A sign warns consumers on the avaliability of gasoline at a RaceTrac gas station on May 11, 2021, in Smyrna, Georgia. Elijah Nouvelage | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON – U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday they were able to retrieve some of the money paid to a criminal cybergroup on the heels of a crippling
A global shortage of semiconductors will continue to strain markets for months to come, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Monday. “For the next year or so, this will be a daily challenge,” Raimondo said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” The scarcity of chips, which are required for an ever-growing variety of products, has already taken a
Imax announced Monday that Marvel Studios’ Black Widow — set for released by Disney July 9, will debut with 22 minutes of select scenes in expanded aspect ratio exclusively in Imax. The Scarlett Johansson-starrer is the first new movie in “Phase Four” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first new Marvel Studios theatrical release
Apple has officially unveiled iOS 15, and like many recent rumours and leaks suggested, several far-reaching improvements have come to iMessage and FaceTime. There’s also new system-wide emphasis on sharing and communication, as well as even more privacy-related features, and new ways to leverage on-device intelligence. iOS 15 will roll out to iPhone 6s and later
Play video content TMZ.com Kid Rock dropped a homophobic slur like it was nothing while rocking the mic at a bar in Tennessee, and ranting about people recording him with their phones. Seems the singer wasn’t feeling the fact audience members had whipped out their iPhone cameras Saturday night when he took the stage at
Paramount+ is getting bigger. The ViacomCBS-owned streaming announced it will significantly expand its content offering this summer, starting with the exclusive premiere of the sci-fi action film “Infinite” and introduction of more than 1,000 premium movies this week. From generation-defining films and award-winning classics to thrilling action-adventure movies and family-friendly hits, the world-class movie library
After renting a room in an Indian family’s house in England, the Croatian tenant becomes privy to one member’s dreams of return. “This is it!” Parvati, a young Indian woman, shows me a tiny room with scarcely space for a bed, a chest-of-drawers, and a chair. The place is so small we can barely both
In this article CMCSA Simone Biles competes on the uneven bars prior to the Senior Women’s competition of the U.S. Gymnastics Championships at Dickies Arena on June 06, 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas. Jamie Squire | Getty Images NBCUniversal, the parent company of CNBC, announced Monday it will show more than 7,000 hours of content
Another member of One Direction met his match, although it didn’t last. In August 2020, A rep for Liam Payne, 27, confirmed that he got engaged to his model girlfriend of two years Maya Henry, 21. Us Weekly got the official confirmation after Henry was spotted out with a diamond ring on that finger in
Alternative interpretation: artistic interpretation of a black-hole merger. (Courtesy: LIGO/T Pyle) A compelling alternative explanation for what astrophysicists believe is the largest black hole merger measured to date has been put forth by two astronomers in Germany. Alexander Nitz and Collin Capano at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics argue that the gravitational wave
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LandSat 7 Satellite still delivering after 20 years; RI&S has eyes on what’s next The land-observing satellite was supposed to work for five years. Now, more than 20 years later, Landsat 7 is still going strong. In April 2021, the satellite marked its 22nd year of serving as a set of eyes on our home
Two years after the conviction and life sentence of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the cartel he once headed appears stronger than ever. A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration threat assessment released in March said the Sinaloa cartel remains the most extensive such organization in Mexico and “maintains the widest national influence” in the
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stock futures are flat as the S&P 500 attempts to make a run at a record high this week amid optimism about the economy’s ongoing reopening this summer. S&P 500 futures added less than 0.1%. Dow Jones Industrial average futures gained 23 points,
In this article NWSA Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images France’s competition watchdog has fined Google 220 million euros ($268 million) for abusing its market power in the
With more theaters reopening and film-goers slowly returning, life is being resuscitated into the specialty box office. This week we see a faith-based movie premiere banking serious dinero. Witnesses is a film recounting the early days of the Church of Latter-Day Saints and the translation of the Book of Mormon. The movie is directed and
Poco M3 Pro 5G could cost under Rs. 18,000, as per a recent leak. The phone is scheduled to launch in India on June 8, following its debut in the European market last month. It is a rebranded Redmi Note 10 5G and speculations suggest there will be a 6GB + 128GB storage variant along
News Watch the Tragically Hip and Feist Perform at 2021 Juno Awards They performed “It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken” and received the 2021 Humanitarian Award By Madison Bloom June 6, 2021 Facebook Twitter Feist performs with the Tragically Hip at Juno Awards 2021 (still) Facebook Twitter The Tragically Hip were joined by