HGTV stars compete to create a replica of a Barbie Dreamhouse. Grantchester’s vicar faces the consequences of a terrible motorcycle accident. The CW brings the global Biblical hit The Chosen to network TV. Less holy are HBO’s Righteous Gemstones, coping with the sins of infidelity, jealousy and avarice. Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Barbie Dreamhouse ChallengeSUNDAY: With the much-anticipated Barbie movie about to open, HGTV gets dolled up with a fanciful renovation competition reminiscent of the recent Brady Bunch home makeover. Teams of HGTV stars, and one Food Network personality, tackle challenges room by room, each representing a decade of the…
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Svalbard. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Tourists acting as citizen scientists have helped a research team detect microplastics on remote Arctic beaches. The global scale of plastic production means that these tiny fragments of plastic are now ubiquitous, and scientists fear that ocean currents will cause plastic to accumulate in the Arctic, damaging ecosystems. But our knowledge of the scale and type of plastic pollution in the Arctic is incomplete. Researchers recruited holidaymakers to carry out sample collection during cruises, hoping to fill in some of the gaps in their knowledge. “Plastic pollution is now ubiquitous. It is found on land…
Photography courtesy of Zhong Lin Plus, Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk is announced as Back to Earth Skin’s new brand ambassador. By Lauren Knowles Date June 16, 2023 Rhode expands its product portfolio with a dewy facial essence Photography courtesy of Zhong Lin To ring in its one-year brand anniversary, Rhode is blessing us with the launch of a glossy new skincare innovation. Introducing Glazing Milk, the latest addition to the Rhode lineup and an “essential prep step” in achieving that widely sought after, hydrated, Hailey Bieber glow. Powered by a barrier-boosting trio of nourishing ceramides (the fatty acids found naturally…
Samsung and Google have announced that they will offer support for each other’s smart home ecosystems, the South Korean company announced on Thursday. Over the years, even though smart devices have gained traction, there exist compatibility issues between brands that ultimately cause headaches for users. The Matter protocol is aimed at making it easier to control a smart home that has a mix of devices from different makers, and a major step forward towards that goal has now been announced.In order to resolve compatibility problems, Samsung and Google have agreed to build a bridge between SmartThings and Google Home devices,…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Mushroom Group spawns a new live entertainment company, MG Live. Unveiled Thursday, July 27, the independent music powerhouse consolidates a string of its events and touring businesses under the umbrella of MG Live, including Illusive Presents, Roundhouse Entertainment, Good Life, I OH YOU Touring, and Arena Touring. The fresh collective will focus on developing branded events and experiences alongside its domestic and international headline touring, and will continue to deliver tours in conjunction with sister company Frontier Touring, the powerhouse concerts specialist. “Throughout the last eighteen months we have worked to consolidate a number of Mushroom’s live…
The Willy Wonka of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (to say nothing about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) is a man of mystery. He lives alone in his factory with his Oompa Loompas. He never leaves, and hasn’t been seen in years until Charlie and the rest of the kids find their Golden Tickets for their special factory tour. Especially in the first Willy Wonka film, where Wonka was played by Gene Wilder, we learn very little about Wonka’s early life and career. The remake starring Johnny Depp did give the character a bit of a tragic backstory (his father was a dentist!!) but only in…
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Things keep improving, especially for the stars of Queer Eye. On July 15, 2003 — 20 years ago now — the Queer Eye franchise debuted with Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, a Bravo makeover show with a totally different Fab Five than the gang you see in the Netflix reboot. Those five original stars were “Food and Wine Connoisseur” Ted Allen, “Grooming Guru” Kyan Douglas, “Design Doctor” Thom Filicia, “Fashion Savant” Carson Kressley, and “Culture Vulture” Jai Rodriguez. That Bravo show — which eventually morphed into Queer Eye as the show expanded its scope beyond cis-het male subjects —…
The Eagle quantum processorIBM IBM’s Eagle quantum computer completed a calculation that stumped the conventional supercomputer it was pitted against. Quantum computers have sparked excitement for a few decades, but researchers haven’t built one that universally outperforms all conventional computers. This is partly because all existing quantum computers are “noisy” – their results are corrupted by errors, in the same way that sound can get lost in a crackly recording. Now, Abhinav Kandala at IBM and his colleagues have shown that even a noisy quantum computer can be more accurate in its calculations than a conventional machine.Advertisement They compared the…
As October steps into its second weekend, the crypto market showed signs of volatility that remained prevalent throughout the week. Bitcoin opened with a minor gain of 1.88 percent on Friday, October 14. As per the crypto price tracker by Gadgets 360, BTC stuck to its months-old price point of $19,437 (roughly Rs. 15.90 lakh), failing to crawl over the $20,000 mark (roughly Rs. 16.46 lakh). On Binance and Coinbase, BTC garnered similar miniscule gains to maintain its value around $19,818 (roughly Rs. 16.30 lakh).Ether, in the backdrop of daily market fluctuations, opened with losses on Friday. As per Gadgets…
