After several grueling hours of protesting against systemic injustice (no one can prepare you for long hours on your feet, long hours screaming for recognition of your humanity), we stood with our signs tucked safely under our arms as the organizer introduced some parting words. The speaker was an older Black man, the weariness of
A route to topological superconductivity? Courtesy: Stephan Kim, Princeton University Researchers at Princeton University in the US have become the first to observe a robust supercurrent at the edge of a superconductor that is very different to the supercurrent in the material’s bulk. This “topological superconductivity” could come in useful for a host of new
by Trevor Kimball, June 10, 2020 (Hulu) It looks like Harlots is history. Hulu has cancelled the period drama series so, there won’t be a fourth season, reports THR. Inspired by the lives of real women, Harlots stars Samantha Morton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Lesley Manville, Eloise Smyth, and Liv Tyler. Alfie Allen joined season three
Marcus Theaters, the fourth largest circiut in the U.S., Thursday announced plans to reopen six theaters on June 19 with enhanced protocols in accordance with current local health and safety guidelines that will be used help fine-tune future phases of theatre reopenings in weeks ahead, in time for summer blockbusters based on when studios release
Demonstrators cross the Brooklyn Bridge on June 4, 2020. Justin Heiman | Getty Images Corporate America has joined protesters in condemning the death of George Floyd at the hands of police and calling for action to confront racial injustices and racial inequalities in the United States. “There are in fact barriers that are faced by
A bus driver in Detroit, March 24, 2020. Seth Herald | AFP | Getty Images Black Americans are disproportionately getting sick and dying from the coronavirus. It’s a plague that has laid bare, not just vulnerabilities in the U.S. hospital system, but gaping disparities in access to quality health care across minority communities. Black people
WASHINGTON — A launch vehicle processing “hiccup” has pushed back next month’s launch of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission by three days. NASA Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk revealed the delay in a presentation to a joint meeting of the National Academies’ Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Space Studies Board (SSB) June 9. “We had
After teasing the series’ arrival for some months, Quibi is finally ready to launch its take on 60 Minutes for the social media generation. What that mainly means is content tailored to the shortened attention spans of viewers on top which the service has hung all of its hopes, dreams and $1.8 billion. The new
NYPD Police officers listen as Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York President Pat Lynch and representatives from other NYPD and law enforcement unions holds a news conference at the Icahn Stadium parking lot on June 9, 2020 to address the “current anti-law enforcement environment.” in New York. Timothy A. Clary | AFP
Ariana Grande is movin’ on up … quite literally cause her new pad is up in a very coveted area of the Hollywood Hills. The singer dropped a cool $13.7 million for this mansion in the famous “Bird Streets” neighborhood … where just about every resident is a huge celebrity. The home has 4 bedrooms
We are getting closer, it seems, to movie theaters attempting to reopen again. It’s still hard to know what that might look like, and quite a few people may not be ready to head back out to a theater again just yet. So, for the time being, we are still left with what is available
What happened to Bellamy and the rest of Clarke’s people? The 100 Season 7 Episode 4 dropped a revelation from the people inside the Anomaly that threatened to change the fate of the world. Meanwhile, Hope, Gabriel, and Echo worked together to try to find out what happened to Diyoza and Bellamy. What did they learn
Zaina Arafat’s debut novel, You Exist Too Much, follows a Palestinian American teenager as she becomes an adult, navigating her queerness and love addiction. It follows her romantic relationship as well as her recklessness on the side, and where that may have come from. Finally, she admits herself to a treatment center that will make
Chinese tourists with facial masks stand in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 3, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images U.S. pressure on Chinese stocks looks set to accelerate the growth of capital markets in Hong Kong and mainland China, as investors
by Trevor Kimball, June 11, 2020 (A&E) It’s not often that a channel will cancel its highest-rated series. Less than a month ago, A&E was touting the Live PD TV show’s great ratings. Today, the cable channel cancelled the series — at least for now. Debuting in October 2016, Live PD provides a unique look
EXCLUSIVE: Even if New York City theaters aren’t opening, and even if Warner Bros. decides to move Tenet to August, Solstice Studios’ Russell Crowe road rage movie Unhinged will still open on July 1. While Tenet is being pinned as the long-awaited launch of the summer season after exhibition’s great shutdown since mid-March, Unhinged is the warm-up act to get turnstiles primed
Longtime hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones on Wednesday critiqued the long-held belief that companies should exist for the sole purpose of generating profits. Jones, whose remarks came during a JUST Capital event with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, said it’s that philosophy that allows corporate boards to neglect issues of equity in the workplace and ultimately
SAN FRANCISCO – German launch services provider Exolaunch announced an agreement to launch two Loft Orbital microsatellites on SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare missions. Under the contract, Exolaunch will handle mission management, deployment and integration services for Loft Orbital, a San Francisco startup planning to establish a constellation of standard microsatellites to fly payloads, sensors and