She’s considered an influencer who uses TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to make financial education fun for young audiences.Kyla Scanlon, 26, is a former options trader and the founder of Bread, a company that produces videos and skits that go viral.”I’ll pretend to be [Federal Reserve Chair] Jerome Powell [or] pretend to be different stocks,” Scanlon told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “That really gets people involved because they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s funny. I can look at that and laugh’ … That really humanizes finance and brings people in in a way they wouldn’t normally expect.”Her content focuses on helping young…
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Big news in specialty this weekend as Asteroid City arrives in theaters with Wes Anderson and his army of fans behind it and a major marketing campaign by Focus Features. The director’s latest opens at six locations in New York and Los Angeles, where Focus has partnered with Landmark for the reopening of Sunset, the five-screen theater it took over from AMC early this year. Others are the Angelika, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn and AMC Lincoln Square in New York, and AMC Century City and Burbank in LA. The film, which premiered in Cannes last month (see Deadline review), will expand…
WASHINGTON — The Space Force awarded data analytics company Palantir $110.3 million in contract extensions for the company’s cloud-based data services. The Space Systems Command announced June 15 it has added one more year to Palantir’s existing contracts for data-as-a-service. Under a project called Warp Core, the Space Force since 2021 has used the company’s cloud platform and analytics services to aggregate large amounts of data from disparate sources. The one-year contract extensions include: $58.4 million for automatic data ingestion across the Department of the Air Force, continually pushing personnel, equipment, planning, health and other readiness data sources into a…
Microsoft announced new features and improvements to its AI-powered chatbot Bing Chat on Friday. Now, iPhone and iPad users can access Bing Chat through a dedicated iOS widget. This would allow users to directly engage with the chatbot without opening the app. Bing Chat already have a widget on Android. Additionally, Microsoft has expanded text-to-speech support for more than 30 additional languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu and Urdu. The latest update also brings improvement to the performance of the voice input button on the app.Microsoft, via a blog post on Friday, announced the arrival of new features to Bing…
James Trusty, attorney for Donald Trump, appears on “Meet the Press” in Washington, D.C., April 9, 2023.NBCUniversal | Getty ImagesAn attorney who quit the team defending Donald Trump in the criminal classified documents case said Friday he would no longer represent the former president in a separate defamation lawsuit against CNN.The lawyer, Jim Trusty, said in a court filing that his request to withdraw from the $475 million civil suit “is based upon irreconcilable differences” with Trump.”Counsel can no longer effectively and properly represent Plaintiff,” Trusty wrote in the filing in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Neither Trusty nor…
NewsAEW Collision’s Theme Song Is Elton John’s “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting”Watch the new Saturday night wrestling show’s opening credits sequence soundtracked by the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road classicBy Evan MinskerJune 16, 2023FacebookTwitterElton John, December 1973 (David Redfern/Redferns)FacebookTwitterAEW Collision is a new weekly wrestling show from All Elite Wrestling that debuts this Saturday, June 17, at 8 p.m. Eastern on TNT. Today it’s been revealed that the show’s theme song is an Elton John classic from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting.” Watch the show’s new opening credits sequence below.In the current televised wrestling landscape, John’s 1973…
The mid-2010’s saw an uptick in U.S. college closures, particularly among private nonprofit schools. This trend has affected tens of thousands of college students across the country.Since 2016, 91 U.S. private colleges have closed, merged with another school, or announced plans to close, according to a CNBC analysis of data from Higher Ed Dive. Almost half of those schools closed after the onset of the Covid pandemic in 2020. For many struggling schools the pandemic was the final straw — but two major themes showed up consistently throughout the closures: finances and enrollment.”There are two significant issues affecting higher education…
Kate Middleton truly dressed like a princess for King Charles III’s first Trooping the Colour as reigning monarch. The Princess of Wales opted to wear a green set this time, pairing an Andrew Gn ensemble with a wide-brimmed matching hat by Philip Treacy. She accessorized with the late Princess Diana’s earrings, a poignant tribute to the last Princess of Wales. She rode in the carriage alongside her three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, and Queen Camilla. Kate’s hair was styled elegantly up.The green itself in Kate’s outfit is symbolic and serves as an homage to the Irish…
Kate Roberts is something else, isn’t she? One moment on Days of Our Lives during the week of 6-16-23, she’s ordering a hit on Megan. The next, she’s inserting herself into a conversation that falls squarely into none-of-her-business territory. Even so, she’s one of the best parts of some otherwise stale stories. Thank goodness for Kate! Although Roman’s softened her somewhat, Kate has always had a hard edge, and that’s not changing any time soon. She’s also the queen of butting in, whether she’s poisoning Chloe to get back at her for cheating on Kate’s beloved son or telling Eric…
