There was a time when wearing clothes so baggy they needed a staple gun to stay on was less of style move, more your mum making sure you could make it through puberty in the same school blazer. But if you graduated any time in the last 15 years, chances are you grew up to
Delusion, when used as a literary device, is just another word for truth-seeking. Facts are not truth. Characters with irrational thinking have usually given the facts a try, and are frankly unimpressed. Instead, they develop an extreme conviction that, held up against the traditionally accepted facts or reality, seems ludicrous. Even dangerous. Yet I would
Brex Co-Founder & CEO Henrique Dubugras speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 02, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings | Getty Images Brex, the Silicon Valley lender to start-ups, is dropping tens of thousands of small business customers to focus on bigger venture-backed clients, according to
Sure sign of spring: cherry blossoms in Japan. (Courtesy: Yae Yamamoto/CC BY-SA 4.0) Around the world from Kyoto to Washington DC, people enjoy the blossoming of cherry trees as a rite of spring. In some places – notably Japan and South Korea – blossom festivals are vital for local economies, so it is important that
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Flies By $800M Worldwide; Becomes Tom Cruise’s Biggest Movie Ever – Deadline You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content June 17, 2022 8:58am Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has buzzed yet another box office milestone, this time flying past $800M globally. The worldwide
PASADENA, Calif. — In-space transportation company Impulse Space Propulsion, which raised $20 million in a seed round earlier this year, announced June 17 it raised another $10 million to help accelerate work on orbital transfer vehicles. Impulse Space said it raised $10 million from venture fund Lux Capital, which invests in “frontier technologies” like space.
Sony is launching its new PlayStation Plus in India next week. The update brings the service in four tiers, namely Essential, Extra, Deluxe, and Premium. While the Essential is the base version, Deluxe and Premium are the top tiers — depending on which market you are in. The new PlayStation Plus is aimed to help
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images The chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot on Thursday said that the
Drake‘s first music video from his new album is a giant not-so-inside-joke — and while he and Tristan Thompson are laughing … Khloe Kardashian is definitely not. 😑 Drizzy dropped the vid for “Falling Back” Thursday night, and it’s a full-on wedding party, complete with him saying “I Do” to his beautiful brides. Yes, plural
U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell takes questions after the Federal Reserve raised its target interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to stem a disruptive surge in inflation, during a news conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) in Washington, June 15, 2022. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters
Selena Gomez, who skyrocketed to stardom as a teen on the Disney Channel, reflected on how being in the public eye in her youth led to her being sexualized at a young age. She opened up on The Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actress Roundtable after Amy Schumer, who joins her in the new season of Only
By the end of For All Mankind Season 3 Episode 2, the future of NASA’s space race is clear. Danielle will helm the first manned mission to Mars, and in the wake of that development, another entity has joined the race, giving former NASA pilot Ed Baldwin an opportunity to fly his own mission to
In South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, Imani Perry, an Alabama native, returns to the South and meets with Southerners to chronicle their stories, past and present—from Henry Bibb, an enslaved man from New Orleans forced to rub salt brine into the bleeding back of
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. NASA/Kim Shiflett SpaceX has fired at least five employees involved in circulating a letter around
Fixed asset investment data for the first five months of 2022 showed real estate investment declined at a greater scale than it did during the first four months of the year. Pictured here on May 16 is a development in Huai’an City in Jiangsu province in east China. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images
More box office milestones here as the theatrical business bounces back and the pandemic eases: Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness crossed $400M yesterday at the domestic box office during its 41st day of release. The movie is still the second highest grossing film of 2022 to date behind Top Gun: Maverick, which beat it to $400M
The chairman’s mark brings up concerns about creating opportunities for new players to compete in the National Security Space Launch program WASHINGTON — House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) in a draft version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act pushes for changes in military launch services procurement, calling on the Space
Snapchat is reportedly working on a subscription plan and it could give users access to multiple features including the ability to pin a conversation. With the rollout of Snapchat+, users may have to pay to access exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features on the social media platform. With the premium subscription, Snapchat users will get custom