In this image from video provided by NASA, the unmanned Boeing Starliner capsule undocks as it pulls away from the International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024.NASA | Via APBoeing’s Starliner undocked from the International Space Station on Friday, months later than the spacecraft was originally supposed to depart — and without the two astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early June.Instead, NASA test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will stay at the ISS for the rest of the year and will return to Earth in February aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft.It left the space station at 6:04…
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A “Now Hiring” sign is seen at a FedEx location on Broadway on June 07, 2024 in New York City.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesWhy there’s ‘slowing momentum’Employers added 142,000 jobs in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, a figure that was lower than expected.The good news: That figure is an increase from the 89,000 jobs added in July. The unemployment rate also fell slightly, to 4.2% from 4.3% in July.However, several metrics point to “slowing momentum” throughout the labor market, said Ernie Tedeschi, director of economics at the Yale Budget Lab and former chief economist of the…
Education Week reports that we are in a student mental health crisis. So does the surgeon general. Will taking cellphones away from kids while they’re in school help us get out of this crisis? I asked the science search engine Consensus to do a survey of studies on school cellphone bans and mental health. Consensus reviewed ten scientific papers on the topic and came to the following conclusion: “Some studies suggest that school cellphone bans can improve student performance and reduce bullying.” Bullying? How do you bully someone in class using your cellphone? Education Week hints that you pick on one kid, make fun of…
Christopher Waller, governor of the US Federal Reserve, during a Fed Listens event in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 22, 2024. A trio of central bank decisions this week sent a clear message to markets that officials are preparing to loosen monetary policy, reigniting investor appetite for risk.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller on Friday backed an interest rate cut at the upcoming central bank policy meeting in less than two weeks, and indicated he’d be open to a substantial reduction if necessary.”Considering the achieved and continuing progress on inflation and moderation in the labor…
Country veteran Dwight Yoakam has enlisted Post Malone for his first piece of new music in nine years. “I Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom)” leads the Kentucky-born singer-songwriter’s forthcoming studio album, Brighter Days—out November 15. Yoakam wrote the new song specifically for a duet with Post Malone, who recently went country on his new LP F-1 Trillion. Check it out below.Brighter Days is Yoakam’s first full-length since 2016’s Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…. The 12-track release features 10 originals, as well as covers of “Bound Away,” by Cake, and the Carter Family classic “Keeping on the…
WASHINGTON — Eighty-eight current and former top executives from across corporate America have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in a new letter shared exclusively with CNBC.Among the signers are several high-profile CEOs of public companies, including Aaron Levie of Box, Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp and Michael Lynton, chairman of Snap. Other signers appear to be issuing their first public endorsements of Harris since she became the de facto Democratic nominee in July.They include James Murdoch, former CEO of 21st Century Fox and an heir to the Murdoch family media empire, and crypto executive Chris Larsen, co-founder of the Ripple…
Karma and Kismet by Michael Shandler “The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance, yet better equipped to understand the … systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.” Author Michael Shandler, in more than one way, in more than one time and in more than one place, was on a lifelong journey of self-discovery, often relating to the words above by Aldous Huxley.…
Inside Antoni Porowski’s stylishly-appointed apartment, Daniel Craig’s suiting success and the power of good facial hair. Read the original article here
It hasn’t even been a year since Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli soldiers and civilians on the other side of the Gaza border, igniting a long and deadly conflict that is still very much ongoing. And yet, someone has already decided to go and shoot a movie about what happened. Is there such a thing as too soon when it comes to depicting the aftermath of a massacre, especially in a work of semi-fiction? And what about all the people still under threat, whether Palestinian or Israeli, as the catastrophic war continues to rage on? Of Dogs and…
