WhatsApp is reportedly working on a Read Later feature, that is essentially a rejig of what Archived Chats is right now. Read Later, as the name suggests, will keep all chats added to this list muted, and new message notifications for these chats won’t be offered to reduce frequent interruptions. Essentially, users can put all
President Trump’s Seven Springs estate in Mount Kisco, New York, seen here Sept. 30, 2020. Johnny Milano | The Washington Post | Getty Images The Manhattan district attorney’s office has expanded its criminal probe of President Donald Trump’s company to include a sprawling property in Westchester County, New York. A lawyer for the town of
On January 4, Dr. Dre was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering a brain aneurysm. Dre, who updated fans on his well-being shortly after news of his hospitalization surfaced, was kept at Cedars-Sinai’s intensive care unit for 11 number of days. Now, Dre has been released from the hospital to return
Jeff Housenbold, managing partner at SoftBank’s Vision Fund SoftBank SoftBank’s Jeff Housenbold, who led the Vision Fund’s investments in companies including DoorDash, OpenDoor and Wag, is leaving the firm later this year. SoftBank shook up the Silicon Valley investment world with the first Vision Fund in 2017, ultimately raising $100 billion, funded in large part
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. When Jen Mankins announced on Friday that she was closing her beloved store, Bird, she immediately started getting emails from customers. One of them, now a very successful real estate broker, recalled a day years ago when she was browsing the
Scream 5 will officially hit theaters one year from today, on January 14th, 2022. The official Twitter account for the highly anticipated sequel just made the announcement with an ominous tweet featuring the iconic Ghostface. “In ONE YEAR, I’ll know where to find you,” reads the caption. Ghostface is back, and he will definitely be
Viewers who embraced Selena: The Series late last year do not have long to wait for the final chapter. Netflix announced on Friday that all episodes of Part 2 will be available to stream Friday, May 14. The streamer also revealed that the series was watched by 25 million households in its first 28 days,
Hot stuff: scientists have shown that a chemical in chilli peppers can boost the performance of solar cell. (Courtesy: © Tomas Castelazo, www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons) Researchers at the Skoltech Institute of Science and Technology in Russia have used chemical sensors and imaging software to determine – in a contactless way – when a chicken
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. I have a confession to make: with nearly half a century behind me, I still read children’s books. The best are truly
by Trevor Kimball, January 14, 2021 (HBO) Last May, HBO renewed the Insecure TV series for a fifth season, and today, the cable channel announced that would also be the final season. Created by star Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore, Insecure follows a group of characters as they evaluate their relationships in an effort to
Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images $400 weekly boost Workers got $323 a week in state benefits, on average, in the third quarter last year, according to most recent U.S. Labor Department data. That aid replaced about 38% of their average pre-layoff wage, which was $843 a week. A $400 increase in
Lionsgate has slated Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar for a February 12 release on premium video on demand, the latest concession to a theatrical marketplace upended by Covid-19. The comedy, which was set up nearly two years ago, had originally eyed a 2020 release. It pairs Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who
WASHINGTON — NASA officials expressed confidence that a key test of the Space Launch System scheduled for Jan. 16 will go well, keeping open the chances that the vehicle will make its long-delayed debut before the end of the year. NASA has scheduled a full-duration static-fire test of the SLS core stage at the Stennis
Amazfit GTR 2e and Amazfit GTS 2e smartwatches will launch in India on January 19, as announced by the company. Along with the launch date, video teasers for the smartwatches were also shared by the company on Twitter, revealing specifications. Amazfit GTR 2e and Amazfit GTS 2e are the affordable versions of Amazfit GTR 2
Members of the National Guard arrive at the U.S. Capitol as Democratic members of the House prepare an article of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., January 12, 2021. Joshua Roberts | Reuters The Pentagon’s internal watchdog on Thursday announced an investigation into whether the military is doing enough to root out
Los Angeles local Hope Sandoval burst onto the scene in the mid-’90s as the melancholy singer and founder of the indie dream pop band Mazzy Star … they released their sophomore album So Tonight That I Might See on Capitol Records in 1993 and their track “Fade Into You” landed on the Billboard Hot 100
Jane Fraser, chief executive officer for Latin American at Citigroup Inc., speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg via Getty Images Citigroup is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings before the opening bell Friday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings: $1.34 a
Selena Gomez’s new music era started tonight—and well before midnight with the 7 PM EST release of her first Spanish single “De Una Vez” (“At Once” in English). The song, focused on healing after heartache, is Gomez’s foray in Spanish pop music ahead of the release of her upcoming new album Baila Conmigo (Dance With