Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, and Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services attend the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 10, 2019.Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft offered to sell its Bing search engine to Apple in 2018, Google said in a court filing earlier this month. The document, from Google’s antitrust case against the U.S. Justice Department, was unsealed on Friday.The legal battle over whether Alphabet has a monopoly in web search advertising touches on key agreements Google has in place with Apple and Android phone makers to…
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Travelers arrive for flights at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on March 16, 2021.Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAirlines are raising their prices to check a bag  again. Just how much you it will cost you, however, depends on when you pay for the service.United Airlines, American Airlines and JetBlue Airways are among the carriers that have raised the price to check bags this year. Each of them charge customers more if they check their bags at the airport or close to their departure compared with paying to check a bag online in advance.Carriers are encouraging…
South Carolina voters on Saturday are casting their ballots, deciding between former President Donald Trump or their former governor, Nikki Haley.Polls close at 7 p.m. ET after which votes will be counted and the winner announced. Haley intends to speak once the winner is declared. Trump is holding a watch party in South Carolina where he is also likely to speak.South Carolina holds an open primary, meaning that voters of any party can vote in the Republican primary as long as they have not already voted in the Democratic primary, which President Joe Biden won on Feb. 3.As South Carolinians…
Investor sentiment toward intermediate-term Treasury bonds may be changing.Schwab Asset Management’s David Botset is seeing more flows into bonds with maturity rates typically between three and five years  and sometimes out to 10 years.”People are starting to realize that we’re kind of at the peak of interest rate increases,” the firm’s head of innovation and stewardship told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “So, they’re looking to reposition the fixed-income portion of their portfolio to take advantage of where interest rates are likely to go next.”It’s a shift from last year when short-term bonds and money market funds saw large…
Free Nationals are back with their first new music in four years. The neo-soul group have tapped A$AP Rocky and Anderson .Paak for the song â€ÅGangsta.†Bringing the track to life is a François Rousselet–directed music video in which the three artists are portrayed by children as they handle a court case in a child-governed society. Check it out below.Free Nationals released their self-titled solo debut back in 2019 and earned a Grammy nomination the following year. They seized the opportunity to collaborate frequently on their album, tapping Kali Uchis, Syd, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, T.I., and the late Mac Miller…
An anti-racism protest rave march is to take place in London next month. The ‘House Against Hate’ march will take place on March 16 through the streets of central London. The event will also coincide with the United Nations Anti-Racism Day calling for â€Åthe UK establishment to stop the hate.†The â€Åmobile protest†is organised by R3 Soundsystem and Black Artist Database, with support from Stand Up To Racism UK, Love Music Hate Racism, and HOMO-CENTRIC Records (as per Mixmag). Artists appearing at the event include The Blessed Madonna, Hot Chip (performing a DJ set) and Normski. Check out the full…
It turns out Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus spacecraft didn’t land upright after all. In a with NASA Friday evening, the company revealed the lander is laying on its side after coming in a little faster than expected, likely catching its foot on the surface at the moment of landing. Fortunately, Odysseus is positioned in such a way that its solar panels are still getting enough light from the sun to keep it charged, and the team has been able to communicate with it. Pictures from the surface should be coming soon.While the initial assessment was that Odysseus had landed properly, further…
Mark Zuckerberg is seeking to avoid being held personally liable in two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta Platforms Inc. and other social media companies of addicting children to their products. The Meta chief executive officer made his case at a hearing Friday in California federal court, but the judge didn’t immediately make a decision. A ruling in Zuckerberg’s favor would dismiss him as a personal defendant in the litigation with no impact on the allegations against Meta.Holding him personally responsible may be a challenge because of a corporate law tradition of shielding executives from liability, especially at larger companies where decision-making…
