Top Editors Abruptly Leave Village Voice Will Bourne, who became editor in chief of The Village Voice in November, and Jessica Lustig, the deputy editor since January, are leaving the weekly publication. They met with the staff at 11 a.m. on Thursday and said that Christine Brennan, executive editor of Voice Media Group, had instructed them to lay off or drastically reduce the roles of five employees on the 20-person staff. More
Microsoft may buy Barnes & Noble's Nook unit for $1 billion According to internal documents obtained by the website TechCrunch, Microsoft has offered $1 billion for the digital assets of Nook Media, Barnes & Noble's digital book venture. According to internal documents obtained by the website TechCrunch, Microsoft has offered $1 billion for the digital assets of Nook Media, Barnes & Noble's digital book venture. More
Bayer to pay $1.1B for California firm Conceptus Germany drug company Bayer AG says it intends to buy California-based Conceptus to expand its birth control offerings. Bayer said Monday it would launch a pupublicblic offer to pay $31.00 per share for all the stock in Conceptus, Inc. That means Bayer would pay $1.1 billion. More
Rare nickel coin auctioned for $3m A century-old US five-cent coin - illegally cast, found in a car crash, deemed a fake and abandoned for decades - is sold for $3.1m at auction. More
Hunter Biden laptop to be introduced as evidence at gun trial, special counsel Weiss says in filing The development came on the same day a federal judge postponed Hunter Biden's Los Angeles trial on tax charges until Sept. 5. 05/22/2024 - 9:52 am | View Link
Sustainable, high-performance paper coating material could reduce microplastic pollution Plastic pollution presents a global challenge that must be solved. In particular, packaging accounts for 30–50% of the total plastic consumption. While paper packaging is eco-friendly, it lacks ... 05/22/2024 - 6:32 am | View Link
Special counsel in Hunter Biden case plans to call his ex-wife, brother's widow as witnesses in upcoming trial In court papers filed ahead of a June 3 trial, the special counsel suggested they would call multiple women who had relationships with Hunter Biden to testify. 05/21/2024 - 10:28 am | View Link
Sussex Central High School expanding to address overcrowding When the bell rang at 1:03 p.m. on a recent school day at Sussex Central High, students flooded the hallway to get their next class. Teachers also quickly navigated through ... 05/21/2024 - 5:00 am | View Link
Internet in stitches as Jimmy Kimmel roasts Rudy Giuliani for being served indictment papers on birthday Giuliani was indicted in April over his efforts to fraudulently overturn the 2020 presidential vote in the state of Arizona ... 05/21/2024 - 1:58 am | View Link
Nashville, Tenn. — Nashville councilmembers have rejected plans for a glowing sign to be erected at Morgan Wallen’s new bar along the city’s neon-lit strip of honky tonks, citing his use of a racial slur that caused controversy in 2021 and recent criminal charges accusing the country star of throwing a chair off a rooftop near two police officers.
The Nashville Metro Council voted 30-3 Tuesday evening against the proposed sign at Morgan Wallen’s This Bar & Tennessee Kitchen, which is set to open this weekend.
If you've ever struggled with how to turn off your iPhone 14, you've come to the right place. We spend so much time with our phones on and glued to our hands, it's understandable if you've never figured out how to even turn it off. But don't worry, it's very easy to do.
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Total Time
30 seconds
What You Need
iPhone 14 or any iPhone with Face ID
Step 1:
How to manually turn off your iPhone 14 (and all iPhones with Face ID)
To turn off your iPhone 14, simply hold the side button and either of the volume buttons on the other side until the Power Off slider appears on the screen.
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is preparing for yet another change under its owner Elon Musk that seemingly no user has asked for. According to X's Director of Engineering Haofei Wang, Musk's social media platform is preparing to remove public "likes" from users' profile page. This means that X users will no longer be able to browse what posts other users have liked."Yeah, we are making likes private," Wang said on X in response to a post by MacRumors researcher Aaron Perris.
Tweet may have been deleted
Perris shared a post on Tuesday concerning a new flag he discovered in the X app for iOS, which completely turned off the likes tab on every X users' public profile when turned on.
Tired of using the same set of emoji? Great news. There may be more soon. On its website, the Unicode Consortium (a non-profit organization that, among many other things, decides which emoji make it onto people's phones) posted some samples of the next batch of emoji that could come to iOS and Android soon.
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The lizard Podarcis muralis nigriventris might not grow to a freakish size and smash everything in sight, but evolution has turned this lizard into the Incredible Hulk of sorts—green skin included. P. nigriventris is something like the imposing Marvel superhero when compared to other strains of common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis).
Video of baggage handlers unloading a Delta Air Lines flight and carelessly tossing luggage and golfing equipment belonging to a Tennessee university men’s golf team went viral Wednesday, prompting the airline to issue an apology and ask the team for a second chance.
The East Tennessee State University men’s golf team posted the video on X late Tuesday night.