Warner Music Group said on Thursday it would lay off about 150 employees, in addition to its earlier job cuts this year, totaling to about 13% of its workforce as part of a revised strategic restructuring plan to free up funds. In February, Warner Music said that it would cut 600 employees. The company is now … Read more
Ross Jarman Ihab Amed working on the test jet engine In a building on the edge of a business park outside Sheffield, researcher Ihab Ahmed is preparing to fire up a small jet engine. Originally used as an auxiliary power unit for a commercial airliner, it has been turned into a testbed for new fuels … Read more
Vicky Boyd Peter and Vicky Boyd say her symptoms after taking fake semaglutide were terrifying For those with severe weight issues, semaglutide – the active ingredient in slimming drugs – can be a life-changer. Celebrity success stories have massively increased demand, but brought with it a booming black market for illegal and often life-threatening products. … Read more
Shawn Green was driving back to Orange County from Stanford, where he had dropped his youngest daughter off for her freshman year of college, when the text messages began pouring in. “My phone started blowing up,” the former Dodgers slugger said, “so it wasn’t hard to figure out what was going on.” Green set a … Read more
Reuters — Rivers in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil fell to their lowest levels in over a century on Monday as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem. The port of Manaus, the region’s most populous city, at the meeting of the … Read more
Internet lingerie startup “Adore Me” aims to disrupt the U.S. lingerie market. One strategy their using, is to crowdsource the designs they bring to market. Source link
I am eager to fix my front lawn this year. When we installed a solar array last fall, we had to dig some significant trenches through the garden. They reseeded the lawn where it was damaged, but somehow, I have no turf grass and instead a bright green swath of crabgrass. My plan is to … Read more
Bob Hill is back and overcome by impulse. Problem No. 1 was I left my reading glasses in the car. Problem No. 2 was I was out foraging box-store garden centers in frosty December for whatever was left. Problem No.3 was that in having approached eight full decades of life I have taken a solemn … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is awarding over $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials used for electric vehicles, part of a continuing push to reduce China’s global dominance in battery production for EVs and other electronics. The grants will fund a total of 25 projects in … Read more
Chris Baraniuk It’s estimated that one third of the world’s airline seats are made in Northern Ireland In a warehouse building in a quiet town in Northern Ireland, a robot arm is opening and closing an airplane meal table over and over again. It has been programmed to carry out this mundane task no fewer … Read more