Graydon Carter, the longtime editor of Conde Nast’s culture magazine “Vanity Fair,” will be stepping down in December after 25 years at the helm, the publication said on Thursday. Carter, 68, who has steered Vanity Fair through the shifting journalism landscape and expanded it onto a successful digital platform as …
your ad herePoll: Two-thirds of Americans Get Their News from Social Media
A full 67 percent of Americans now report receiving at least a portion of their news from social media, according to a new poll released Thursday. The Pew Research poll showed a small increase since early 2016, when 62 percent of people said they relied on social media for some …
your ad hereSpaceX Launches Air Force’s Super-secret Minishuttle
SpaceX launched the Air Force’s super-secret space shuttle on Thursday, a technology tester capable of spending years in orbit. The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, as schools and businesses boarded up for Hurricane Irma. It’s the fifth flight for one of these crewless minishuttles, known …
your ad hereStephen King Joins Moviegoers for Special Screening of ‘It’
Movie fans attending a special screening of the movie It in Bangor, Maine, got a bonus: Author and local resident Stephen King joined them. King’s radio station, WKIT-FM, sponsored the special showing Wednesday night, and King received a standing ovation. He told the moviegoers: “You’re going to be scared out …
your ad hereResearchers: For City Economies to Prosper, Poor Need Clean Power
Giving the poorest people in the world’s fast-growing cities access to affordable, clean energy supplies, while wiping out the use of hazardous solid fuels is essential for urban economies to grow on a warming planet, researchers said. Some half a billion people in urban areas still cook with traditional fuels …
your ad hereNo Smartphones! Vintage Mobile Phone Museum Opens in Slovakia
As new smartphones hit the market month in month out, one Slovak technology buff is offering visitors to his vintage cellphone museum a trip down memory lane – to when cellphones weighed more than today’s computers and most people couldn’t afford them. Twenty-six year-old online marketing specialist Stefan Polgari from …
your ad hereKate Millett, Feminist Author of ‘Sexual Politics,’ Dies
Kate Millett, the activist, artist and educator whose best-selling “Sexual Politics” was a landmark of cultural criticism and a manifesto for the modern feminist movement, has died. She was 82. Millett died of a heart attack while on a visit to Paris on Wednesday, according to a person with …
your ad hereDry Jordan Launches Project to Grow Crops From Seawater
Water-poor Jordan on Thursday launched a project using seawater to produce crops with clean energy. Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, which contributed most of the $3.7 million cost, inaugurated the facility in the kingdom’s Red Sea port city of Aqaba. Haakon told reporters …
your ad hereEx-pharma CEO Shkreli Selling One-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Album
Former pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli has put the only known copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album he bought for $2 million in 2015 up for sale on eBay. In the auction listing for “Once Upon A Time in Shaolin,” Shkreli writes that he has “not carefully listened to the album.” …
your ad hereEx-Manson Disciple Must Get Past Governor to See Freedom
Getting the approval of a parole panel was the easy part for Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson’s murderous followers. Between her and her release stands a governor who has shown zero willingness to allow anyone involved in the Manson killings to go free. Van Houten, …
your ad hereSaudi Filmmakers Build Audiences Without Cinemas
With daring filmmakers, untold stories and entertainment-starved young people, Saudi Arabia has all the makings of a local movie industry — except for theaters. As the traditionally austere kingdom cautiously embraces more forms of entertainment, local filmmakers are exploring a new frontier in Saudi art, using the internet to screen …
your ad hereSpace Business Booming in Cape Canaveral
After the last space shuttle mission ended, in July 2011, the activity at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, seemed to be waning. NASA’s next launch vehicle was still in the early stages of design, so launch activity was transferred to the Russian space center in Baikonur. But …
your ad hereHouse of Representatives Passes Bill on Self-Driving Vehicles
U.S. congressmen have approved a bill to deploy self-driving cars and prevent states from blocking them. The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday passed the bill that would allow automakers to obtain exemptions to deploy up to 25,000 vehicles without meeting auto safety standards in the first year. That number would …
