Edward Berthelot Taking care of your hair can be frustrating, especially when you’ve been blessed with thicker, coiler strands than most. It’s easy to hide your mane under a hat or tied it up in a ponytail or bun, but no matter what style you choose, you need an arsenal of products to maintain a healthy head of curls. Problem is, not every hair product you see can give your curly strands the proper care it deserves. Just as there are thickening products for fine hair or hydrating shampoos for dry hair, there are a slew of products that can…
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Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro were launched by Google alongside Pixel Watch earlier this month. The flagship smartphone series appears to have turned a new leaf in the Pixel’s history. During Google’s Q3 2022 earnings call, the company revealed that it had its “highest selling week ever” for the Pixel lineup till date. Google’s Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat credited the Pixel 6a as being primarily responsible for the solid growth in hardware revenues. The Pixel 6a powered by the company’s in-house Tensor SoC was launched in July. Meanwhile, Google’s Q3 revenue rose 6 percent year-on-year to $69.1 billion…
The Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Motley Crue are just three of the rock and metal bands among Billboard’s year-end ranking of the overall top-grossing tours of 2022.In the second full year since the COVID-19 pandemic effectively shuttered all touring in 2020, some big-time rock artists returned in an even bigger way.Guns N’ Roses, My Chemical Romance, Iron Maiden and Trans-Siberian Orchestra are just a few of the other rock artists on the list.Overall, the top 5 highest grossing tours for the year were the Latin rapper Bad Bunny ($373.5 million in gross receipts), the rock king Elton John ($334.5 million), the pop stars Ed Sheeran ($246.3…
Disney+ doesn’t have a ton of new shows and movies in January, but they’re planning a pretty substantial rest of the year. They just unveiled a teaser for their 2023 highlights today, and it includes new footage of a whole bunch of highly-anticipated series and films.The highlights of the highlights include The Mandalorian Season 3, Ahsoka Season 1 starring Rosario Dawson as the Jedi hero who was previously featured in The Mandalorian Season 2, the debut of Pixar’s animated series Win or Lose, Marvel’s Secret Invasion starring Samuel L. Jackson and Emilia Clarke, and the live-action Peter Pan & Wendy from David Lowery, the director who previously reimagined the Disney animated…
Battlegrounds: Book 1 of 4 of the Matari Series by Stephen A. Carter What’s it About? Travel across turbulent seas, through twisting, hidden passageways, and over the bloody historic battlefield of the siege of Fort Sumter in the first installment of a series that will change the way readers think of the months leading up to the US Civil War. Author Stephen A. Carter presents a gripping story of historical fiction that captures the complexity of the years preceding the US Civil War. He illustrates the greed, bloodlust and political manipulations of both the North and South that pushed America…
Credit: National Institute of Standards and Technology This standard reference material from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will help calibrate procedures for calcium determinations used in clinical analysis and for routine critical evaluation of the daily working standards applied in these procedures. Additionally, the certified values can be used to validate analytical methods for determining calcium and carbonate. NIST has released a mass fraction reference material for calibrating the instruments used by a wide variety of manufacturers. Mass fraction of a substance is the ratio of mass of the substance to the total mass. Calcium carbonate is…
You may recognize Timothée Chalamet from some of the biggest movies in recent years including Dune, Little Women, Bones and All, Call Me By Your Name, and more, but he’s desperate for Apple to give him a call in a new ad campaign for Apple TV+. In the funny teaser, Chalamet sits down for a viewing of Best Picture Oscar-winner Coda and tells his pal, “I was in two Best Picture nominees last year.” But despite the clout of his past projects, there’s something missing for the A-lister who keeps noticing other Apple TV+ titles hitting it big. (Credit: Apple…
