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Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander on display at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.NASAShares of Intuitive Machines jumped 16% in trading Friday after the company’s successful first moon landing.Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C cargo moon lander known as “Odysseus” on Thursday became the first privately developed spacecraft to land on the lunar surface — as well as the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on the moon in more than 50 years.The company, based in Houston, Texas, confirmed that the IM-1 mission lander was standing upright and sending data back to Earth.”Odysseus has found his new home,” Tim Crain, Intuitive Machines’ CTO and IM-1 mission director, said Thursday…

British grime pioneer Wiley has been stripped of his MBE for â€Å�bringing the honours system into disrepute,” BBC News reports. The decision from the Honours Forfeiture Committee comes nearly four years after the musician made numerous antisemitic statements online. Wiley was appointed to be a member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2017.Immediately following Wiley’s outburst, the Campaign Against Antisemitism called for the revocation of the musician’s MBE. In a new statement, a spokesperson for the British organization said:Today’s decision marks the culmination of nearly four years of dogged perseverance. We have…

AURORA is set to front the new season of Tearjerker podcast on BBC Sounds about the â€Å�healing power of emotional music”. The artist will be hosting the fourth season of the podcast, following in the footsteps of Jorja Smith, Jordan Rakei and Sigrid. Per a press release, AURORA’s music choices range from classical to electronica, pop and more and explore themes such as â€Å�the first tear”, and â€Å�songs of hope”. Each episode includes a special feature ‘The Song That Saves Me’, featuring listeners’ suggestions of tracks that helped them get through difficult times. The season is made up of 12…

Amazon will pay out $1.9 million to more than 700 migrant workers to settle claims of human rights abuses following exploitative labor contracts,  The impacted laborers were working at two of the company’s warehouses in Saudi Arabia.Amazon saying it hired a third-party labor rights expert to investigate warehouse conditions. The organization found numerous violations of Amazon’s supply chain standards, including â€Å�substandard living accommodations, contract and wage irregularities and delays in the resolution of worker complaints.”This follows an from last October that detailed various alleged human rights abuses experience by those contracted to work in Amazon facilities in the region, and…

Amazfit Active Edge was unveiled in India on February 23, Friday. Details about the smart wearable have been revealed by the company and it will be available for purchase in the country later this month. The smartwatch comes in three colour options, with a round dial, four buttons, and is claimed to sport a rugged design. It comes with multiple pre-loaded gym, exercise, and workout training modes. It also supports more than 100 watch faces and is claimed to offer a battery life of up to 16 days.Amazfit Active Edge price in India, availabilityOffered in Lava Black, Mint Green, and Midnight Pulse…

Oh, Bode is certainly back, and so is the melodrama! Bringing us back to Three Rock was the best way to get a better feel for what Fire Country Season 2 will be like, even if it took a convoluted and controversial turn to keep Bode chained to the fire camp. That said, Fire Country Season 2 Episode 2 only proved that some of the concerns about this series will come to fruition if we continue down this route. Fire Country isn’t even pretending as if it’s not a late-night soap opera at this point. …

A Ukrainian soldier in a shelter at his fighting position in the direction of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 20 February 2024.Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesWhen Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, the stout resistance mounted by the country’s armed forces and overwhelming Western support for Kyiv — along with some obvious military overreach by Moscow — raised hopes that Ukraine’s outnumbered and outgunned army could beat back the invading forces.Fast forward two years and hopes of a Ukrainian victory look diminished and increasingly hollow, as do Western pledges to support Ukraine “for as long as it takes.”As it stands,…

Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the book Unsex Me Here by Aurora Mattia, which will be published by Coffee House Press on September 24, 2024. Preorder the book here. â€Å�These are stories about attempting to outrun time; about trying to remember transfemme pasts; about magic touching everything except the possibility of lasting love.” From a shapeshifting garden somewhere in Michigan to a West Texas town with a supernatural past, from a stalactite cavern in the birthplace of Aphrodite to a secret waterfall in Texarkana: from nowhere to anywhere, Aurora Mattia chases glimpses of paradise. Her gemstone prose shatters into…

As a soccer-obsessed 90s kid, idolizing Golden Balls was basically a given. I copied the boots he wore, the way he kicked the ball, and even how he cut his hair (yes, I rocked the mohawk). Until one day I had to grow up—signing off with a number seven tattoo on my wrist, of course. But then, just as I thought I was over my adolescent love affair, I discovered the best David Beckham cologne (cue celebratory music). Now, instead of wearing a sarong (jokes) and calling my wife Posh, I was able to carry the essence of my childhood…

