A JD.com truck receiving incoming goods and preparing shipments at the Northeast China-based Gu’an warehouse and distribution facility in Gu’an, Сhina.XiXinXing | iStock Editorial | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in midday trading.Biogen — Shares of the biotech stock dipped 3% after Biogen revamped its board of directors. Three current board members will not run for reelection, while the company’s former head of corporate strategy Susan Langer was nominated to the board, Biogen said Monday.Oracle — Shares rose 2.7% to an all-time high on the back of a strong earnings report for the fiscal fourth quarter. Oracle reported…
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WASHINGTON — House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) on June 12 released his proposed bill for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, known as the chairman’s mark. The full committee will consider Rogers’ mark on June 21. Rogers in the bill adds another twist in the contentious battle over the proposed relocation of U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama. The move has been on hold pending DoD and Air Force reviews. The bill would prohibit U.S. Space Command from spending money on new or improved facilities at its current headquarters at Peterson Space…
WhatsApp is reportedly working to introduce a new feature with the rolling out of version 2.23.12.20. The new feature is currently available to users subscribed to the Google Play Beta Program, and could reach the messaging app’s global users in the coming weeks. This new feature is reportedly called the ‘Channel Notifier’. This feature, which is currently under development, will allow the WhatsApp users to get a notification whenever the app will roll out Channels feature to their region.Last week, WhatsApp, owned by Meta, rolled out new ‘Channels’ feature where users can select organisations from which they want to receive…
European officials are looking at ways to use Russian assets to repay for the reconstruction of Ukraine.Global Images Ukraine | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe European Union is getting closer to brokering a detailed plan on how to use frozen Russian assets to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine, a senior official told CNBC.The EU has confirmed that there are more than 200 billion euros ($215.5 billion) and a separate 20 billion euros ($21.5 billion) in assets across the bloc that belong to the Russian central bank and to Russian private individuals, respectively. These assets were frozen by European…
NewsArlo Parks Announces Debut Book The Magic BorderThe musician’s poetry collection also includes the lyrics to every song from her new album, My Soft MachineBy Evan MinskerJune 13, 2023FacebookTwitterArlo Parks, photo by Daniyel LowdenFacebookTwitterArlo Parks has announced a new poetry collection. The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments From My Soft Machine is out September 12 via HarperCollins and its imprints 4th Estate and Dey Street Books. The book features 20 new poems, plus lyrics from Parks’ recent album My Soft Machine.In a statement, Parks discussed her new collection:Writing poetry, to me, is about profound interiority. It is about wading into…
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, speaks about China Competitiveness Legislation alongside Democratic Senate committee chairs at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, May 3, 2023.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is set to host the first of three educational sessions about artificial intelligence on Tuesday as Congress considers how best to regulate the technology.Schumer announced Monday on the floor of the Senate that Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Antonio Torralba, a machine learning expert, would lead the first of the senators-only sessions. Tuesday’s talk is set to offer a…
When PinkPantheress appears onstage at Governors Ball, there is a purse, as always, on her shoulder. This one’s a striped Kate Spade shoulder bag that pairs nicely with the rest of her decidedly Y2K look: dark wash jeans from home, a strapless minidress that she thrifted from Barcelona, a Tank Air tube top, and a pair of heavy boots. “The wig is from some dispensary. I’m not too sure,” she tells me later after yesterday’s set, pointing to her silky-straight brunette locks and bangs. It’s a very Gen Z aesthetic for a Gen Z superstar, who has seen a meteoric…
Are you ready to head down under for the next chapter in the NCIS franchise? The beloved CBS franchise is headed to Sydney with the appropriately titled NCIS: Sydney. While the series was confirmed quite a while ago, we’re only now learning who will be on the cast. The series is in the works for Paramount+ and Network 10 and includes familiar faces for U.S. audiences. Olivia Swann (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) is set to lead the series as NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey, alongside Todd Lasance (Home and Away, The Vampire Diaries) as Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey. The cast…
Spoiler alert: shirts can be left untucked. Some are designed to hang free, while others just look better that way. Your dad may not have received the memo, but since when did you start listening to anything he said?If you’re the kind of guy that likes a little fabric around his tooshie, then the best untucked shirts should be firmly on your radar. But with so many options readily available, where do you go to find the crème de la crème? I’m glad you asked. Keep reading for my lowdown on the finest shirts money can buy. You’ll find a…
