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These Are the Summer Sandals Alexa Chung and Sienna Miller Agree On
As a brand, Birkenstock is no stranger to designer collaborations. Over the years, the footwear label has partnered with the likes of Valentino, Rick Owens and more, to create special edition iterations of its instantly-recognizable sandals. Of course, this summer is no different as Birkenstock recently launched a collaboration collection in partnership with buzzy, New York-ba...
I Do All My Skincare at Home But Leave Facials to the Pros—Here’s Why
Well, pretty much whatever you want them to be. Facials are, as the word implies, treatments carried out on your face. Underneath this umbrella comes a host of treatment styles that you can choose from based on your skin’s needs. To fill you in on some of the different types of facials around, I looked to some of my go-to’s. At SknDoctor, a Super Glow Facial (£220) includes a resu...
Miley Cyrus: How I lost my virginity to Liam Hemsworth at 16
American singer and songwriter, Miley Cyrus, says she lost her virginity to her ex-husband, actor Liam Hemsworth at the age of 16. The singer disclosed this while discussing her personal life in an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast with Alexandra Cooper, saying that her first sexual experience was a threesome with two girls. The singer got personal talking about heartbreak, sex, and how Liam...
PDP reconstitutes Kaduna caretaker committee
File Photo The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), acting on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC), has reconstituted the Kaduna State Caretaker Committee. The party, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Friday, said that committee would be chaired by Bashir Dutsen, while the Secretary would be A...
Cross River Basin Authority managing director suspended
The Managing Director of Cross River Basin Development Authority has been suspended from office by the board of the agency. Bassey Nkposong was suspended on Thursday after an ad-hoc committee which looked into how the agency was being run accused him of irregularities in the award of N250 million worth of contracts and other “breaches.” The committee was set up by the board in September 2019. “The...
Lagos Assembly proposes N20 million licence fee for lottery, betting operators
Pool Photo The Lagos State House of Assembly says a bill that will make operators of lottery, pools and betting in the state to pay N20 million as licence fees to the state government is underway. The Speaker of the House, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, made this known at a public hearing on the bill in Lagos on Friday. Newsmen report that the bill was entitled; “Lagos State Lotteries And Gaming Authority Bi...
The Kia Soul Handles Better Than You Think
Although its cubelike shape suggests otherwise, the Kia Soul EX has better handling than we expected, making it more fun to drive than one might assume. Credit the good handling to a properly tuned chassis and competent steering, the combination of which gives the Soul the sort of body control that encourages more precise lane changes, quicker on-ramp speeds, and the occasional jaunt down a favori...
Remember When a Car Meant Freedom?
“If the car was invented today and we said this consumer product will improve mobility and productivity, but … it will kill 33,000 people a year in America, do you think the government would approve it for sale?” Volvo senior safety engineer Thomas Broberg’s measured iconoclasm came as the automaker defended its decision to restrict the top speed of all its vehicles to 112 mph. I...
Are emoji reactions actually good?
Many of us are online a lot more than usual these days, and much more of our communication is entirely virtual as well. As we enter month six of pandemic life, that means once-small annoyances in virtual communication that you maybe used to let slide may have started to feel like all-consuming social indiscretions. The Verge newsroom devolved into a debate over such a topic after reading Angela La...
ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry). The purchase order for $224,000 describes “clearview licenses” and lists “ICE mission support dallas” as the contracting office. ICE is known to use facial ...
Criminal probe looking into misconduct allegations by former NASA official, WSJ reports
A federal criminal probe is looking into allegations of misconduct by a former NASA official who abruptly resigned from his position at the agency in May, The Wall Street Journal reports. Prosecutors are investigating if the official illegally disclosed information to Boeing about how to compete to build NASA’s new human lunar lander, the report states. The target of the probe is Doug Loverro, who...
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Apple fight is about ‘basic freedoms of all consumers and developers’
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has issued a series of public comments on his personal Twitter account regarding the legal fight the Fortnite creator initiated with Apple yesterday, following the iPhone maker’s removal of the game from the App Store. In the four-part thread, Sweeney says the fight isn’t about money. Rather, he says Epic is fighting for “the basic freedoms of all consumers and developer...
