In this article AMZN AAPL FB GOOGL San Francisco Compassandcamera | Getty Images Many lawmakers are eager to rein in the power of the largest tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. But some of their proposals could actually hurt the smaller companies they’re meant to protect, venture capitalists warned CNBC. VCs are particularly concerned
Month: July 2021
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have now officially shared PDA on Instagram. For Lopez’s 52nd birthday, she posted a carousel of photos of her celebrating on a yacht in St. Tropez. “5 2 … what it do …,” she captioned the series of photos. The very last photo in the carousel might be of interest
The Walking Dead may be ending, but at least we have 24 episodes to say goodbye to this thrilling drama about survival. AMC on Saturday dropped the full-length trailer for The Walking Dead Season 11, and damn, do we have some questions. Off the bat, the series looks darker than before, and the show has
In this article AXP INTC SAM HON TWTR S3 Studio | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Snap — Shares of Snap soared roughly 24% after better-than-expected second-quarter earnings results. The social media company reported strong growth of users, engagement and ads. Twitter — Twitter shares gained 3.4% after reporting its fastest revenue
NEON has set a theatrical release date for its Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner Titane, the distributor’s second after Bong Joon Ho’s 2019 Parasite which continued on to win a historical Best Picture at the Oscars for a foreign film. Titane will be hitting theaters on Oct. 1. NEON acquired Titane back in September 2019. The pic, directed and written by French
In this article DIS Signage outside Caesars Palace hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday, May 02, 2021. Roger Kisby | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walt Disney executives won’t be traveling to Las Vegas next month to attend the National Association of Theatre Owners’ CinemaCon. The company cited growing concerns over the Covid-19
Scientists in China and the US have created extremely flexible and elastic microfibres from ice. These fibres, which defy the usual rigid and brittle nature of ice, exhibit excellent optical quality and have mechanical properties that are near ice’s fundamental limits. They could be used for optical applications, environmental sensors and to study ice physics,
WASHINGTON — NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch its Europa Clipper mission to a potentially habitable moon of Jupiter, a choice that appeared inevitable once NASA was no longer required to use the Space Launch System. NASA announced July 23 that it awarded a launch services contract to SpaceX for the October 2024
Battlegrounds Mobile India — the local avatar of PUBG Mobile — received a client patch on Saturday to fix some of the known issues. The update fixes a bug that was causing the battle royale game to be stuck at the loading screen when the player is wearing Unicorn-set outfits. There is also a fix
Bernie Madoff leaves federal court in New York on March 10, 2009. Jin Lee | Bloomberg via Getty Images Some people might argue that Bernie Madoff was grossly overpaid even at just 24 cents per hour for working as an orderly in prison. Madoff, the late Ponzi scheme king who ripped off thousands of people
News Liz Phair Cancels Tour Dates with Alanis Morissette and Garbage Cat Power will step in for Phair, who cited “unforseen circumstances” for the departure By Allison Hussey July 23, 2021 Facebook Twitter Liz Phair, May 2019 (Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Liz Phair has canceled her appearance on an upcoming summer tour
In this article ADM ICE FNV-CA TPL CRL INFL Rising inflation may threaten the market’s largest stocks, but it does have some potential beneficiaries. The Horizon Kinetics Inflation Beneficiaries ETF (INFL), which launched in January, identifies and groups those names to offer investors protection in inflationary environments, its co-portfolio manager James Davolos told CNBC’s “ETF
Dua: Instagram; Juicy: Getty Images; Courtesy of the brands. Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. It might have been the return of low-rise jeans that broke people. Every other aughts craze, from UGGs to Juicy Couture sweatsuits, had had its high-fashion moment by that point— the former
NBC has given viewers their first taste of La Brea, courtesy of a teaser trailer that finally sheds light on what the series is about. The series is described as “an epic adventure begins when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths.” Compelling,
California will strengthen the security of the debit cards it uses to issue unemployment insurance and other benefits following a wave of fraud, according to an announcement from the state’s Employment Development Department. The state agency plans to work with Bank of America to start rolling out chip-enabled debit cards to new claimants, as well
It’s a requirement this year for all of those attending CinemaCon 2021 to be fully vaccinated against Covid. As such, we hear that the theatrical exhibition-Hollywood studio confab will go on from Aug. 23-26 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV. This despite news that Disney won’t be sending executives or stars to CinemaCon out
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. To be a woman, or female-identifying, is to be a creature of contradictions. Women construct multiple personas to make themselves palatable in
WASHINGTON — Members of a Senate space subcommittee argued that the Commerce Department was not doing enough to implement policies on space traffic management (STM) or staffing the office responsible for it. At the July 22 hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee’s space subcommittee, senators said they were worried that slow action by the Commerce
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