A Taliban fighter stands guard at the entrance of the police headquarters in Ghazni on August 12, 2021, as Taliban move closer to Afghan capital after taking Ghazni city. AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON – The Biden administration will deploy 3,000 troops to Afghanistan in order to facilitate the drawdown of personnel at the U.S. Embassy
Kyle Little, chief operating officer at New York-based wholesale distributor Sherwood Lumber, told CNBC on Thursday that the recent slide in lumber prices has rekindled demand after a massive runup earlier this year challenged the affordability of building projects. “Over the last three weeks we’ve seen renewed interest,” the industry veteran and former lumber trader
If you built a very expensive telescope, would you hitch it to a balloon and fly it 40 km above the surface of the Earth? That is what Mohamed Shaaban at the University of Toronto and an international team will do next year when they launch their SuperBIT telescope on NASA’s superpressure balloon. Shabaan explains
Kim Boudreau Smith is passionate about helping women find (and use!) their bold voices. A born entrepreneur with 25-years as a leader in Corporate America, Kim rocks at showing female entrepreneurs and high-performing professional women how to develop their speaking confidence, level up their presence, and increase their profitability. Kim’s raw, slightly rebellious, and always
Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein has been set to star as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, which will serve as the first Broadway revival of the iconic musical that premiered in 1964 with Barbra Streisand in the role. It is scheduled to begin performances in spring 2022 at a Broadway theatre to be announced. The new
In this article SONO BMBL UTZ CYB-FF PLTR EBAY Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Palantir Technologies (PLTR) – The software platform company matched Wall Street forecasts with adjusted quarterly earnings of 4 cents per share and revenue beating analyst forecasts. Sales rose 49% from a year ago, and the stock rallied
TAMPA, Fla. — Satellite broadband startup OneWeb has secured $300 million of strategic investment from Hanwha, the South Korean conglomerate with plans for its own megaconstellation. Hanwha bought an 8.8% stake in OneWeb through its defense division Hanwha Systems, which acquired British antenna startup Phasor Solutions last year as part of its growing space ambitions.
Realme Narzo 10 is receiving the Android 11 update in India. The Android 11-based Realme UI 2.0 update comes with the firmware version RMX2040_11_A.47 and the rollout is being carried out in a phased manner. The Realme Narzo 10 was launched last year in May. It ran on Android 10 software out of the box.
News Thom Yorke Remixes MF DOOM’s “Gazzillion Ear”: Listen The “Thom Yorke Man on Fire Remix” is his second take on the Born Like This track By Matthew Ismael Ruiz August 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Thom Yorke at the Rome Film Festival, in Rome, Italy, October 24, 2020. (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/WireImage)/MF Doom performs at
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp arrives at the “Tech for Good” Summit in Paris, France May 15, 2019. Charles Platiau | Reuters Data-analytics company Palantir released its second-quarter earnings, beating Wall Street’s expectations for revenue and giving upbeat guidance for the current quarter. Shares of the company were up more than 5% premarket. Here’s how
The new iteration of Gossip Girl is finally finding its footing, but the teachers dragged an otherwise solid episode down. Gossip Girl (2021) Season 1 Episode 6 — the midseason finale — was filled with drama. It had so much, but much of that drama was centered around Jordan, Kate, Wendy, and Rafa. If there’s
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. Nawaaz Ahmed has a particular talent for fiction that captures the spaces in between distant bodies. When we were both MFA students
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she is ready to take over as governor from Andrew Cuomo in two weeks, and vowed not to have a “toxic” workplace, as Cuomo allegedly has had for three terms. Hochul also said she would get rid of any Cuomo staffer who was involved in “unethical”
Dr. Peter Hotez told CNBC that he’s glad the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance and urged pregnant women to get vaccinated, especially in light of the widespread misinformation campaigns geared toward pregnant women. “Unfortunately, the bad guys, the anti-vaccine groups, put out a lot of fake information claiming that Covid-19 vaccines
After the industry’s and Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson’s ire over Disney’s day-and-date strategy, Disney returns to the theatrical-window form this weekend with Free Guy, the video game-inspired romantic comedy starring Ryan Reynolds and directed by Shawn Levy. It’s Disney’s first wide release respecting a theatrical window since 20th Century Studios’ horror pic The Empty Man
Any decision on whether to restart a rocket development will be driven by market opportunities HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A year after discontinuing the development of its OmegA rocket, Northrop Grumman is not completely ruling out a future attempt to get back in the national security launch market, company executives said Aug. 11. “We do continue
Battlegrounds Mobile India has banned over 336,000 players for using illegal programmes to gain advantage in some form. Krafton shared the development on the game’s official website and said that it has investigated cases between July 30 and August 5. Additionally, the game has crossed 48 million downloads, which is the first phase of its
Yella Beezy is in police custody in Texas, where he’s been arrested on weapon and drug charges … TMZ has learned. The rapper was busted Wednesday for possession of a controlled substance and unlawful carrying of a weapon … according to records. The drug charge is a felony and the weapons charge is a misdemeanor.