No sitting U.S. president had publicly endorsed a stock by its ticker symbol before Friday, April 10. Then President Donald Trump did it. The president posted on Truth Social, praising Palantir Technologies by name and ticker. "Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting ...
No sitting U.S. president had publicly endorsed a stock by its ticker symbol before Friday, April 10. Then President Donald Trump did it. The president posted on Truth Social, praising Palantir Technologies by name and ticker. "Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting ...
US President Donald Trump attacked Pope Leo on social media on Sunday, saying the first American pope should “stop catering to the Radical Left”. It was an extraordinary broadside against the global leader of the Catholic Church, exacerbating a feud that began over the war in Iran. “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” the president wrote on social media. He also wrote that...
US President Donald Trump attacked Pope Leo on social media on Sunday, saying the first American pope should “stop catering to the Radical Left”. It was an extraordinary broadside against the global leader of the Catholic Church, exacerbating a feud that began over the war in Iran. “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” the president wrote on social media. He also wrote that “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon”. A short time later,...
What a relief that this is the end for Sam Levison’s grim drama. A show which was once blackly funny is now humourless torture porn To say that season three of Euphoria is long-awaited would be something of an understatement. HBO’s high school drama debuted in 2019, when it garnered a fanfare of attention with its heady mix of grinding trauma, heavenly eyeshadows and cheap/daring (delete as approp...
What a relief that this is the end for Sam Levison’s grim drama. A show which was once blackly funny is now humourless torture porn To say that season three of Euphoria is long-awaited would be something of an understatement. HBO’s high school drama debuted in 2019, when it garnered a fanfare of attention with its heady mix of grinding trauma, heavenly eyeshadows and cheap/daring (delete as appropriate) feats, including a locker room scene starring 30 penises. In the years since, it cemented itself as a show with much to say about gen Z’s relationship to sex, drugs and mental health, and pushed Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney and former Disney teenybopper Zendaya to the A-list. It has also released a mere 18 episodes in that time, a victim of everything from the Covid pandemic to the Los Angeles fires. Like a new Rihanna album, Euphoria season three has – in time – become shorthand for a pop culture mirage that would maybe, possibly arrive sometime before 2030. At least, we hoped, before most of the cast were in their 30s. Excitement, too, has waned over time. Rumours of rifts between the cast and creator Sam Levinson have only grown since its return was confirmed last autumn, and the press tour that followed has had a distinct flavour of “contractual obligation” about it (social media posts from the cast were few and far between, while Zendaya, in an interview with Variety , ambiguously described filming as a “whirlwind”). It brings me no pleasure, then, to report that, based on the three episodes released for review, Euphoria’s third (and probably final) run was absolutely not worth the wait. It’s a grubby, humourless work of torture porn that’s obsessed with and repulsed by sex work. Continue reading...
China’s aviation authorities have mobilised a range of resources to support European certification of the C919, the home-grown airliner aiming to take on Boeing and Airbus, with steady progress made in recent months, multiple sources said. Technicians and pilots from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have set up shop in Shanghai for more checks and in-flight tests in recent months, ...
China’s aviation authorities have mobilised a range of resources to support European certification of the C919, the home-grown airliner aiming to take on Boeing and Airbus, with steady progress made in recent months, multiple sources said. Technicians and pilots from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have set up shop in Shanghai for more checks and in-flight tests in recent months, according to a source who took part in some technological exchanges with the agency. “They now stay...
Last week, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy somewhat shocked investors. Extending the technological developmental work the company's already done to serve its cloud computing customers, in his recent annual letter to shareholders , Jassy floated the prospect of outright selling its home-grown artificial intelligence (AI) processor chips to third parties, potentially pitting it against industry-leading Nvidia...
Last week, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy somewhat shocked investors. Extending the technological developmental work the company's already done to serve its cloud computing customers, in his recent annual letter to shareholders , Jassy floated the prospect of outright selling its home-grown artificial intelligence (AI) processor chips to third parties, potentially pitting it against industry-leading Nvidia . It's just an idea, of course. It's not happened yet. And maybe it never will. If it does end up happening, though, there's an indirect and often-overlooked beneficiary of Amazon's new opportunity. That's Arm Holdings (NASDAQ: ARM) , which largely designed several of Amazon's processing chips. Continue reading