The Ember Smart Mug 2 is niche, but it has a loyal following. Even though we think there are better mug warmers on the market, Ember is like Apple AirPods or Kleenex. People want what they want. Right now, for Mother’s Day, the Ember Smart Mug 2 is on sale for just under $100, a 30 percent discount and a match of the very best price we’ve tracked. You can save at Amazon, Best Buy, and the manufacturer’s website.This smart mug is probably overkill. It has a smartphone app that notifies you when your coffee reaches the ideal temperature, and…
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Ever wonder what the gender gap is? No, not the pay gap — the reading gap. How does recreational reading differ from men to women? Well, according to Pew Research Center, there’s a clear winner: Specifically, they found that “[w]omen are more likely than men to say they’ve read a book in the past 12 months. This pattern extends to print and e-books.” Okay, but what about the number of books Americans are reading? (Sorry to our international friends, these stats are US-only.) Well, “38% of U.S. adults say they read one to five books in the past year. 13% read…
Building a giant dam between Russia and Alaska might save a key Atlantic current that is crucial to regulating the climate in northern Europe. However, that massive undertaking presents other risks, researchers explain in a new study.By stretching across the Bering Strait and disconnecting the Pacific Ocean from the Arctic Ocean, this huge geoengineering scheme could buy more time for the threatened conveyor belt of currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), according to the study. However, the study authors and other researchers caution that the effect is variable, the results are preliminary, and further modeling studies are…
NBC Firehouse 51 is getting a new chief behind the scenes. “Chicago Fire” showrunner Andrea Newman, who’s worked on the NBC drama since its first season, is stepping down at the end of the current Season 14, Variety reports. Co-executive producer Victor Teran has been promoted to executive producer and will serve as showrunner next season. (NBC renewed the show in March.) “Working at ‘Chicago Fire,’ with the absolute best cast and crew in the business, has been the highlight of my career,” Newman said in a statement. “Like so many…
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Mark Jenkin’s Rose Of Nevada and David Lowery’s Mother Mary. For Film Club, we revisit Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux.Joining host Leila Latif are Hannah Strong and Rafa Sales Ross. Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days…
Marilyn Manson needed to stop down during the first show of his current tour to address his sobriety with the crowd, in a moment he called a “confession.”Manson kicked off the 2026 edition of his One Assassination Under God tour at Yaamava’ Resort & Casino in Highland, California on April 22.What Marilyn Manson Said About His SobrietyManson was about halfway into his set during the first of two shows in Highland when he had a message for the crowd in attendance.READ MORE: Marilyn Manson Debuts Another New Backing Band at 2026 Tour Kickoff”I have a confession to make. Some of…
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What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write this book? They say, “Write what you know.” I’m originally from Minnesota, and I come from a family of nurses, so that inspired the Minnesota Northwoods setting and Night Nurse Nancy herself. As I developed Nancy’s character, I had so much fun creating a protagonist who was a little older, a little tougher, and a lot more into bedazzling than your average heroine. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of your book, what would they be? Nancy’s theme song would be “Night Nurse” by…
A reconstruction of the giant octopusYohei Utsuki/Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University While dinosaurs ruled the land, Cretaceous oceans were home to a fierce and enormous octopus species that may have reached up to 19 metres in length, rivalling the size of the largest predators of the time, including sharks and marine reptiles like plesiosaurs and mosasaurs. These octopuses were active predators, says Yasuhiro Iba at Hokkaido University in Japan. “They could be thought of as the orcas or great white sharks of the invertebrate world – large, intelligent and highly effective apex predators,” says Iba. “These were…
Casey Durkin/NBC Every day, TVLine’s What to Watch column spotlights new and returning English-language shows (and select movies) premiering or airing fresh episodes across broadcast, cable and streaming — organized below by release time and alphabetically within each slot. On TV this Friday: “Happy’s Place” wraps Season 2, Timothée Chalamet is “Marty Supreme,” and the NFL draft continues. If you’d like a recommended watch-list like this delivered to your inbox each morning, you can sign up for our free What to Watch newsletter here! Showtimes for April 24, 2026 3:00…
Luke Grimes has been a pivotal part of Yellowstone, where he has played Kayce Dutton since the original series premiered in 2018. He is still a part of the same universe, continuing his arc on the CBS spinoff, Marshals. The actor revealed that dedicated fans of Yellowstone are often left disappointed when they realize that Grimes is not actually a cowboy. Grimes discussed this in a recent radio appearance. Luke Grimes details how Yellowstone fans react after learning he’s ‘not a real cowboy’ Luke Grimes, who has portrayed Kayce Dutton on Yellowstone since the time it premiered, discussed some offbeat…