We’ve all heard of white noise, the sound of well, nothing really—it’s more of a mix of sound frequencies to create a static-like sound. That fizzy buzz has been used since the 1960s to help drown out the world around us, but there’s another sound that’s all the rage right now on social media platforms and music apps and it promises better results than white noise: Brown noise. In scientific circles, it’s technically classified as red noise, but the name comes from the way it’s produced. The sound signals change randomly to produce the sound of static, mimicking a type…

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Fire Country Season 2 Episode 2 â€Å�Like Breathing Again.”] â€Å�It was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Fire Country star Kevin Alejandro admits when it came to directing a scene in the latest episode: His character’s daughter, Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila), took on a dangerous cave rescue. Gabriela saved the victim and was fine … meaning she can now focus on what her father had to tell her after. Manny said that her mother didn’t abandon them, but rather, he was never there for her. And so he encourages her to invite her to her upcoming…

Changpeng Zhao, founder and CEO of Binance, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2022.Benoit Tessier | ReutersU.S. prosecutors Friday asked a judge to tighten the bond conditions of billionaire Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao as he awaits his April sentencing for breaking a federal anti-money laundering law, court filings show.Zhao pleaded guilty in late November to a charge of failure to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, and stepped down as Binance’s CEO at the same time.Under the…

Runstudio | The Image Bank | Getty ImagesCredit card interest rates have ballooned to record highs in recent years — and the growing portion of the formula that generates profit for card issuers is partly to blame, according to a new analysis by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The average consumer paid a 22.8% interest rate on their credit card balance at the end of 2023, the highest since the Federal Reserve began tracking data in 1994.Interest charges, expressed as an annual percentage rate, are up about 10 points in the past decade, from 12.9%. Total credit card debt and average…

Beacon Audiobooks has just released â€Å�Far Away Places: Vice Admiral Charles Emery Rosendahl and the Navy’s Airship Program” written by author M. Ernest Marshall and narrated by Doug Greene. Following the First World War, it was expected that the next war would be between Japan and the U.S. for control of the vast Pacific Ocean. Responsibility for conducting surveillance of the Pacific to detect attacks from Japan fell to the Navy. This was a problem for the Navy because surface ships were too slow and the Navy had too few of them, and airplanes lacked the range to conduct the…

The exterior of the Warner Bros. Discovery Atlanta campus is pictured after the Writers Guild of America began its strike against the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 2, 2023.Alyssa Pointer | ReutersWarner Bros. Discovery missed analyst targets for both profit and revenue in the fourth quarter as advertising slumped and the company failed to provide free cash flow guidance for 2024.Shares of Warner Bros. Discovery fell 12% in early trading Friday after the report.The company’s fourth-quarter net loss was $400 million, or 16 cents per share, compared with a loss of $2.1 billion, or…

Capital One headquarters in McLean, Virginia on February 20, 2024. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty ImagesCapital One’s blockbuster takeover proposal for Discover Financial includes a $1.38 billion breakup fee if Discover decides to go with another buyer, but no such fee if U.S. regulators kill the deal, people with knowledge of the matter told CNBC.Capital One said late Monday it had an agreement to purchase rival credit card player Discover in an all-stock transaction valued at $35.3 billion.While Discover can’t actively solicit alternative offers, it can entertain proposals from other deep-pocketed bidders before shareholders vote on the transaction.In the unlikely…

Justin Timberlake has shared another new song from his next album, Everything I Thought It Was. Timberlake wrote his new track, â€Å�Drown,” with Louis Bell, Henry Walter, Amy Allen, and Kenyon Dixon, and Bell co-produced it with Cirkut. Listen to the song below.â€Å�Drown” is the second single from Everything I Thought It Was, following â€Å�Selfish.” Timberlake performed â€Å�Selfish” and the Tobe Nwigwe collaboration â€Å�Sanctified” on a January episode of Saturday Night Live.Everything I Thought It Was, Timberlake’s follow-up to 2018’s Man of the Woods, is out March 15. The pop singer begins his tour in support of the new album…

Following anti-Semitic comments he made online, Wiley has been stripped of his MBE for â€Å�bringing [the] honours system into disrepute”. The British Grime artist had received the honour back in December 2017 for his services to music. However, according to a list published on the Cabinet Office website, it appears that he has forfeited the MBE (via The Mirror). The honour being revoked comes in light of the numerous anti-Semitic statements made by the musician, which stem back nearly four years, and calls for action from the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA). Back in 2020, the London MC faced backlash after…