Here’s what you need to know before markets open. 1. Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel says a COVID-19 vaccine is closer than markets think, and could be here by the end of the fall.”We may find ourselves with a workable vaccine for high risk individuals by the end of the fall, early winter,” he said. 2. […]
Amazon is having a one-day sale with up to 25% off Sandisk and Western Digital memory cards, storage drives, and more
Sandisk and Western Digital memory cards and storage accessories are up to 25% off during Amazon’s one-day sale. Several memory cards, internal and external drives, and network-attached storage devices are currently down to their lowest price ever. Highlights include a SanDisk 128GB Extreme MicroSDXC UHS-I memory card for $20 and a SanDisk 1TB Extreme PRO […]
Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that scraped billions of faces off the internet, was just hit with a data privacy complaint in Europe
Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI was hit with a data privacy complained filed to France’s privacy regulator on Wednesday. Clearview AI is a US facial recognition company with a database made up of billions of photos scraped from the internet. It sells access to this database to law enforcement agencies. The complaint was filed […]
Duchess Meghan looked fantastic for the virtual UN Foundation’s Girls Up Summit
The Duchess of Sussex attended the virtual Girl Up Leadership Summit yesterday, and she gave a keynote speech. Something I didn’t know: this summit is part of the UN Foundation. Which… is fascinating for a lot of different reasons. Meghan had to give up her pre-royal charity work when she married Harry, and I remember […]
Phoenix’s mayor says Arizona’s coronavirus surge was preventable and unnecessarily political: ‘It’s heartbreaking’
Arizona’s coronavirus cases have jumped from around 20,120 on June 1 to more than 128,000 on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University. Maricopa County, where Phoenix is located, has nearly 65% of the state’s cases. Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego says the city is struggling with insufficient testing capacity, a high positivity rate in COVID-19 tests, […]
Viola Davis covers Vanity Fair: ‘As women, when you speak up, you’re labeled a bitch’
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) on Jul 14, 2020 at 4:02am PDT Viola Davis covers Vanity Fair, in the first VF cover shot by a Black photographer. The photoshoot is so good and she looks amazing. The NY Times has an interview with the man who shot this […]
Velma from Scooby-Doo is confirmed gay and has a girlfriend
Scooby-Doo! producer confirms Velma is lesbian. pic.twitter.com/jDUUYkJrsC — Pop Base (@PopBase) July 13, 2020 If you are unfamiliar with Scooby-Doo, I am going to send you to Wiki for a crash course, or find it on streaming and watch (You won’t be sorry). For those of us who have been around since the cartoon’s inception […]
Kiki Layne on The Old Guard: ‘The weapons training was dope. The gym, not so much’
View this post on Instagram First day of the virtual press tour for @oldguardmovie and @waymanandmicah said No more quarantine leggings and t-shirts 😂 Also pretty sure this is the first dress I’ve worn in months… A post shared by KiKi Layne (@kikilayne) on Jul 7, 2020 at 1:24pm PDT A few days ago I […]
The Brand Investment in Esports Report
Esports viewership is on the rise. Thanks in part to streaming services such as Twitch, the number of esports fans globally is anticipated to surge 59% over the next four to five years. This rapid expansion, coupled with the tendency for esports spectators to be younger and more receptive to sponsorship, is driving brand investment […]
Bari Weiss quits her NYT column, complains about the perils of cancel culture
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that during a global racial justice movement, mostly white intellectuals are complaining about “cancel culture” and whether or not they’re still the gatekeepers to political and social thought. Bari Weiss signed that awful “there should be no consequences to free speech” open letter, the same as JK Rowling and […]
Trump broke presidential protocol by turning a standard White House press statement into a rambling, rally-like attack on Joe Biden
President Donald Trump launched into a long, campaign-rally-style attack on Joe Biden during a speech in the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday. The setting is historically used for official presidential announcements, and it is against White House protocol to launch campaign attacks against political rivals in speeches there. Trump’s trademark rallies were called off […]
George Soros, John Paulson, and other billionaire investors won’t have to disclose their stock portfolios if a proposed SEC rule passes
Billionaire investors including George Soros and David Tepper won’t have to reveal their stock portfolios every quarter if a new SEC proposal is implemented. The investment firms run by Soros, Tepper, John Paulson, Paul Tudor Jones, and David Einhorn would all be exempt from filing 13-F forms if the agency raises the disclosure threshold from […]