Sofia Richie Grainge quickly turned the quiet-luxury fashion trend into a worldwide phenomenon. Now, the model and fashion designer is taking the trend to the next level with a new clothing line inspired by her personal aesthetic. “Today we are doing my favorite thing to do every day, which is meet with my team to work on this project that we’ve been working on for months,” she said in a Vogue video published on July 25. “I’m really proud of where I am now because I’m expressing myself through my clothing.”In the video, Richie Grainge sat down with designer Cassandra…
A year after rebranding itself from Facebook into Meta, the social network titan is striving to make the metaverse a routine part of daily life, offering users new features and promoting new virtual reality gear.But analysts say the company has toned down the hype a bit as it struggles to reach its goal of creating an interactive virtual world that it sees as the next phase of online activity.The biggest announcement from this week’s Meta Connect event — the company’s giant’s annual conference focused on virtual reality — was the launch of the much anticipated Meta Quest Pro VR headset,…
Director Christopher Nolan has said he will not work on another movie until the end of the actor’s strike. Nolan’s latest movie is Oppenheimer, a historical thriller starring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The SAG-AFTRA strike began on July 14, 2023, with the actors in the film walking out of the London premiere. “I have to to acknowledge the work of our incredible cast, led by Cillian Murphy,” Nolan said at the premiere (via Deadline). “The list is enormous — Robert Downey Jr, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek…
SPELLLING, the art-pop project of Bay Area musician Chrystia Cabral, has a new album on the way called SPELLLING & The Mystery School that’ll be out on August 25th via Sacred Bones. To celebrate the news, Cabral has shared the record’s first two singles, “Cherry” b/w “Under the Sun.” The Mystery School takes a bit of a non-traditional approach. Rather than a string of brand-new songs, these tracks feature re-imaginations of songs already in SPELLLING’s discography. Now, recorded with her full touring band, these new versions take into consideration audience feedback, with Cabral now “understanding what excites them and/or what makes…
Move over, Ryan Reynolds; there’s a new Green Lantern in Sector 2814.When Superman: Legacy premieres in theaters in a few years, kicking off James Gunn’s new DC Universe, the Man of Steel won’t be the only superhero on hand. Gunn himself confirmed today that at least three other famous DC superheroes will appear in the movie. Isabela Merced will play Hawgirl, Edi Gathegi is Mr. Terrific, and none other than frequent James Gunn collaborator Nathan Fillion will portray the DCU’s first Green Lantern.READ MORE: The Worst Superhero Movie Costumes of All TimeFillion’s character, Guy Gardner, is a different Green Lantern than the…
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong Chloe Gong’s Immortal Longings (Saga Press) is a captivating blend of stunning world building, fast-paced action and fascinating characters. In her adult epic fantasy debut, inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Gong has crafted a tale that balances love and brutality on either end of a precarious, double-edged sword. Princess Calla Tuoleimi spends her years in hiding following the bloody massacre of her parents, a fate meted out by her own hand. She yearns to complete her plan to bring down the monarchy by killing the remaining king in the kingdom of Talin — her…
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launched a new program earlier this month called the Banned Book Club. The program gives users access to books that have been banned in their local libraries by using “GPS-based geo-targeting.” To use the service, readers can go to TheBannedBookClub.info and share their location to view the banned books in their area. The books can then be downloaded for free with the Palace e-reader app. Executive director of the DPLA John S. Bracken said, “At DPLA, our mission is to ensure access to knowledge for all and we believe in the power of technology…
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2, Episodes 1-3.] The Summer I Turned Pretty is back, which means fans are eager to break down more than just the love triangle at the center of it all, such as the catchy soundtrack accompanying the show including which Taylor Swift songs made the cut. As viewers who tuned in last season will recall, the singer’s music played a prominent role in various scenes, helping to highlight Belly (Lola Tung), Conrad (Christopher Briney), and Jeremiah’s (Gavin Casalegno) story. Among the tunes were “The Way I Loved…
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2, Episodes 1-3.] The Summer I Turned Pretty is back, which means fans are eager to break down more than just the love triangle at the center of it all, such as the catchy soundtrack accompanying the show including which Taylor Swift songs made the cut. As viewers who tuned in last season will recall, the singer’s music played a prominent role in various scenes, helping to highlight Belly (Lola Tung), Conrad (Christopher Briney), and Jeremiah’s (Gavin Casalegno) story. Among the tunes were “The Way I Loved…
The edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO A REVOLUTION in our understanding of the universe is coming. Like so many previous upheavals, it is currently unclear exactly what the trigger might be. But what is clear, almost a year on from the release of its first images, is that the James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of far distant galaxies are the most likely source of transformational insights. Yes, this is precisely what JWST was designed for. But it is worth remembering that before its … Read The Full…