Photography by Getty Images Get inspiration from Zoë Kravitz’s go-to makeup artist, the master behind Lady Gaga’s graphic eyeliner, and more. By Lauren Knowles Date December 16, 2022 Inspiration can strike anywhere, but if you’re looking for makeup ideas, the Instagram feeds of celeb makeup artists is where the best red carpet-worthy glam thrives. We’ve watched A-listers like Rihanna and Hailey Bieber pose for the cameras all year, admiring their stunning beauty looks while perhaps not even knowing who’s putting their makeup artistry skills to work behind the scenes. Well, credit must be given where credit is due, so we’ve…
Summertime revenue growth at Google’s corporate parent slipped to its slowest pace since the pandemic jarred the economy more than two years ago, with advertisers clamping down on spending and bracing for a potential recession.Alphabet, which owns an array of smaller technology companies in addition to Google, on Tuesday posted revenue of $69.1 billion (roughly Rs. 5.6 lakh crore) for the July-September quarter, a 6 percent increase from the same time last year.It marked the first time Alphabet’s year-over-year quarterly revenue has risen by less than 10 percent since the April-June period of 2020. At that time, the advertisers that generate most of…
[] Skip to main content In August, Ballerini announced her split from husband and fellow country artist Morgan Evans. Is Kelsea Ballerini jumping in ‘Heartfirst’ with someone new? The singer-songwriter was spotted hanging out with Outer Banks actor Chase Stokes during the college football national championship game at Inglewood, California’s SoFi Stadium on Monday as the Georgia Bulldogs took on the TCU Horned Frogs. Ballerini and Stokes were included in a group photo from the game that Raising Canes founder Todd Graves shared on social media. The group also included Taylor Rooks, entrepreneur Jonathan Davis, Noah Beck and more. Explore…
According to a recent exclusive report from Empire Magazine, Brendan Cowell’s Mick Scoresby will appear again in Avatar 3, as will Payakan — the Tulkun creature that plays a large part in The Way of Water. In Avatar: The Way of Water, one of the main plot points in the film comes when one of Jake Sully’s sons, Lo’ak, befriends Payakan the Tulkun — the creatures that look similar to whales — and bonds with the creature. Payakan plays such a major role in the film that he even has his own nemesis of sorts — Mick Scoresby, a hunter…
For the first time ever, scientists have used lasers to redirect lightning toward a safe target.The experiment, which took place atop Säntis mountain on the northern edge of the Swiss Alps, is the first real-world demonstration that intense bursts of light can be used to fish for lightning from storms, and redirect it to a safe location. Scientists have previously used lasers to (opens in new tab), but achieving this outside is challenging. After hauling their laser to Säntis’ summit at an altitude of 8,200 feet (2,500 meters), the researchers fixed it to a 407-foot-tall (124 m) transmission tower there and…
19 Jan 2023 6 Must-read Literary Fiction Books We’ve compiled this week’s must-read books for every literary fiction reader. We promise, these stories will have you hooked until the very last page! Happy reading. The Placeholder by Lynda Wolters Release Date: November 1, 2022 “My desire to be someone’s chosen consumes me. Every. Single. Time. It doesn’t matter who I am with, that person becomes my world, and that becomes the new me.” Serenade is looking for love when she falls for her friend with benefits, Zac. When things spiral, Sera learns life’s hardest lesson: The one who loves you…
Two beloved sitcoms of the ’80s and ’90s returned this week: Melissa Rauch‘s Night Court reboot premiered January 17 on NBC with two episodes, and Netflix‘s That ’90s Show brought the That ’70s Show crew back with a full 10-episode season on January 19. Despite their different narrative premises, the reboots have a lot in common. Both combine original cast members with new ones and focus on the children of the flagship shows’ characters. For those who have given the revivals a shot, we want to know which one you think really nailed it. In Night Court, Rauch plays Abby…
Attacks on Ukraine’s power grid took all 15 of the nation’s nuclear reactors offline for the first time ever. Russia also retains control of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest nuclear power station in Europe Technology | Analysis 25 November 2022 By Matthew Sparkes The occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, on 11 SeptemberStringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Ukraine’s nuclear power stations have been caught, both politically and literally, in the crossfire ever since the start of Russia’s invasion. But this week, for the first time in history, all 15 of its nuclear reactors were taken offline by fighting. Zaporizhzhia Nuclear…