Socks help. Good personal hygiene helps. All kinds of things help. But the fact remains—feet are going to feet.The natural sweat that your feet produce inside your shoes creates a breeding ground for fungi and bacteria. And for that, you need to call in the reinforcements. Specifically, the best foot deodorant options to keep you smelling right from head to toe. Some of them are sprays. Others are powders. Others still are wipes. How you choose to apply your foot deodorant is neither here nor there. All that matters is that you do it, especially during the warmer months. And…
There’s a reason that we as a culture have spent the last 20 years debating whether there was enough room on the door for both Jack and Rose in Titanic. Watching Rose let Jack freeze to death in the water instead of just shifting a little bit to the left and letting him on the wardrobe door with her instilled in millions of watchers a profound sense of betrayal for the man she—and we—had grown to love. The way she moved his hand and let him float away when she realized he was dead? Unforgivable. Then again, we do live…
A bartender creates specialty cocktails made with Casamigos at the opening party for Alo Miami on December 16, 2021 in Miami, Florida.Jason Koerner | Getty ImagesCHICAGO — The spirits industry is overcoming economic headwinds to meet changing consumer preferences as it chips away at the dominance of beer.Spirits revenue market share grew from 28.7% in 2000 to 42.1% in 2022, surpassing beer for the first time ever, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. Beer holds a 41.9% market share, it said.The trade organization, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, held its annual conference this week in…
Helping hand Students supported in 2023 by the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund include (clockwise from top left) Raymond Isichei, Alix Freckelton, Karolina Szewczyk, Rojita Buddhacharya, Sinéad Mannion and Xinran Yang. A total of 10 physics PhD students from across the UK have been unveiled as the 2023 awardees of the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund. The fund aims to improve diversity in physics by offering scholarships to PhD students from groups currently underrepresented in the physics research community. The 10 new awardees takes the number of physics PhD students supported by the fund to 31. The fund was originally set…
Executives of Regal parent Cineworld, led by CEO Mooky Greidinger, have agreed to a payout in the $30 million range, Deadline has confirmed, in the event that they leave leave the company as it prepares to exit Chapter 11. Documents filed earlier this year during ongoing bankruptcy proceedings in the Southern District of Texas indicated that current management had previously signed a contingency consultancy agreement with lenders to ensure a swift exit from Chapter 11. There’s been no final decision on who will run the company, but their exit is likely. At a hearing this morning, Judge Marvin Isgur set…
LOS ANGELES – The UK Space Agency has a direct message on space sustainability. “We’re going to stop making it worse. And we’re going to start making it better,” Julie Black, UK Space Agency director of missions and capability for discovery and sustainability, said June 13 at the Secure World Foundation’s Space Sustainability Summit. Toward that goal, the UK Space Agency is continuing to encourage and prioritize space sustainability, both domestically and internationally. “A cross-agency space sustainability program is designed to mitigate the risks caused by space debris and promote the responsible use of space through a combination of regulation,…
Samsung Galaxy S23 series with Android 13-based One UI 5.1 skin was launched in February this year. Now the flagship smartphones have reportedly started receiving the June 2023 Android security patch. The latest firmware brings a 2x portrait option to the camera app and addresses autofocus issues. The update is said to have several stability improvements and bug fixes as well. Eligible Samsung Galaxy S23 series smartphones in some South East Asian markets are reportedly receiving the update now. It is said to have a 2.2GB file size.Samsung Galaxy S23 update changelogAs reported by SamMobile, the update for Samsung Galaxy…
In this articleMETAFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTFTC Chairwoman Lina Khan testifies during the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce hearing titled “Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission,” in Rayburn Building on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan refused to recuse herself from the agency’s case against Meta Platforms against the advisement of top agency officials, according to internal FTC documents published by Bloomberg News.An ethics official recommended Khan remove herself from a 2022 review of Facebook parent company Meta’s proposed merger…
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are continuing a theme for the Kardashian family … coming together to support their kids, despite a lot of past drama. The exes both showed up for son Saint’s basketball game Friday at the Mamba Academy in Thousand Oaks … though they both rolled up separately, with Kim bringing Saint to the game. Kanye came with an entourage … it doesn’t look like his wife Bianca Censori was there this time … but we’ve seen her support his kids recently, holding hands with North at Kanye’s birthday party. Kim and Kanye coming together to support…