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The chief executive of the cryptocurrency company Sam Bankman-Fried founded attacked the onetime crypto power player on Wednesday in a letter to a federal judge scheduled to sentence him next week, saying his claim that customers, lenders, and investors were not harmed was callously false and he was living a “life of delusion.”FTX Trading Limited CEO John J. Ray III told Judge Lewis A. Kaplan that Bankman-Fried’s victims have suffered and continue to suffer from his crimes.“Mr. Bankman-Fried continues to live a life of…

Nika King joked about struggling to pay rent amidst the lengthy Euphoria hiatus and took a playful and seemingly heartfelt jab at Zendaya’s absence.Nika, who plays Leslie Bennet, Zendaya’s on-screen mother on Euphoria, reportedly said she hasn’t been able to pay her rent amidst the stop-and-go production schedule for the series.Earlier this week, the mom to “Rue Bennet” posted a clip showing her doing some standup comedy, where she delivered a joke to a live audience that reflected her current real-life struggles.The…

The appropriateness of a little girl’s dress became the center of a heated debate as a result of a mom’s viral video. The controversial clip sparked a conversation on whether some designs are too revealing for young children.Meghan Mayer, a teacher from Detroit, Michigan, USA, asked her 1.3 million TikTok followers if she was overreacting after finding a collection of summer dresses in the girl’s section of Target that feature cutouts at the hips.The dresses were part of the Girls’ Smocked Bodice Cut Out Chiffon Dress…

Kanye West has once again turned the digital corridors of Instagram into his personal megaphone to send messages to none other than his ex-wife and the mother of his four children, Kim Kardashian.The rapper seemed to forsake the need for privacy, allowing millions of eyes to pry into their family matters, by sharing an Instagram post demanding that Kim take their children out of the current ‘fake school’ they attend.While they were together, Kim and Kanye became parents to four children: North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm.…

This adorable little Italian farm robot packs a radioactive punch — the ICARO X4 helps the country’s storied vineyards to combat harmful fungi and mildew by blasting it with UV-C radiation. Developed by Italian equipment manufacturer Maschio Gaspardo, the ICARO X4 farm robot was designed to navigate around Italy’s famous vineyards autonomously while also determining the best time to treat the crops to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria based on humidity and temperature data it gathers with its…

Ozzy Osbourne blasted Kanye West on social media on Friday, claiming the rapper used a recording of a Black Sabbath song without Osbourne’s permission and against his will. “Kanye West asked permission to sample a section of a 1983 live performance of ‘War Pig’ from the Us Festival without vocals & was refused permission because he is an antisemite and has caused untold heartache to many,” the singer wrote in capital letters. “He went ahead and used the sample anyway at his album listening party last night. I…

House Republicans released articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday, prompting the federal government to respond in a scathing memo calling the impeachment effort “unconstitutional evidence free.” In addition to accusing Mayorkas of not following immigration laws, the GOP’s articles claim Mayorkas “terminated contracts” to build Donald Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Republican House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green said in a statement on Sunday, “These…

Donald Trump frequently enrages musicians by using their songs without permission during his political rallies. Most recently, he has upset Johnny Marr after footage of the former president playing the Smiths‘ 1982 single “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” at a Trump rally in South Dakota last year emerged online. Yesterday, an X user posted a clip of the song being played to the crowd at a rally in September, noting, “You actually hear the Smiths more often than you’d think at 2024 Trump rallies.”…

The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has signalled that he will move to stop Donald Trump’s presidential campaign from using the band’s music at his rallies.Marr responded on X after a user shared footage of a Trump rally in South Dakota in 2023 in which the Smiths song Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want can be heard playing as the crowd waits for the former president to come on stage.“Ahh…right…OK,” Marr wrote in reply to the video. “I never in a million years would’ve thought this could come to pass. Consider…

One of the missing pieces of puzzle for VR is scent, but at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, Japanese startup Aromajoin showed off a wearable that may be up to the task. Simply dubbed Aroma Shooter Wearable, this neckband houses six replaceable scent cartridges, and it's controlled by a mobile device or PC over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or USB. The product is still in its early days, and the Kyoto-based company is targeting developers and business clients, who can pick from a library of "hundreds" of scents — or even custom scents from,…