Photography courtesy of OVO Plus Reformation’s new Canadian flagship has magic wardrobes. By Annika Lautens Date December 16, 2022 Drake’s brand OVO’s new capsule collection arrived in time for the holidays Photography courtesy of OVO Still trying to decide what to wear to last-minute holiday parties? According to Drake’s brand October’s Very Own (OVO), you should add leather pants, bedazzled denim and velour tracksuits to the rotation. The just-released women’s capsule collection features all of the above, as well as silk PJ sets and cute loungewear. A reason to celebrate, indeed! Reformation’s new Canadian flagship has magic wardrobes Photography by…
Robots already lend a hand around the home, figuratively speaking. Some can brush the char from the barbecue, others can mow your yard, wash your windows, or clean your pool. Amazon’s Astro follows owners from room to room with their favorite music, delivers snacks to the kids down the hall, serves as a home security patrol when you’re away from home, provides peace of mind when you want to check in on a loved one, and much more.But in 2023, my prediction is that robots will evolve to play a more humanlike role. They will develop the ability to converse,…
After a five-day trial, a jury has found in favor of DaBaby, who was facing a $6 million federal lawsuit accusing him of battery, breach of contract, and defamation, according to documents viewed by Pitchfork. In DaBaby’s countersuit, plaintiffs Kenneth Carey and Steve Anyadike were found to be liable for invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of name or likeness.In January 2020, DaBaby was arrested and questioned by police in Miami about an alleged robbery; he was found to have an outstanding warrant in Texas, spent the night at Miami’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, and was released the next…
The lengthy and extremely public legal battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has ended, with Heard announcing on her Instagram account that she had “made a very difficult decision to settle the defamation case brought against me by my ex-husband in Virginia.”Depp originally sued Heard for $50 million, claiming that an op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse” sullied his reputation and cost him millions of dollars. Heard later countersued Depp for $100 million, saying her reputation was ruined when his side described her accusations as a “hoax.”The seven jurors in the case ultimately found defamation…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. January is a great time to read YA books about fresh starts, though I find it hard to believe it is 2023. To be fair, I’m pretty sure that it took me two full years to recover from 2020. Nonetheless, I am ready to acknowledge that we made it through another trip around the sun and that’s worth writing about. However, I am not a resolutions person. It feels like too much pressure to put on myself at the beginning of a new…
Oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, according to a new report by two dozen scientists. Previous heat records were broken in 2021, 2020 and 2019, and all of the top six hottest levels have occurred in the last six years. It’s an ominous sign of the speed at which the world is warming. The world’s oceans are massive heat sinks—they absorb as much as 90 percent of the excess heat in the atmosphere. And because the air is swiftly warming, driven by greenhouse gas emissions, the oceans are soaking up more and…
Fox is putting a lot of faith in Accused, and it’s no wonder after 24, with Howard Gordon at the helm, put them on the map. Accused premieres this Sunday on Fox after football before settling into its regular time slot on Tuesdays at 9/8c. Fox uses football slots to promote shows they’re particularly proud of, and after years of success with Howard Gordon’s 24 franchise, they’ve got a good record with the creator. The first thing you’ll notice about Accused is that it doesn’t look like other Fox programming. The anthology series has very high production values and a…
Heading into 2023, Selena Gomez is reportedly feeling very “optimistic” about a potential blossoming of her love life in the new year. A source told Entertainment Tonight, “Selena is feeling positive and optimistic.”They added, “She is open to dating.”Gomez has talked about being single this year, mostly joking about her relationship status. In May 3, she posted a TikTok where she’s sitting on a couch surrounded by loving couples and says to the camera, “No, I’m fine. I’m totally fine being single.”“It’s a real thing,” the Only Murders in the Building stressed. “It’s fine.”This content is imported from Tiktok. You…
