The explosive growth of wildfires in the Western US has spewed smoke across the landscape, creating a growing threat to public health. According to the LA Times, driven by climate change, the 2020 fire season was so bad that it doubled the previous record in California for acres burned, and at-home monitoring of the smoke’s effects on […]
National Mustard Day is celebrated annually on the first Saturday in August. It is always a fun-filled, sun-splashed day for the whole family. The National Mustard Museum in Wisconsin, is a real nonprofit museum dedicated to all things mustard, and it has been the official sponsor and host of the official Mustard Day event since […]
This month, Tiffany & Co. pulled an Oldsmobile. In an effort to lure the Gen Z world to try and buy some of their wares, the luxury jewelry brand rolled out a campaign called “Not Your Mother’s Tiffany”—and some of the “mothers” it alluded to were less than thrilled. The campaign’s multiple videos, running on […]
Last week’s earnings call sent shivers down the spines of multitudes of iPhone and iPad devotees. As reported by Macrumors, Apple CFO Luca Maesteri said that Apple is expecting supply constraints to affect the iPhone and iPad availability this Fall. “The supply constraints that we’ve seen in the June quarter will be higher in the […]
Saturday, the state of Florida reported more new COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control than any previous day in the coronavirus pandemic: 21,683. That’s a 12.1% jump over the previous record, Jan. 7’s 19,334 cases during the worst month of the pandemic. Daily case counts routinely surpassed 10,000 as the pandemic peaked a […]
You’ve probably seen the paparazzi images of Lady Gaga and Adam Driver, dressed in their ’80s and early ’90s finest, going all across Italy to film “House of Gucci,” Ridley Scott’s upcoming crime drama about Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani, a.k.a. Signore e Signora Gucci. The pics hold promises of camp, extravagance and another Gaga Oscar bid. (Plus, […]
Saweetie is the next superstar set to receive her very own McDonalds meal, and despite the “My Type” rhymer’s admittedly odd taste in food, the new creation for the fast-food chain sounds absolutely delicious. McDonald’s latest celebrity offering dubbed “The Saweetie Meal” comes packed with all of the rapper’s favorites including a Big Mac, medium […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk blasted Apple’s App Store fees on Twitter Friday, in a tweet that sides with Epic in the ongoing Epic v. Apple dispute. “Epic is right,” wrote Musk, before going on to call Apple’s App Store fees a “de facto global tax on the Internet.” Musk has clashed with Apple over the years due to employee […]
The Washington Post obtained an internal CDC document that shows the new COVID-19 Delta Variant appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox. The internal federal health document also argues that officials must “acknowledge the war has changed.” The “document” is an internal Centers for Disease Control and […]
On Tuesday, following a 10-minute trip to the edge of suborbital space on his privately-funded rocket ship, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced that he’s bestowing the “Courage and Civility Award” to chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, and Van Jones, CNN political commentator and founder of DreamCorps. The new prize “recognize[s] leaders who aim high, […]