Bullshitting Our Way Through a Long Beijing Summer Xu Zechen Share article On the Rooftop by Xu Zechen, translated by Jeremy Tiang My head throbbed and I felt a bright bird bursting from it. Having broken its metallic body free, it flapped its wings harder and harder, gleaming silver in the late afternoon sun. If
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In this article MS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Starbucks opened its 6,000 store in mainland China in September 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese consumer spending won’t return to pre-Covid levels anytime soon, a problem for international brands such as Starbucks, Morgan Stanley said in a report Sunday. Not
In this article GPS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Gap logo is displayed at a Gap store on April 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Gap reported another quarter of net losses and declining sales across its four brands but the retailer insisted it’s making progress – and
Refresh for latest…: Apart from big new opener The Little Mermaid, which we detailed here, this weekend was notable for propelling Universal’s Fast X past the $500M mark globally, and Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to over $730M worldwide. The Fast & Furious franchise had, earlier this week, crossed $7B globally while the
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded L3Harris Technologies a contract worth $80.8 million to conduct communications experiments using multiple commercial space internet services. Under a program called Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI), AFRL is working with defense contractors and commercial satcom providers to figure out how to integrate commercial space
China’s cyberspace regulator said 1.4 million social media posts have been deleted following a two-month probe into alleged misinformation, illegal profiteering, and impersonation of state officials, among other “pronounced problems”. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a statement on Friday it had closed 67,000 social media accounts and deleted hundreds of thousands of
A sign for the financial agency Fitch Ratings on a building at the Canary Wharf business and shopping district in London, U.K., on Thursday, March 1, 2012. Matt Lloyd | Bloomberg | Getty Images WASHINGTON — A stark new warning from the Fitch credit rating agency about U.S. debt added fresh urgency Thursday to ongoing
Jennifer Hudson‘s definitely ruffled some feathers with the revelation a luxury bag gifted to her, by a rising Black designer, is now in a thrift store — but even the designer insists haters should lay off the singer. Sonique Saturday tells TMZ … Jennifer is completely good in her book. In fact, she’s urging folks
“Now Boarding” is a weekly podcast about air travel and the business of flying. CNBC airlines reporter Leslie Josephs and CNBC senior producer Erin Black delve into topics like turbulence, airline status, boarding, jumbo jets and all things aviation. Watch this episode and others on CNBC’s YouTube channel every Sunday. On this episode of “Now Boarding” Leslie and Erin discuss how airlines are
Spoilers below. Ever since Succession’s first episode, viewers have been trying to answer the show’s central question: who will get a kiss from daddy? In other words, who will succeed media titan Logan Roy at the helm of his empire? Battles have been fought, alliances have been broken, and Logan himself has breathed his last
And that’s all there is from the Roy family. Succession Season 4 Episode 10 found Logan’s legacy to be three broken children at each other’s throats, with more pain between them than any of them really deserve. It’s one of the Disgusting Brothers a the top, and the king has his queen. Who woulda thunk
Traders react as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is seen delivering remarks on a screen, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, March 22, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The market has long been pricing in interest rate cuts from major central banks toward the end of 2023,
Making progress: this latest achievement in entanglement could lead to better quantum computers. (Courtesy: iStock/Devrimb) A protocol for entangling microwave and optical photons has been demonstrated by researchers in Austria. This has the potential to help to overcome one of the central issues in the formation of a quantum internet by allowing microwave frequency circuits
A24’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus-starrer You Hurt My Feelings will top an estimated $1.7 million in limited nationwide release for the four-day holiday weekend, at the high end of expectations on 912 screens. That puts it at no. 8 at a domestic box office where Little Mermaid is making all the waves. Breakdown: Friday – $474k; Sat.
WASHINGTON — A software glitch kept a lunar lander from properly determining its altitude, leading to a crash on its landing attempt last month, Japanese company ispace announced May 26. The Tokyo-based company said its investigation into the failed landing of its HAKUTO-R M1 lander April 25 concluded that the onboard computer disregarded altitude information
Global smartwatch shipments witnessed a decline of 1.5 percent year-on-year (YoY) in the first quarter of 2023, as per the latest report by market research firm Counterpoint. Still, India managed to register 121 percent year-over-year growth in shipments fuelled by high demand for low-cost wearables made by local brands such as Fire-Boltt, Noise and boAt,
Former US President Donald Trump’s supporters gather outside the Capitol building, January 6, 2021. Probal Rashid | LightRocket | Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he would make it a “day one” priority as president to issue pardons for people who are deemed to be victims of “political targeting,” and implied former President
Taylor Swift and Ice Spice in “Karma,” directed by Taylor Swift News Watch Taylor Swift and Ice Spice in New “Karma” Video Plus, the rapper joined Swift onstage last night for the live debut of the remix By Nina Corcoran May 27, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Taylor Swift has shared a new music video
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