Offline messaging app Bridgefy said it was downloaded more than 600,000 times in a few hours in Myanmar, after the country’s military seized power on Monday and temporarily disrupted Internet traffic. The Mexico-based startup, which gained popularity during Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests in 2020, tweeted that it hoped people in Myanmar would find its app
U.S President Donald Trump returns to the White House after news media declared Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden to be the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Washington, U.S., November 7, 2020. Carlos Barria | Reuters After members of his first legal team quit, former President Donald Trump has acquired a pair
Colombian band Bomba Estéreo have announced their first studio album in four years. Deja arrives this spring via Sony US Latin. Today, the group has shared lead single “Agua,” featuring Lido Pimienta, plus two other songs called “Deja” and “Soledad.” Check out all three songs, including the “Agua” video directed by Bomba singer Liliana “Li”
A Boeing 777X airplane flies above the Boeing Everett Factory David Ryder | Reuters Boeing cut its backlog of 777X planes by more than a third after the aerospace giant announced fresh delays to its newest plane’s debut, according to a new securities filing. The Chicago-based manufacturer last week said it doesn’t expect the 777X
Megan Fox may not be engaged to Machine Gun Kelly yet, but she wants her relationship with him to move ahead—as soon as her divorce from ex-husband Brian Austin Green is finalized. E! got an update from a source about how Fox and Green are doing as they legally close the chapter on their 10-year
Judas and the Black Messiah is a spellbinding true story of betrayal and America’s turbulent racial reckoning during the 1960s. The FBI, under the authoritarian rule of J. Edgar Hoover, launched an illegal clandestine program – COINTELPRO, to infiltrate and subvert political organizations deemed a threat to national security. William O’ Neal was recruited to
The Marvel Cinematic Universe will continue to expand at Disney+. The Walt Disney Company announced Monday that it has entered into a five-year overall exclusive television deal with writer-director-producer Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media, with principals Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ludwig Göransson, Archie Davis, and Peter Nicks. Coogler, who co-wrote and directed Marvel Studios’ Black Panther
By Cristian Cernov and Tatiana Erukhimova With support from the American Physics Society, we started Real Physics Live. Since then, our 14 person team composed of Texas A&M undergrads, grads, and one faculty member has produced over 20 high-quality videos, which you can view at our website: realphysicslive.com Needless to say, Real Physics Live
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 kept a tally on the wall calendar in my bedroom: four bars and a strikethrough for the days I prayed all
Scott Mlyn | CNBC Ulta Beauty unveiled an initiative Tuesday to better reflect the country’s diversity with the products it sells in stores and faces it features in advertising campaigns. The beauty retailer pledged to double the Black-owned brands in its assortment by the end of 2021 and step up employee training to make stores
Bin Li, CEO of Chinese electric vehicle start-up NIO Inc., celebrates after ringing a bell as NIO stock begins trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the NYSE in New York, September 12, 2018. Brendan McDermid | Reuters BEIJING — Chinese electric car start-up
Silento allegedly gunned down his cousin, and now he’s facing a murder charge for it. The “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” rapper was arrested Monday for allegedly murdering Frederick Rooks after an investigation into the man’s death … according to the DeKalb County Police Department. Cops say they found Rooks shot to death inside a home
Warner Bros. just announced that Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead will debut on May 14 this year. Remember, that means both in theaters and on HBO Max on opening weekend. The female-driven neo-Western which is set against a wildfire in the Montana wilderness stars Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Jon Bernthal, Tyler Perry, Aidan Gillen, Medina
WASHINGTON — An entrepreneur has purchased a SpaceX Crew Dragon mission slated for launch late this year that will include three other people as part of a project that is a mix of charity and commerce. SpaceX announced Feb. 1 that Jared Isaacman, the founder and chief executive of online payment processing company Shift4 Payments,
Samsung is soon going to launch its Health Monitor app in 31 new countries for people to take electrocardiogram (EKG) and blood pressure readings. Users of the same will be able to use the app with a Galaxy Watch 3 or Galaxy Active 2 smartwatch. According to a report by The Verge, Samsung says the
An employee holds a jar of marijuana on sale after it became legal in the state to sell recreational marijuana to customers over 21 years old in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Illinois begins the legal sale of marijuana on Jan 1, 2020. Matthew Hatcher | Reuters Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and two other Democratic senators
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana suggested that the Covid relief figure should not be “foreordained” and should be based on data, moments after his meeting with President Joe Biden. “If we’re driven by data, we’ll come to the right figure,” said Cassidy to CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” during a Monday evening interview.
We can’t predict what 2021 will bring, but that hasn’t stopped us from searching for answers in the stars. The practice of self-reflection and spirituality hits different these days as we approach a year in quarantine. Some dove into birth charts seeking solace while others discovered numerology or rabidly DM’d astro memes to their friends