I wake early each morning, before the kids, to write and see the real city—my private Brooklyn curving in on itself, the prose poem of citywide snow removal and garbage pick-ups, geese migrating over Kings County rooftops in V-formation. The humor, the horror, the wonder. How to chronicle it all? I don’t feel like it’s actual writing unless I burn out my computer, smoke puffing from its mechanical gills, in the same liminal state of system overdrive I find myself in daily. So I sit behind my smoking MacBook Air, a woman with a story to tell. I touch my…
In this articleGMFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTTrucks come off the assembly line at GM’s Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup truck plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 25, 2018. John Gress | ReutersDETROIT – General Motors announced plans Monday to invest $632 million for production of its next-generation full-size pickup trucks at a plant in Indiana.The investment is the automaker’s third such announcement in the past week involving GM’s next-generation large trucks and SUVs, which are based on the same vehicle architecture and share some internal parts. The investments announced in recent days total more than $2.1 billion.GM said the…
Join the audience for a live webinar at 6 p.m BST/1 p.m. EDT on 28 June 2023 exploring efforts to enable a future paradigm involving sustainable chemical processes for producing fuels and chemicals based on renewable resources Want to take part in this webinar? Modern society relies on large-scale chemical processes for producing fuels and chemicals that drive many key sectors, including transportation, agriculture, and manufacturing, among others. To date, fossil resources have served as the primary feedstock and provided the vast majority of the energy demanded by the global economy. There are many challenges to the current paradigm, as…
YNW Melly’s career essentially came to an end in 2019 after he was arrested and charged with double homicide … but his streaming has seen a resurgence as of late. On Monday, Melly’s trial kicked off in Florida’s Broward County court, where it was uncovered the 24-year-old rapper had absolutely zero RIAA certifications on his wall at the time of his arrest on February 13, 2019 … but now has 10 platinum plaques and 6 gold. #YNWMellyTrial: Melly was arrested February 13, 2019 with 0 @RIAA certifications. TODAY: He has 10 Platinum Certifications, 6 Gold Certifications. #ynwmelly #lawandcrime pic.twitter.com/aA3xZmyzBc— Bryson…
Alex Newell of Shucked and J. Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot broke ground Sunday night as the first openly nonbinary Tony Award winners. Newell won for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical and Ghee for Best Actor in a Lead Role in a Musical. Both drew huge ovations with acceptance speeches that struck both stirringly emotional and disarmingly funny chords. “Thank you for seeing me, Broadway!” Newell said. “I should not be up here as a queer, nonbinary, fat black lil’ baby from Massachusetts.” She added, “To anyone that thinks they can’t do it, I’m going…
NEW YORK — A bill introduced in the House to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration includes a provision directing the agency to get involved in space traffic management, potentially duplicating ongoing work at the Commerce Department. The bipartisan leadership of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee introduced the FAA reauthorization bill June 9. The committee is scheduled to mark up the bill, advancing it to the full House, June 13. One section, 600 pages into a 773-page bill, is intended to address risks from orbital debris reentering and passing through airspace. The bill refers to such objects as “covered airborne…
Samsung has reportedly made the Google Wear OS 4-based One UI 5 Watch software update available to select beta testers in the US and South Korea. The update will allow owners of a Galaxy Watch to transfer their watch data and settings to a new phone without a factory reset. The feature is said to be available via the Galaxy Wearable app on Samsung smartphones. The upcoming Samsung One UI 5 Watch update is also expected to bring new features such as a Sleep Insights user interface and smart health monitors like a personalised heart rate zone.According to a report…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the Miami International Airport, Miami, June 12, 2023.Win Mcnamee | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump touched down in Miami on Monday afternoon, a day before he is expected to make his first appearance in court to face federal charges that he willfully retained scores of documents that contained some of the nation’s most sensitive military secrets.But without a local lawyer to represent him in court, Tuesday’s appearance could be cut short, sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. In that case, Trump would go to the courthouse to surrender, but…
In this articleAMZNFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTPackages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon Fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022.Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmazon is turning to artificial intelligence to help users find the right product.The e-retailer recently began testing a feature in its shopping app that uses AI to summarize reviews left by customers on some products. It provides a brief overview of what shoppers liked and disliked about the product, along with a disclaimer that the summary is “AI-generated from the text of customer reviews.”A mobile…