Nelly is reportedly gearing up to perform at a members-only club owned by the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., in Washington DC, ahead of this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The Grammy-winning rapper is said to be taking the stage on April 24th at Executive Branch, an exclusive club in Georgetown where a membership is rumored to start at $500,000. Per Politico, the guest list will feature senior Trump administration officials, leaders from the business and tech sector, and “non-fake news media.” This won’t be Nelly’s first performance for the Trump family. He previously played at Donald Trump’s Liberty Inaugural…
No one knows how to wear leggings in a chic, rich-looking way quite like L.A. girls. People don leggings in every city, but Angelenos are different, styling them for everything from sweaty workouts to elevated nights out—case in point: Elsa Hosk’s most recent leggings outfit. The model and Helsa founder, who announced that she and her husband Tom Daley are expecting their second child on Instagram on April 9, was recently seen heading into a pilates class in the California metropolis, wearing (shocker) leggings, but not just any leggings. Hosk chose a pair in a particularly luxurious color, skipping more…
Instead, Kamluk saw that it was a self-spreading piece of code with very different intentions. Using what was referred to within the code as “wormlet” functionality, Fast16 is designed to copy itself to other computers on the network via Windows’ network share feature. It checks for a list of security applications, and if none are present, installs the Fast16.sys kernel driver on the target machine.That kernel driver then reads the code of applications as they’re loaded into the computer’s memory, monitoring for a long list of specific patterns—“rules” that allow it to identify when a target application is running. When…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Novel, Survivor, is Being Republished Survivor by Octavia E. Butler was originally published in 1978 as the third book in the Patternist series. Later, Butler derided the book as rushed and undeveloped—she wrote it on a tight deadline to fund a research trip to write Kindred. After 40 years out of print, it’s now being republished. I was initially…
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies—tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new study published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society uses an unprecedented set of simulations to show just how powerfully these faint systems can reflect the conditions of the early universe and tell us why some galaxies grew and others did not. View Original Source Here
Steve Wilkie/Syfy The writing duo behind the 2015 Syfy series “12 Monkeys” – based on a 1995 time-travel movie of the same name — did not set out to reimagine the mind-bending Terry Gilliam film. While their previous credits included work on “Star Trek: Enterprise” as well as Fox’s dystopian future series “Terra Nova,” Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett reportedly wound up on the radar of “12 Monkeys” producers thanks to a spec script. Most of the time, spec scripts are written as a way of showing a writer’s voice and ability, rather than with…
1996 may be 30 years ago now, but it’s a time that still looms large in the minds of movie fans. That’s the year that gave us the first Space Jam and the first Mission: Impossible movie. It was the era of Disney’s animated The Hunchback of Notre Dame and their first live-action 101 Dalmatians. It’s the year of “Show me the money!” and “Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!” 1996 turned the Coen brothers into A-list directors, and made Nicolas Cage an action star. (Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, thank you for your service.)But only a tiny fraction of 1996’s movies make up most of our cinematic memories of that year. Look past the…
After a rocky production process, the new Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, is finally here. Originally slated for a 2025 release, the movie was pushed back when attorneys found a clause in a settlement with Jordan Chandler, who in 1993 accused Jackson of sexual abuse and whose ensuing deal with the estate barred any depiction of him in a future film. Upon the discovery, Michael’s original ending, which focused on those allegations, was rewritten and reshot to close on a more triumphant note—a process that cost between $10 million to $15 million.Some of Jackson’s family members along with his most diehard…
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Omni, which is building a “semantic translation layer” for enterprise data, raised a $120M Series C led by Iconiq at a $1.5B valuation, up from $650M in 2025 — For years, companies have poured money into data warehouses, dashboards, and business intelligence tools … View Original Source Here
Women’s fiction has long been a space for exploring relationships, identity and personal transformation — but what happens when you add a layer of danger, deception or the unknown? The result is a genre blend that delivers both emotional depth and page-turning tension. In these novels, ordinary lives are upended by secrets, crimes, hidden pasts and high-stakes choices, forcing women to confront not only external threats but their own limits, resilience and desires. From suburban communities hiding dark histories to international intrigue, magical abilities and psychological unraveling, these stories prove that suspense doesn’t just belong to thrillers — it thrives…