A pilot performs a walkaround before a United Airlines flightLeslie Josephs/CNBCU.S. passenger airlines have added nearly 194,000 jobs since 2021 as companies went on a hiring spree after spending months in a pandemic slump, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Now the industry is cooling its hiring.Airlines are close to their staffing needs but the slowdown is also coming in part because they’re facing a slew of challenges.A glut of flights in the U.S. has pushed down fares and eaten into airlines’ profits. Demand growth has moderated. Airplanes are arriving late from Boeing and Airbus, prompting airlines to rethink…
Jennifer is coming for Tamra. Pic credit: Bravo Jennifer Aydin and Tamra Judge have been feuding over the last few months. The feud has been one-sided because Tamra has used her podcast, Two Ts In A Pod, to spew hate about the Real Housewives of New Jersey star. Tamra took issue with Jennifer and her fight with Danielle Cabral, with the Real Housewives of Orange County star conceding that Jennifer should not have made fun of Danielle’s husband on camera. “She’s just a nasty human being. That’s one woman on that show I despise. Despise,” Tamra said last month. “I…
Identifying anomalous operations of satellites is more than a technical task. It must depend on human intelligence gathering and advance warning. Missile launch detection and characterization is a longstanding example of how to overcome similar challenges. It is widely known that the United States operates high altitude satellites that perceive infrared emissions from rocket engines. The Defense Support Program, which operates reconnaissance satellites, has operated for decades. It is to be replaced in due course by the very publicized and more capable Space Based Infrared System. These systems can cover the whole Earth up to about 80 degrees latitude —…
It’s unfortunate but inevitable that reviewing Concord right now feels like writing its eulogy. Eight years in the making at a reported development cost of over $100 million, the first-person hero-shooter from Sony’s Firewalk Studios arrived on PlayStation 5 and PC on August 23. Two weeks later, Concord is dead. A live-service title, that was promising a roadmap of post-launch content updates over multiple seasons, didn’t even make it past summer. After the game’s calamitous launch, with an estimated 25,000 copies sold across PS5 and PC and an all-time peak player count of less than 700 on Steam, Sony seems…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the Federal Reserve should deliver a half-point interest rate cut at its forthcoming meeting, accusing the U.S. central bank of going “too far, too fast” with monetary policy tightening and making the inflation problem worse.His comments come ahead of Friday’s pivotal release of U.S. jobs data, with investors closely monitoring the August nonfarm payrolls count for clues on the size of an expected rate cut this month. The jobs data is scheduled out at 8:30 a.m. ET.Strategists have typically said that the most likely outcome from the Fed’s Sept. 17-18 meeting is a 25-basis-point…
Yi Gang was governor of the People’s Bank of China from 2018 to 2023. He is pictured here speaking at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, April 15, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSHANGHAI — China’s policymakers need to focus on boosting domestic demand, Yi Gang, former head of the People’s Bank of China, said Friday at the Bund Summit in Shanghai.”I think right now they should focus on fighting the deflationary pressure,” Yi said, adding that “the key word is: how to improve domestic demand, how they can successfully deal with the…
Megan Thee Stallion has released her new single, ‘Neva Play’, featuring RM of K-pop boyband BTS. Today (September 6), the ‘Mamushi’ rapper unveiled her new collaboration single ‘Neva Play’ featuring BTS leader and rapper RM. The K-pop star does not appear in its music video, instead an animated version of the duo use their superpowers to fight monsters and carry out a heist. “One, two, three, four (One, two, three, four) / Five, six, seven, eight (Five, six, seven, eight) / Let ’em know we on the way / Countin’ zeros everyday / You know that we neva play,” they…
[The stream is slated to start at 12:00 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.]Former President Donald Trump is addressing the Economic Club of New York as he sharpens his policy pitch in the final months of the 2024 presidential election.The Republican nominee’s remarks come after a series of economic policy proposals from his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Read the original article here
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Worlds of Origin? The story behind this book is deeply personal. It’s my first novel, and I’ve been working on it for what feels like forever. The idea began as a small seed—a fascination with the rise and fall of civilizations and the mysteries of the cosmos. Over time, that seed grew into an epic tale spanning 900,000 years, blending elements of science fiction and fantasy. I was inspired by classic space operas, but I also wanted to explore deeper themes like the nature of power, the consequences…