A pile of U.S. dollar banknotes. Chris Clor | Tetra images | Getty Images In March last year, a top venture capital firm described Covid-19 as the “black swan of 2020.” “Private financings could soften significantly, as happened in 2001 and 2009,” Sequoia Capital told portfolio company founders and CEOs in a memo reminiscent of
Shares of publicly traded move chains fell sharply Monday while broader markets rose as Disney’s Black Widow helped drive the post (ish) pandemic box office to new highs but plenty of viewers siphoned off to Disney+, raising an alarm or at least a lot of questions. AMC Entertainment, the biggest U.S. chain, saw its shares
Motherhood Made Her a Literal Dog 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. Nightbitch That night, as she waited in bed beside the boy, her husband lounged in a
WASHINGTON — A House appropriations subcommittee advanced a spending bill July 12 that would provide NASA with a small increase over what the administration proposed for fiscal year 2022, but does not address some key areas of concern. The commerce, justice and science (CJS) subcommittee favorably reported a spending bill that provides $25.04 billion for
Global PC shipments grew 45 percent year-on-year to 75.6 million in the first quarter of 2021, according to a market research report. Lenovo retained its market leadership, and was followed by HP and Dell. The growth in the shipments of key PC vendors is forecast to continue in the coming months. However, the global chip
U.S. President Joe Biden, center, speaks during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, July 12, 2021. Sarah Silbiger | UPI | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Joe Biden met with U.S. police chiefs and elected officials at the White House Monday to discuss his plan
News Thom Yorke and Radiohead Share “Creep (Very 2021 Rmx)”: Listen A slowed-down new rendition of the Radiohead classic By Evan Minsker July 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Thom Yorke (Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Radiohead’s hit song “Creep” has received a new remix courtesy of Thom Yorke. It’s called “Creep
In this article BA A Boeing 787-10 aircraft being built for Singapore Airlines (front, left) sits in the Final Assembly Area with other aircraft before a delivery ceremony of the first Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner at Boeing South Carolina in North Charleston, South Carolina, United States March 25, 2018. Randall Hill | Reuters The Federal Aviation
Beyoncé shared another generous look at her summer wardrobe this afternoon, posting a captionless gallery of photos on her Instagram. This time, Bey was in a mini yellow Mara Hoffman dress with pops of neon blue and orange. She accessorized with bold dangle earrings, navy-framed sunglasses, and a micro blue purse. Bey was seen wearing
What a surprise! Jordan and Simone didn’t get remarried on All American Season 3 Episode 18. As soon as the spinoff All American: Homecoming was announced, that development was inevitable. Still, the narrative that transported viewers to that obvious conclusion was well handled. There was even that TV trope, the replacement ceremony. And, best of all,
In this article PFE 22UA-DE Former Obama administration official Dr. Kavita Patel told CNBC on Monday she expects a Covid vaccine booster will, eventually, be authorized by U.S. regulators due to new, more transmissible coronavirus variants. “With the threat of the delta variant and potentially other looming variants in the future, it seems like it’s
COVID-19 catalyzed another recession, but these industry leaders pivoted and persevered. What do companies like Microsoft, Apple, Netflix and Airbnb all have in common? Aside from billion-dollar valuations, these industry titans were all founded amid recessions, scaling to the pinnacle of success in the aftermath. Spanning from 1975 with the conception of Microsoft during a
In an effort to combat an increasing number of Delta variant Covid cases, France is set to introduce tighter restrictions affecting cultural activities beginning July 21. From that date, it will become mandatory for those over 12-years-old to show the official EU Digital Covid Certificate (or “health pass”) to access all cultural and leisure venues
by Regina Avalos, July 10, 2021 Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2020 Cursed premiered last July on Netflix, and fans of the series have been waiting to see if the series would return. Its fate has now been revealed, and Cursed has been cancelled by Netflix, per Deadline. There will not be a second season.
High harmonics: a NIR pulse (red) is focussed, and high harmonics are generated in a gas jet that is placed before or behind the NIR focus. The generated XUV light (violet) has a size and divergence that are like the NIR beam. The process involves the multiple ionization of atoms in the gas, which is
Sylvia Petter recalls Austrian writer Friederike Mayröcker, who passed away June 4, not long after the book-themed TV series ÜBER featured her in its first episode. Friederike Mayröcker passed away on June 4, 2021, in Vienna, aged ninety-six. She was farewelled to Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” and was laid to rest on June
In this article COF TROW RCL CCL GS CAKE Pedestrians wearing protective masks wait to enter a Disney store in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Virgin Galactic — Shares of Virgin Galactic were down 14%
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. At first glance, I believe that all fiction is about intimacy. The act of reading is a search, driven by curiosity and