Less than two months after Coinbase’s stock market debut, rival crypto exchange Kraken is bringing its mobile app to the U.S. as retail investors flock to digital currencies. Starting Wednesday, the new Kraken App will allow many users across the U.S. to securely buy and sell more than 50 crypto tokens from their mobile phones.
Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you’re here), love books. Perhaps one of their favorite
Spinning around: physicists have created a gyroscope using nuclear spins in diamond. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Inna Bigun) Researchers in Russia have built a highly accurate, atomic-scale gyroscope that detects rotation through changes in the coupled spins of electrons and nitrogen nuclei. Led by Alexey Akimov at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, the team created its device
My Father’s Faith Will Either Save You or Break You Monica West 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. Chapter One of Revival Season by Monica West
I was lucky to meet Romalyn Ante when I was invited to read at a virtual event organized by R. A. Villanueva and hosted by Books Are Magic in August 2020. Ante was the guest of honor at the event, and her debut poetry collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness, struck me as incredibly powerful and timely. Working
TAMPA, Fla. — Satellite operator Viasat is stepping up efforts to stop Starlink’s growing constellation, taking aim at the nearly $900 million of rural broadband subsidies that SpaceX won in December. The operator is asking the Federal Communications Commission to review decisions made around the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), claiming differential treatment and a
Managing editor for Frontier Myanmar Danny Fenster is pictured in this handout picture taken in Yangon, Myanmar November 2020. Reuters The military regime that recently seized power in Myanmar has stonewalled virtually all efforts to reach Danny Fenster, a U.S. journalist who has been detained there without explanation for more than a week. His family
Bonds yields were nearly flat in premarket trading on Wednesday, as investors digested last week’s inflation data and look ahead to Friday’s jobs report. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note ticked slightly lower to 1.606% in premarket trading, largely flat on Tuesday’s close, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was also
Disney+’s live-action 101 Dalmatians spinoff Cruella drew 686K U.S. households over the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend according to today’s figures from Samba TV. It’s a number that’s 39% less than the 4-day Labor Day traffic for another Disney+ Premier title, Mulan, which pulled in 1.12 million U.S. households over Sept. 4-7, 2020. Both titles were available
Samsung Galaxy A22 5G and Samsung Galaxy A22 4G models are reported to be in the works. The phones are anticipated to launch soon globally and now the company’s Russia website has made live the support page of Samsung Galaxy A22 4G model. This hints at an imminent launch in the Russian market. Samsung Galaxy
Crowds of people are seen shopping during a weekly market at Kandivali. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images India is expected to see double-digit expansion in the three months ending in June — but economists warn that the data won’t be painting the full picture of the country’s growth trajectory. South Asia’s largest economy
News Perfume Genius Announces 2021 Tour The run of September dates includes shows with Tame Impala and Death Cab for Cutie By Noah Yoo June 1, 2021 Facebook Twitter Perfume Genius, photo by Camille Vivier Facebook Twitter Perfume Genius is headed back out on the road. Mike Hadreas will perform a show at Henry Miller
The time has finally come for the Waterfords to face the music. This should be a joyous moment on The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4 Episode 8, as we and June delight in the Waterfords getting their just desserts. Unfortunately, the Waterfords’ day in court wasn’t everything June, or we hoped for. To start with, it was
Rihanna’s lingerie line Savage X Fenty is looking to propel its success beyond the wear-your-underwear-around-the-house WFH era with a colorful new capsule collection worth paying attention to: Savage X Pride. A first for the brand, the Pride collection features 60 new pieces, each catering to and in celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community in honor of
Investors may get relief from volatility this month. According to CFRA Research’s Sam Stovall, Wall Street just entered a historically calm month. “June really is sort of a lackluster month in terms of average returns [and] in terms of frequency of advance,” the firm’s chief investment strategist told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday. But Stovall is
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 didn’t grow up hearing the word “feminism,” but my brain didn’t need to know the word to understand the freedom that
TAMPA, Fla. — Europe has tasked an Airbus-led group to devise its own quantum communications network as startup Arqit raises $400 million for a space-based system. Airbus said May 31 the European Commission awarded the group a contract to study a quantum technology-powered network, called EuroQCI, to secure critical infrastructure across Europe. The 15-month agreement
In this article JNJ In this photo illustration, a container of Johnson’s baby powder made by Johnson and Johnson sits on a table on July 13, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Johnson & Johnson seeking to undo a $2.1 billion award