NASA has a leader again. On Wednesday, the US Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman as the agency's administrator, with a 67-30 vote. The billionaire entrepreneur (and Elon Musk ally) will have his hands full navigating political waters while managing a severely downsized workforce.You might recall that this wasn't Isaacman's first shot at the job. He was nominated to the post earlier...
This time of year makes me miss being a kid and unwrapping a cool new RPG I could then spend the winter quietly toiling through. Not an internet guide in sight. Just a fan living in the moment. So I’m always on the lookout to see what games are getting discounted during the holiday sell-off in case there are one...
My kids are old enough that they can make their own breakfast now, but we still enjoy eating together as a family. Learning how to cook is a great skill for kids to learn that benefits the whole family! These simple Greek yogurt bagels are easy enough that even kids can make them, and they’re perfect for a quick breakfast. ...
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual reconstruction of the face of early Homo erectus.The 1.5 to 1.6 million-year-old fossil, called DAN5, was found at the site of Gona, in the Afar region of Ethiopia.Map...
YouTube is pulling its data from Billboard for use in the publisher’s industry-leading U.S. music charts. The decision is in response to a recent change Billboard made to its ranking formula, which continues to add more weight to paid, on-demand streaming compared with ad-supported, free streaming. Billboard justified its decision to adjust its age-old formula by saying that the change...
Medline’s stock soared more than 40% above its IPO price on Wednesday, its first day of trading. Source link...
One way to drive hype about a new product is to supply way less of it than is demanded, and then wait for all the "sold out" headlines to appear. This seems to be exactly what Samsung is doing in Korea with the Galaxy Z TriFold, which already sold out once, in mere minutes, when it first went on sale...
Despite its entirely digital construction and sometimes uncanny mix of 24 and 48FPS 3D, Avatar: Fire and Ash is full of messy human impulse which place it well above its big budget Hollywood contemporaries. As fellow Little White Lies contributor Mark Asch said, it’s funny to think of James Cameron as a traditionalist when his work has long-been technology-forward (“Recent years...
“It was the summer of 1959, a long time ago. But only if you measure it in terms of years.” Richard Dreyfuss is desolate-looking in a truck parked up somewhere pastoral and private. On the seat beside him is a newspaper with a violent front page headline. Stand By Me is a film steeped in nostalgia for a time full of pleasures and sorrows. Rob Reiner’s visual...
MoEngage, a customer engagement platform used by consumer brands across 75 countries, has raised $180 million in a Series F follow-on round just over a month after securing $100 million, with a majority of the latest funding providing liquidity to investors and employees through secondary transactions. In the latest raise, about $123 million was secondary, including a $15 million employee...