It’s easy to forget that Blue Bloods is ending. Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 2 felt like any other episode of the series. But Jamie and Joe’s conflict led to Joe finally understanding something, and Frank’s conflict with the mayor was over the future of his job. Were these baby steps toward wrapping things up before the series finale next fall? Joe Hill has always been an outsider because he didn’t grow up with the Reagans, didn’t know his father, and wasn’t sure how he felt about them. When he first came onto the scene,…
SAN FRANCISCO – Relative Dynamics, a Maryland startup focused on engineering services and optical communications technology development, is growing rapidly thanks to recent government contracts. â€ÅSince 2021 we have doubled in size annually in terms of people employed, projects and revenue, Kush Patel, Relative Dynamics founder and CEO, told SpaceNews. When Laurel, Maryland-based Relative Dynamics was founded in 2011, the firm focused on engineering services. In 2016, the company expanded its research and development staff and began developing optical communications space and ground terminal technology independently. Small Business Innovation Research awards followed. Recently, Relative Dynamics began developing an optical ground…
The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time for free here. â€ÅScience is written in the language of mathematics,†proclaimed Galileo in 1623. And over the past few centuries science has become ever more mathematical. Nowadays, mathematics seems to hold total hegemony, particularly in the fields of quantum physics and relativity – the teaching of modern physics seems to involve deriving an… Read the original article…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on as the US Secretary of State gives statements to the media inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Defence Ministry, after their meeting in Tel Aviv on October 12, 2023. Blinken arrived in a show of solidarity after Hamas’s surprise weekend onslaught in Israel, an AFP correspondent travelling with him reported. He is expected to visit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Washington closes ranks with its ally that has launched a withering air campaign against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.Jacquelyn Martin | Getty ImagesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disclosed his first…
Several months before my short story collection Sex Romp Gone Wrong was published, I started joking that my new book was already banned in Florida and Iowa. It wasn’t entirely a joke. Both states had recently passed legislation requiring any materials depicting sex to be removed from school libraries. The laws also said schools couldn’t teach younger students about sexual orientation or gender identity. In the 2022-23 school year, according to Pen America, â€Åover 40% of all book bans occurred in school districts in Florida.†But districts in plenty of other states have also been facing challenges, usually over books…
Cotton is a fantastic material for shirts, but there are plenty of benefits to be found in other materials out there–for example, merino wool. That’s why the Merino wool shirt is a fall and winter staple for many men across the globe. Merino wool is an incredibly robust fabric that offers a ton of natural benefits while making you look sharp in the process. The best merino wool shirts are moisture-wicking, odor-resistant, and can even regulate temperature. It’s simple things like these that make your life so much easier when you throw on a Merino wool shirt. Not to mention,…
(Image credit: Robino Salvatore/GC Images/Getty Images)Lily James’ impressive accessory gameâ€â€which often includes a mix of Prada, Versace, and Chanelâ€â€doesn’t hit pause just because she’s traveling, or at least it didn’t on her most recent trip. Rather than opting for something a touch more practical for her flight back from Milan Fashion Week, she used the opportunity to debut one of 2024’s most-wanted handbags: Prada’s new buckle bag.The oversize, belt-embellished top handle, which she wore in a cognac-brown color, was first seen on the runway at the Italian brand’s spring/summer 24 show, making it highly sought after now that the season’s…
Well, let’s just say we’re glad that two people know how to take command of a situation when a cruise ship runs into trouble in the 9-1-1 Season 7 premiere  and those two are Athena (Angela Bassett) and Bobby (Peter Krause). We get a taste of just that in TV Insider’s exclusive first look at a new promo for the first responder series’ upcoming seventh season, premiering March 14 on ABC after moving from Fox. It offers not only a look at some of the emergencies to come for the 118 in Los Angeles  including a crashed jet…
Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during the 2024 NRB International Christian Media Convention Presidential Forum at The Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center on February 22, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jon Cherry | Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump on Friday urged Alabama’s legislature to preserve the availability of in vitro fertilization in the state, one week after a court ruling that prompted multiple IVF clinics to pause their services.”Today, I am calling on the Alabama Legislature to act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF in Alabama,” Trump wrote in a Truth…