iPhone 15 Pro — the purported successor to the iPhone 14 Pro — will be equipped with 8GB of RAM and a USB Type-C port, according to predictions by a research firm. The company recently launched the iPhone 14 Pro lineup, comprising the iPhone 14 Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which were the only two handsets to feature Apple’s flagship A16 Bionic chip this year. The iPhone 15 Pro models, which are expected to launch next year, are also expected to come with camera improvements.The Cupertino company’s upcoming iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models will…
Iggy Pop had to be persuaded to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 Grammys, telling Classic Rock magazine, “I hate those people.” “Things changed and society met me halfway,” Pop said of his decision to accept. He added that he wasn’t sure why the Recording Academy was trying to contact him and assumed it was for something stupid. “The Grammys kept wanting to talk to me on the phone and I kept telling my manager: ‘I don’t want to talk to them. I hate those people. They want me to be an exhibit in their museum or something.’”…
A lot was made of the very last moment in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where Indy’s long-lost son, Mutt Williams, picks up his father’s hat and nearly tries it on. Just as Mutt is about to place the hat on his head, his dad snatches it and walks away with a wry grin on his face. The implication: While the film had seemingly groomed Shia LaBeouf’s Mutt as a potential inheritor of the Indiana Jones franchise, Harrison Ford had no intention of retiring. (Sure enough, 15 years later we’re going to get a fifth film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of…
Preparation and application of ligand-tethered lipidoid nanoparticles for targeted siRNA delivery to HSCs to treat liver fibrosis. a Formulation of AA-T3A-C12/siHSP47 LNP via microfluidic mixing. The ethanol lipid solution containing anisamide-tethered lipidoid (AA-T3A-C12), phospholipid (DSPC), PEG-lipid (C14-PEG), and cholesterol is rapidly mixed with an acidic aqueous solution containing HSP47 siRNA in a microfluidic device to formulate AA-T3A-C12/siHSP47 LNP. b Scheme of targeted AA-T3A-C12/siHSP47 LNP delivery to activated HSCs to knockdown HSP47 and treat liver fibrosis. HSCs are located in the space of Disse, an area between LSECs and hepatocytes. After rapidly shedding PEG in circulation, the LNP exposes multivalent anisamide…
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes What’s it About? This can’t-put-down thriller follows Maya as she tries to prove once and for all that her best friend was murdered years ago by her then-boyfriend. Reese Witherspoon has announced that her January Book Club pick is debut author Ana Reyes’ The House In The Pines (Dutton). Filled with eerie nostalgia, impossible-to-guess twists, and a fascinating look at how the fantasy of “going home” can quickly fall apart, the book is a fresh, impressive launch for Reyes which is already receiving rave reviews. Bestselling author Riley Sager calls it “a compelling mix…
It was a down night for most shows on the broadcast networks on Monday, thanks to the NFC Wild Card Playoff game. The telecast scored 15.3 million viewers and a 3.2 rating among adults 18-49. Both FOX’s Fantasy Island rotation (1.6 million/0.2 rating) and Alert (1.5 million viewers/0.2 rating) held steady. The latter’s series premiere drew enormous ratings for FOX, with three days of multi-platform and DVR viewing factored in. Over on CBS, The Neighborhood (5.1 million/0.4 rating) and Bob Hearts Abishola (4.6 million/0.3 rating) were both down from their last originals. NCIS (6 million/0.3 rating) and NCIS: Hawai’i (4.2…
Populations of native mussels in the river Thames have dropped massively between 1964 and 2020, possibly because of the effects of pollution and invasive species Environment 28 November 2022 By Matthew Sparkes One of the mussels gathered in the 2020 survey on the river ThamesIsobel Ollard Mussel populations in the river Thames in the UK have dropped by as much as 99 per cent between 1964 and 2020. Why isn’t clear, but the researchers involved suspect it is down to the effects of pollution and invasive species. To shed light on the long-term trend, Isobel Ollard and David Aldridge at…