Chip designer Arm has entered the artificial intelligence (AI) hardware arena with its first in-house processor designed to power AI agents. Unlike conventional chatbots, these are much smarter systems that can take proactive actions to achieve their goals without as much human input or supervision.By focusing specifically on powering AI agents, Arm’s chip could help accelerate the adoption and widespread use of agentic AIs, be that in businesses or in one’s personal life, bringing AI much closer to what people would expect from virtual assistants.The parallel processing of graphics processing units (GPUs) is used to power large language models (LLMs)…
Netflix Every day, TVLine’s What to Watch column spotlights new and returning English-language shows (and select movies) premiering or airing fresh episodes across broadcast, cable and streaming — organized below by release time and alphabetically within each slot. On TV this Thursday: “Running Point” Season 2 tips off, “Stranger Things: Tales From ’85” debuts, and Richard Gadd headlines “Half Man.” If you’d like a recommended watch-list like this delivered to your inbox each morning, you can sign up for our free What to Watch newsletter here! Showtimes for April 23,…
Swedish filmmaker Ragnhild Ekner is a diehard IFK Göteborg fan and was partly driven to make a documentary about ultras, a subculture of diehard football fans, following the suicide of her close friend (explored in her previous film, The Traffic Lights Turn Blue Tomorrow). Going to football matches and the people she found there helped her through the grief; it’s a sentiment expressed by countless others in the film. Ekner meets and films ultras across the globe in their stadiums and off the pitch while also using archive footage to fill the gaps. The mass organisation involved with these fanatical supporters can sometimes be…
Olivia Dean kicked off her global The Art of Loving arena tour in Glasgow, Scotland on Wednesday night (April 22). The show at the city’s OVO Hydro is the first of an upcoming slate that will take the London-born artist to some of the biggest venues of her career. The U.K. leg will see her play six nights at London’s 20,000-capacity O2 Arena alongside dates in Manchester, and then heading to Ireland for shows in Dublin. The tour kick-off saw Dean debut a number of tracks from the Art of Loving live for the first time, including “I’ve Seen It”…
In the past, leggings had a reputation similar to sweatpants, in that they were often worn for comfort rather than fashion. Now, that’s changed significantly. Thanks to Rihanna, the trend of wearing leggings as pants has even made its way to Paris, a city known for its ultra-chic fashion. Last night, Rihanna was seen wearing a pair of leggings at one of her favorite upscale restaurants, César, which is an indicator of how chic her look must have been.Rih wore a pair of split-hem leggings with her bright-red lace-up Alaïa heels, which was an unexpected but cool contrast. Heels don’t…
Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning startup, Tools for Humanity, announced last week that a new product called Concert Kit—designed to give verified humans a way to purchase concert tickets—would first roll out on Bruno Mars’ world tour of his latest studio album, The Romantic.However, Bruno Mars Management and Live Nation, the producer for the Romantic Tour, told WIRED in a joint statement on Tuesday that the partnership “does not exist,” and that Tools for Humanity never even approached them about working together.The confusion stemmed from a Tools for Humanity event April 17 in San Francisco, where chief product officer Tiago Sada said…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write this book? Scruffy Little Devils began as a kind of therapy tool for me, something I had originally meant to write for myself at the age of 33. I experienced a lot of similarities before—feeling directionless, or sometimes hopeless. I wrote it primarily for people who are carrying their own version of that weight. People dealing with inherited trauma, searching for meaning, wondering whether the choices they made define them forever. The book doesn’t answer that question for the reader. It lets them sit with it, think it through,…
The dairy industry’s green claims are under scrutinyWitthaya/Getty Images The world’s biggest meat and dairy companies are flooding the public with promises to tackle global warming, but almost all are greenwashing, a new analysis claims. Animal agriculture is a major driver of climate change, responsible for at least 16.5 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions. In response to scrutiny, the industry has responded with a slew of sustainability pledges. To evaluate these efforts, Jennifer Jacquet at the University of Miami and her colleagues analysed the most recent sustainability reports and consumer-facing websites of 33 of the world’s largest…
Nicole Kidman has not only made her “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” debut, she’s also entered the ring with Nick Offerman. Episode 4 of the Apple TV series sees Jinx (Offerman) finding out about his Margo’s (Elle Fanning) new OnlyFans career when he walks in on a sexy photo shoot for her HungryGhost persona. His initial reaction? Pure judgment! The man urges his daughter not to be “one of those girls” who uses her sexuality to get what she wants, which, of course, enrages Margo, who is simply trying to make ends…