The national flags of the U.S. and China waving outside a building. Teh Eng Koon | AFP via Getty Images The U.S. has asked its citizens to “exercise increased caution” in China due to a “heightened risk of arbitrary detention” — a claim slammed by Chinese state-backed media Global Times as a “blatant distortion of
Sad news this morning, as the much-loved actress Kelly Preston has passed away at the age of 57. She had been privately battling breast cancer for two years. “On the morning of July 12, 2020, Kelly Preston, adored wife and mother, passed away following a two-year battle with breast cancer,” a family representative has said
As Dorothea Taylor stated in one of her videos earlier this year, “Drummers come in all ages, sizes, shapes, ethnicities. And regardless of how good you are, how old you are, we’re all still part of the drumming family.” Taylor has become a social media favorite, rocking it behind the kit on drum covers of
TODAY: In 1914, D. H. Lawrence weds Frieda Weekley. “History is not written just by acts of war and feats of conquest, nor should it be commemorated only in the monuments erected by its victors.” Sofia Perez travels through Spain as it grapples with its Fascist past. | Lit Hub Travel Estelle Laure reminds us
A 5,000-person event in Nice, France has caught the attention of the local government who are now requiring masks at all major events, even outdoors. The event last night was headlined by The Avener, who is from Nice. It’s unclear how long the event was scheduled for, but gathering 5,000 people out of nowhere isn’t
An investigation by Vice has revealed the market in stolen data counts government agencies as customers, as they seek to bypass data privacy laws. The Vice report starts with the revelation that a company called SpyCloud is unapologetic about dealing in stolen data. “We’re turning the criminals’ data against them, or at least we’re empowering
Photo by Arnold Jerocki/WireImageHere’s what we know about the show so far. By Maddison Glendinning Date July 9, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter French designer Simon Porte Jacquemus joins the short list of designers forging ahead with in person shows in the coming weeks and months, it has been revealed today. Taking to Instagram to announce his
Lea Michele has deactivated her Twitter account following the disappearance of her former Glee co-star Naya Rivera. It is unclear why the actress decided to delete her account at this particular time, though she did receive an onslaught of negative tweets involving Rivera over the past few days. Rivera has been missing since Wednesday, July
Veteran rockers Great White took the stage in Dickinson, North Dakota Thursday night (July 9), playing to a crowd where there were no social distancing or masking restrictions in place. The show was held outdoors as part of the “First on First: Dickinson Summer Nights” series, but footage shows many of the concertgoers without masks
July 10, 2020, 10:40am I am clearly a coastal elite out of touch with how people really read* because I did not know there’s a robust, overcrowded field of sports-themed romance novels. This is one of the things I learned in this feature at The Athletic about one former ad executive’s marketing-driven entrance into the
We just said how amazing HALIENE is in our coverage of her forthcoming collaboration with Excision and Wooli, but Seven Lions has known it for a long time. Teaming up with her again, as well as Last Heroes, on “Don’t Wanna Fall,” the new single is the follow up collaboration between Seven Lions and HALIENE
Boat ProGear B20 smart band, the company’s first attempt in the wearables space, has been launched. It boasts of features like real-time heart rate monitoring, activity tracking, and notification alerts, along with other typical smart band features. The Boat ProGear B20 comes in three colour options and is IP68 water resistant. Boat claims a standby
In evidence presented to the UK Science and Technology Committee, BT and Vodafone execs said completely removing Huawei by 2023 would cause major disruptions, even digital blackouts. The two telecoms operators, both of which are long-standing customers of Huawei, have warned politicians against hasty decisions. It does appear Huawei is living on borrowed time in
Photography courtesy of Alex Aubichon-Manitopyes.“It’s about offering designs that are representative of things that are important to Indigenous people, and sharing that in an authentic way.” By Odessa Paloma Parker Date July 9, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter “My Blood Memory is Couture.” That’s the ethos behind the accessory label Indi City, helmed by Angel Aubichon and
An American Airlines Group Inc. Boeing Co. 777-300ER aircraft sits at Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, China. Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images United Airlines and American Airlines have canceled service to Hong Kong after crews were told they would have to undergo mandatory Covid-19 testing. The deep throat saliva samples would be
Netflix’s Tiger King was back in the news again earlier this week after cadaver dogs thought they sniffed out some human remains on Joe Exotic’s former property. Exotic had to give up the zoo to his old pal Jeff Lowe, who now has to turn it over to the infamous Carole Baskin. For many, it
Scientists have named a new crab species after symphonic metal group Nightwish. A recently published scientific paper on Mesozoic reef crabs was submitted in November of last year and accepted in June. Amid the dozen-plus figures outlined in the paper is “Tanidromites nightwishorum,” a coral reef crab discovered in the Ernstbrunn quarries in Austria. “Named
July 10, 2020, 12:22pm Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, the man perennially in search of lost time, was born on this day in 1871. The ruminative frenchman is of course best known for his mammoth seven-volume novel À la recherche du temps perdu, in which the taste of a madeleine, and the involuntary memory