WANDERING around an achingly cool San Francisco coffee shop a few years ago, I was fascinated to see huge, open-topped barrels filled with used coffee grounds and a sign saying they were free for customers to scoop into recycled bags and take home to perk up their plants. I realised that we had reached peak hipster. Indeed, the claim that coffee waste dramatically boosts plant growth has been a staple of organic gardening books since at least the 1970s, and seems to be seeing a modern renaissance. Proponents everywhere wax lyrical about how the spent grounds are not only rich…
On Friday, Beyoncé shared pics of herself with a very grown up looking Blue Ivy Carter on Instagram. Both mom and daughter were in their evening looks for the night out at Brooklyn Central Library, where Jay-Z was celebrating his Book of HOV exhibition.For the night, the Renaissance star was wearing a body-hugging bright orange outfit by designer LaQuan Smith. The two-piece was composed of a lace button up shirt over a pencil skirt covered in matching lace fabric. Her hair was up in a tall ponytail that fell in honey waves behind her, and she was carrying a small…
The war, unsurprisingly, has made conservation a lot harder. Oleg Dyakov, a rewilding officer from Rewilding Ukraine’s head office in Odesa and one of the organization’s cofounders, recounts the hazards his teams have faced with a casual frustration. Marine mines drifting in from the Black Sea stalled the release of fallow deer, and monitoring activities of Dalmatian Pelicans were limited to binoculars and telescopes because parts of the Delta were restricted by the Ukrainian government. (In peacetime, they’d have been able to carry out more accurate counts through the assistance of drones.)The Askania Nova reserve—Ukraine’s oldest and largest biosphere, located…
Taylor Swift surprised fans at her Eras Tour concert in Kansas City, Mo., on Friday (July 7) by premiering the music video for her song “I Can See You.” The action-packed visual for the Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) track finds Swift and actors Taylor Lautner, Joey King and Presley Cash pulling off a heist of her third album. “I Can See You” appears as one of the newly released re-recorded album’s “From the Vault” songs. During Friday’s show at Geha Field at Arrowhead Stadium, Swift invited the three actors onstage to help introduce the video. Lautner delighted the sold-out audience…
It’s been over 25 years since Tom Cruise first played secret agent Ethan Hunt in 1996’s Mission: Impossible. For a film based on a long-dead television show, the M:I franchise has shown remarkable staying power — and so has Cruise. To put it into perspective, consider this: In the 25 years after the first James Bond movie, Dr. No, four different men played James Bond. By the time a quarter century had passed, the first Bond, Sean Connery, had long since retired as the character; that was around the time he played Indiana Jones’ bumbling father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. 25 years later, Tom Cruise is still playing…
House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig What’s it About? A classic Gothic thriller-fantasy from New York Times bestselling author, the sequel to “House of Salt and Sorrows” is about doomed love, menacing ambition, and the ghosts that haunt us forever. Verity can see ghosts. She just doesn’t realize it yet. When she receives a request to paint a portrait of the Duchess of Bloem’s son, the decades-old secret is revealed to her. She must make a choice to stay where she is safe and observed, or flee and chase her passions — and her heart. The sequel…
And Just Like That… another Sex and the City love interest is back in play. John Corbett, who played Aidan Shaw on HBO’s SATC and its second film adaptation, is making a much-anticipated return to the franchise in Max’s AJLT, and a new promo hypes up his debut on the spinoff. “This feels great,” Aidan tells Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) as he stands in front of her apartment building in Max’s promo. “Back where we started.” Aidan kisses Carrie on that stoop, and soon, the two are reconnecting, ahem, more intimately. “Can we talk about Aidan?” Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) asks…
An artist’s interpretation of what a brown dwarf star may look like from an exoplanet that orbits one. (Image credit: GETTY/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)Researchers have detected surprising radio signals coming from a tiny, “ultracool” star that should not be able to give off the radiation bursts. The peculiar celestial object, which blurs the line between a planet and a star, could help scientists learn more about how small stars evolve.The object, named T8 Dwarf WISE J062309.94−045624.6 (W0623), is a so-called brown dwarf. This kind of “protostar” has a composition similar to gas giants like Jupiter, but it can fuse hydrogen…
And while I hate for my foundation (when I opt for it) to be heavy-duty or full-coverage, I firmly believe that all good concealers should be exactly that. I want my concealer to hide whatever I want it to hide, but I also like it to have a skin-like finish, avoid creasing and be easy to apply. That’s not so much to ask, is it?Turns out it really is. In fact, I’ve tried every concealer that has ever come my way as a beauty editor (of which there have been hundreds), and I can safely say there are only 11 full-coverage concealer formulas that…
The Adventures of Strawberryhead and Gingerbread by KF Wheatie and KM Wheatie The book, written by two children, is a story about a brother and sister, Strawberryhead and Gingerbread, along with their black lab Solomon, who take a fun-filled adventure to the lake, where they go fishing, swim, make friends, and show off their special powers. But the book is more than just an adventure tale. It is designed to teach children about friendship and inclusivity, and that all challenges children face are stepping stones to joy and harmony. Differences in children are to be celebrated – an important lesson…