In this article UBER Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at a product launch event in San Francisco, California on September 26, 2019. Philip Pacheco | AFP via Getty Images Uber said Wednesday it will spend $250 million on a one-time stimulus aimed at getting drivers back on the road, as states begin to pull back
Samantha Morton’s highly-praised run on The Walking Dead may be over, but it gives the beloved actress time to sink her teeth into a new role. According to Deadline, Morton has locked in her next role, and it’s an exciting one! The two-time Oscar-nominated actress will play Catherine de Medici in the new Starz Original
By: Hannah Pell On 29 March 2021, the Biden administration announced another ambitious clean energy goal: deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. According to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the U.S. offshore wind capacity was 28,521 megawatts (or 28.5 gigawatts) in 2019. Deploying an additional 30 gigawatts over a decade
You Must Be Middle-Aged and Jaded to Ride the Torrent River Elizabeth McCracken Share article 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. “Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark” by Elizabeth
In this article CCL Travelers trying to board the Carnival Panorama cruise ship for a 7 day trip were met with a delay in Long Beach on Saturday, March 7, 2020. The ship sent a letter to passengers explaining a non specific medical issue is preventing them from disembarking the ship and allowing new passengers
In this article TSLA XPEV NIO ZE594-CN Chinese battery and electric vehicle maker BYD shows off a model of its Han EV series at the 2020 Beijing auto show. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — Chinese automaker BYD sold more than twice as many battery-powered electric cars as start-up Nio delivered in March. BYD, which
The artificial tendon material developed by UCLA materials scientists. Credit: Sidi Duan, Shuwang Wu, Mutian Hua, and Ximin He/UCLA A strong, flexible and tough hydrogel that contains more than 70% water could be used to make durable artificial tendons and other load-bearing biological tissues. The new hydrogel was made by researchers at the University of
Third-party streaming ratings firm Samba TV reports that 3.6 million households watched at least five minutes of Warner Bros./Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong on HBO Max in the pic’s first five days from March 31 to April 4. While HBO Max didn’t provide any official viewership figures on Godzilla vs. Kong, previous data from Samba shows that
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft announced plans April 6 to move automated satellite image processing technology developed by Thales Alenia Space into its Azure Orbital platform. With Thales Alenia’s DeeperVision software, “images downlinked by Earth observation satellites can be immediately and systematically analyzed as soon as they are produced,” according to a Thales Alenia news release.
Outriders — the new co-op RPG shooter from Poland-headquartered People Can Fly, the studio behind Gears of War: Judgment and Bulletstorm — is an always-online experience. That’s not new for video games in today’s day and age, more so when you’ve got a co-op title like Outriders that allows friends and/or strangers — depending on
Chinese citizens walks past a sign for Beijing’s Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China. Lintao Zhang | Getty Images WASHINGTON – The State Department denied Tuesday evening that it was considering a joint boycott alongside allies of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. “Our position on the 2022 Olympics has not changed. We have
News Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson Cast in New Scorsese Movie Killers of the Flower Moon Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio are starring in the upcoming thriller By Noah Yoo April 6, 2021 Facebook Twitter Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson photos via Getty Images Facebook Twitter Killers of the Flower Moon is the next
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have updated its guidelines on cleaning household surfaces well before this week, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health said Tuesday. “It’s incredibly frustrating,” Dr. Ashish Jha told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith.” “I think I was starting to say by last April and
It’s something you can’t contest — New Amsterdam Season 3 has no qualms about tackling all sorts of issues without apology, and it isn’t pulling any punches. The series is taking some big swings, and New Amsterdam Season 3 Episode 6 dedicated most of the hour to exploring systemic racism and discrimination. It also had Helen
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. A letter arrived for my birthday addressed to another woman. Despite years of marriage, my family forgets I never changed my name.
In this article GM The new 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 makes its official debut at the 2018 North American International Auto Show January 13, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Bill Pugliano | Getty Images DETROIT – Shares of General Motors reached a new record during intraday trading Tuesday after the automaker confirmed plans to produce an
For the 44th Annual Writers Week, the University of California, Riverside Department of Creative Writing, in partnership with the LA Review of Books, honored three US Poets Laureate with Lifetime Achievement Awards: Rita Dove (1993–95), Juan Felipe Herrera (2015–16), and Joy Harjo (2019–present). As part of honoring these poetry luminaries—three visionaries representing barrier breakage in
Universal Pictures has scheduled George Clooney and Julia Roberts’ next movie together, Ticket to Paradise, for Sept. 30, 2022. Uni already had the release date reserved for an event film on the theatrical release calendar. Ticket to Paradise currently follows the weekend after Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish sequel on Sept. 23 and ahead of