Kim6 hours agoThe Sanofi spokesperson said the company does not expect any challenges with manufacturing or…
The Summer I Turned Pretty isn’t just about the romance; it’s also about the music—especially when there’s Taylor Swift involved. Ever since the Prime Video series premiered last year, it has held a soft spot in Swifties’ hearts, as the pop star’s music soundtracked episodes and snippets of new releases even appeared in previews. (Ahead of season 2, “Back to December (Taylor’s Version)” was first teased in the new season trailer ahead of the Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) release.) Even beyond Taylor, the range of the series’ musical taste is even more impressive, thanks to music supervisors Nicole Weisberg and…
One of the biggest film franchises will expand on Peacock later this year. We’ve heard plenty of details about The Continental, the forthcoming John Wick spinoff series, and we finally have a confirmed premiere date. During the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel on Friday, the streaming service announced The Continental: From the World of John Wick will premiere Friday, September 22, followed by Night 2, airing September 29, and Night 3, airing October 6. While many SDCC panels have had to pivot to having no talent present due to the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, the show’s creative team was present…
The Most Iconic Barbie Story Ever Told AM Homes Share article A Real Doll by AM Homes I’m dating Barbie. Three afternoons a week, while my sister is at dance class, I take Barbie away from Ken. I’m practicing for the future. At first I sat in my sister’s room watching Barbie, who lived with Ken, on a doily, on top of the dresser. I was looking at her but not really looking. I was looking, and all of the sudden realized she was staring at me. She was sitting next to Ken, his khaki-covered thigh absently rubbing her bare…
LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers at a game against the LA Clippers at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on July 30, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.Mike Ehrmann | Getty ImagesAs Disney considers a strategic partner for ESPN, Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger and ESPN head Jimmy Pitaro have held early talks about bringing professional sports leagues on as minority investors, including the National Football League and the National Basketball Association, according to people familiar with the matter.ESPN has held preliminary discussions with both the NFL and NBA about a variety of new partnerships and investment structures,…
For three years, ever since the Covid 19 pandemic hit the United States in 2020, there have been two factions at war over the origins of Covid. One group says Covid came from bats in the caves near Wuhan, China. Another group says that Covid was a virus cooked up by the Chinese in their Wuhan Institute of Virology and deliberately spread to the United States. What’s worse, they say, America’s National Institutes of Health under Dr. Anthony Fauci financed the research that led to Covid. Now the Biden administration has made a move that many supporters of the Wuhan-lab…
Stephen Frink | The Image Bank | Getty ImagesInvestors can get swept away by the fear or euphoria of the recent past — and it often costs them financially.”Recency bias” is the tendency to put too much emphasis on recent events, like a stock-market rout or the meteoric rise of bitcoin or a meme stock like GameStop, for example.related investing newsThese stocks are about to break out, according to the bullish golden cross chart formationYun LiNick Wells2 days agoThis high-risk global bond fund isn’t for everyone, but it’s tempting investors with a 10% yieldGanesh Rao3 days agoInvestor choices are guided…
Taking care of longer hair is more than just finding a quality shampoo and conditioner, it’s about finding the best hair ties for men. With most hair ties being marketed towards women, it can be confusing to know which ones are best for guys.The good news is, men’s hair is no different than women’s. Hair ties that women love are just as great for men. But there are hair ties men might prefer based on color, hair type, hold, and how well they comfortably secure your hair. There are even brands designed specifically with men in mind, which is pretty…
EXCLUSIVE: The box office event of the year which has Warner Bros. mass female attraction, Barbie, and Universal’s Christopher Nolan directed, Oppenheimer, has officially fired off its confetti guns with the movies seeing respectively an estimated $20M and $9M+ from their previews. Again, these numbers could fluctuate by morning. Even if Barbie falls short of $20M, she’s bound to post the best previews of this summer; Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 having grossed $17.5M on its Thursday night (which included $400K Imax showtimes on Wednesday). The Greta Gerwig directed feature take on the Mattel doll has previews which…
CLEVELAND — Three months after rolling out the first phase of its architecture for human exploration of the moon and Mars, NASA is heading into a second phase that will focus on Mars. NASA released its first architecture definition document in April for its overall “Moon to Mars” campaign of human exploration. That 150-page document linked more than 60 objectives previously established by NASA for long-term exploration with its plans for the initial series of Artemis lunar missions, the first of four segments for the overall architecture. “We connected objectives to what we’re planning to do in our first four…
WhatsApp is rolling out support for Wear OS smartwatches, allowing users to access the popular messaging app on their wrists. The app was previously introduced on the WhatsApp beta update channel and is now available to all users. WhatsApp is offering support for a handful of features that will allow users to quickly respond to messages without reaching for their smartphone. There’s no word from the Meta-owned messaging platform on plans to introduce WhatsApp for watchOS, Apple’s operating system for its smartwatches.The arrival of Wear OS support for WhatsApp was announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday. In order…