your ad hereWaste Not: Belgian Startup to Print 3-D Recycled Sunglasses
A Belgium-based start-up is on its way to making the world a bit sunnier, by printing the first 3-D sunglasses out of recycled plastic. The Antwerp-based company w.r.yuma – pronounced “We are Yuma” and named after one of the sunniest places on earth – began a month-long online crowd-sourcing campaign …
your ad hereToronto Film Fest Lineup Will Generate Buzz, and Debates
Few institutions in cinema can match the teeming, overwhelming Toronto International Film Festival as a conversation-starting force. It simply has a lot of movies worth talking about. And this year, many of the films that will parade down Toronto red carpets will hope to shift the dialogue not just …
your ad hereStudy: Treating Insomnia Eases Anxiety, Depression
Treating young people who suffer from insomnia by using online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) could reduce debilitating mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, scientists said Wednesday. In a large trial published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, researchers at Oxford University’s Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute also found that …
your ad herePlastic Found in Drinking Water on Five Continents
Tiny pieces of plastic have been found in drinking water on five continents – from Trump Tower in New York to a public tap on the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda – posing a potential risk to people’s health, researchers said on Wednesday. Plastic degrades over time into tiny …
your ad here‘Hunger Games’ Actor Donald Sutherland to Get Lifetime Oscar
Donald Sutherland, the star of “MASH,” “The Hunger Games” and more than 140 other movies, is to get a lifetime achievement Oscar, along with Belgian director Agnes Varda, Oscar organizers said on Wednesday. Sutherland and Varda will be joined by African-American indie film director Charles Burnett and cinematographer Owen Roizman …
your ad hereSphere Sculpture Has New Home Overlooking 9/11 Memorial
A bronze sphere damaged during the Sept. 11 attacks is now at its permanent home overlooking the rebuilt World Trade Center site. The 25-ton (23-metric ton) Koenig Sphere was officially placed on view Wednesday at the new Liberty Park overlooking the 9/11 memorial. The Port Authority of New …
your ad hereZac Posen, The Comeback Kid, Featured in New Documentary
Boy wonder, tyrant, genius: Zac Posen has been called that and more. The fashion designer, at 36, has experienced more ups and downs than his years might indicate and all are laid bare in a new documentary, “House of Z,” available on demand Wednesday at Vogue.com. Without a …
your ad hereTech Leaders Prepare to Fight DACA Decision
They took to Twitter, Facebook and their corporate blog posts. They called their congressional representatives, signed letters and pledged to fight. This week, many tech industry leaders geared up for battle after the Trump administration announced it was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows people …
your ad hereFacebook: Likely Russia-based Operation Bought Ads During 2016 US Election
Facebook Inc. said on Wednesday it had found that an influence operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May. Facebook, the dominant social media network, said that many of the ads promoted 470 “inauthentic” accounts and pages that …
your ad hereReal-life Indiana Jones Finds Ancient Religious Sites in Turkey
Hollywood’s famous archeologist Indiana Jones has nothing on Mark Fairchild. The film character and the religion professor both teach at a university in Indiana. Like Jones, Fairchild travels to far-off places in search of Biblical antiquities and doesn’t like snakes. In fact, his students call him Indiana Mark. And like …
your ad hereTrump Administration Looking to ‘Real World’ Measures Against Cyber Enemies
Whether it be meddling in a U.S. presidential election or accessing the fingerprints of some 6 million federal workers, American officials are warning a cyberattack on the United States may be met with more than a retaliatory cyberstrike. Instead, nation states, terrorists and other adversaries attacking the U.S. though cyberspace …
your ad hereBiblical Archeologist Searching Ancient Turkish Sites
Like the film character Indiana Jones, Mark Fairchild is a professor at a university in Indiana. He travels to far off places in search of Biblical antiquities and doesn’t like snakes. That’s why his students call him Indiana Mark. It’s also one of the reasons he’s the focus of a …
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