They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but let’s face it, we all love a bit of sparkle. Especially when it’s glistening on your wrist. In this detailed guide, we’ll be taking a close look at some of the best diamond watches for men, handpicking a range of must-have designs from some of the
Today, the Ursula K. Le Guin Trust announces the Shortlist for the first Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize. The prize honors a book-length work of imaginative fiction with $25,000. The nine shortlisted books will be considered by a panel of five jurors—adrienne maree brown, Becky Chambers, Molly Gloss, David Mitchell, and Luis Alberto Urrea.
Self-driving tech start-up Pony.ai announced Thursday it plans to mass produce autonomous driving trucks with equipment manufacturing giant Sany Heavy Industry. Pony.ai BEIJING — Self-driving tech start-up Pony.ai announced Thursday it plans to mass produce autonomous driving trucks in China with equipment manufacturing giant Sany Heavy Industry. Annual production is set to reach about 10,000
A Frontier Airlines airplane taxis past a Spirit Airlines aircraft at Indianapolis International Airport in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Spirit Airlines terminated its merger agreement with Frontier Airlines on Wednesday, months after a rival bid by JetBlue Airways marred the planned tie-up. The announcement ends a
Taken from the July 2022 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline “Green-sky thinking”. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. The airline industry is emerging from COVID-19 with progress on de-carbonizing air travel, as James McKenzie discovers
TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX has applied for more spectrum to upgrade Starlink satellite broadband services for mobile users. The company asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission July 25 for permission to use the 2 GHz spectrum band to “augment” its mobile satellite services (MSS). Specific details about the next-generation services Starlink plans to provide were
In the summer of 2020, after a police officer killed George Floyd, Rockstar Games quietly shelved a mode of play it had planned to release for its Grand Theft Auto Online game. Called Cops ‘n’ Crooks, the mode was a twist on the children’s game where players organize into teams of good guys and bad
A screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping attending a virtual meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden via video link, at a restaurant in Beijing, China November 16, 2021. Tingshu Wang | Reuters WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s upcoming call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping will focus on areas of potential cooperation between the U.S. and
News Watch the New Trailer for Brett Morgen’s David Bowie Movie Moonage Daydream The film hits theaters globally on Friday, September 16 By Matthew Strauss July 27, 2022 Facebook Twitter David Bowie, photo courtesy of Cinetic Media Facebook Twitter Following a teaser trailer, the first official trailer for Brett Morgan’s new David Bowie movie Moonage
In this article META FTC Commissioner nominee Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 21, 2021. Graeme Jennings | AFP | Getty Images Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s lofty vision of bringing challenging cases to expand the bounds of
A is back—and possibly scarier than ever. HBO Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, a new spin-off of the original PLL series, promises to be even more menacing and chilling than the first. A Michael Myers-esque killer is threatening a new crop of Liars—played by Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria, Malia Pyles, and Maia Reficco—
Darren Star has been telling tales about people thrown out of their comfort zone masked as rom-coms for years, and Uncoupled follows the same framework as prior hits like Younger and Emily in Paris. The new comedy, premiering Friday, July 27 on Netflix, has an excellent cast and some funny one-liners, but it is very
Mr. Levis Strauss first designed the trusty, hard wearing denim jacket over 140 years ago. Once the uniform of American tough guys, hippies, and hip-hop legends, it’s now the cornerstone of every modern man’s wardrobe—whatever your style preferences. As with every popular menswear piece, it’s now produced in a wide range of styles and colors.
Iconic drag queen RuPaul was the first person to introduce me to the concept of chosen family. I was 18 and in love with the captain of my college swim team. Having been raised Catholic in the conservative Midwest, I had almost no context for my new self-discovery. I didn’t know anything about Stonewall, or
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday he does not believe the U.S. economy is in a recession as the central bank raised rates further to fight inflation. “I do not think the U.S. is currently in a recession and the reason is there are too many areas of the economy that are performing too
Families weren’t scared to return to the box office during the pandemic and have shelled out $300.9M to date on Illumination Entertainment and Universal’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, making it the first animated movie to cross the three century mark stateside during Covid, and since Frozen 2 opened back in November 2019. Rise of Gru, through 25
by Trevor Kimball, July 26, 2022 (Photo: Robert Trachtenberg/NBC) Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard still have some games to play. Though the NBC show has essentially been cancelled, there are still two new episodes of the Family Game Fight! TV series yet to come. A competition series, Family Game Fight! was inspired by Bell and
WASHINGTON — NASA is preparing to award a contract to a Boeing-Northrop Grumman joint venture for Space Launch System missions that could run through the middle of the next decade. The agency published July 26 a pre-solicitation notice for its Exploration Production and Operations Contract (EPOC), which would shift procurement of SLS launches to a