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Kid Cudi is a big fan of Sheryl Lee Ralph.Cudder was among the many celebrities who congratulated Ralph on her historic victory at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. The 65-year-old actress won Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Barbara Howard in the ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary. It marked the second time a Black actress won the category, following Jackée Harry’s 1987 win for 227.Ralph’s son, Etienne Maurice, posted a TikTok video in which he learned Cudder and sent his mom a bouquet of flowers along with…

MIT has contributed to the success of the ignition program at the National Ignition Facilty for more than a decade by providing and using a dozen diagnostics, implemented by MIT PhD students and staff, which have been critical for assessing the performance of an implosion, like the one pictured. Credit: Image courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>MIT</div><div…

South Korea’s port city of Busan is among the several other venues hoping to win the bid to host the World Expo 2030. As the leader of the country’s biggest conglomerate, Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong is undertaking visits to several countries in order to win support for Busan’s bid. Lee Jae-yong has most recently visited Panama, a country that shares unique historic ties with the conglomerate. Samsung would hope that these ties can be leveraged to win support for Busan’s Word Expo 2030 ambitions. Panama was the first…

From winning her second Emmy for Euphoria on Monday to immediately getting back to work on Dune 2, Zendaya has had a busy couple of days. As one of many repeat Emmy winners this year, Zendaya’s win was particularly historic, as she is now the youngest two-time winner. Which is very much a cause for celebration and the actress did just that with her mom in person and texted her boyfriend Tom Holland about it.    However, the celebration couldn’t last too long, because the actress had to travel back to set to continue…

Cars stuck in flooding during historic cloudburst over Copenhagen, Denmark on July 2, 2011. Credit: Lisa Risager from Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to clearly tie increased temperatures to the historic cloudburst over Copenhagen in…

Life expectancy for Americans has suffered a historic drop in the last couple of years, according to new estimates from the CDC and a June preprint study. While every demographic’s life expectancy dropped in 2020 and 2021, Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous communities were hit the hardest. Life expectancy at birth — or how long a person is expected to live if nothing in the world changes — is usually calculated by using death rate data within each age group. So while life expectancy isn’t a prediction of how long a baby…

FRANKFURT—The European Central Bank said it would raise its key interest rate by 0.75 percentage point, the biggest increase since the early days of Europe’s monetary union, moving aggressively to combat record inflation even as an energy crisis puts Europe on the brink of recession. The bank said in a statement that it would increase its key rate to 0.75% from zero—its second hike this year following a 50-basis-point rise in July—and signaled that further rises were likely this year.…

NASA’s Artemis missions will kick off a new era of space exploration. The space agency is set to launch the first of these missions, Artemis I, within the next few weeks. Like all of its launches, space lovers will be able to tune in and watch the Artemis I launch live as it happens. NASA originally planned to complete the debut launch of its Space Launch System on Monday, August 19. However, the launch was grounded due to trouble with one of the engines. However, NASA is still shooting to launch the rocket…

A major iPad factory in China has begun operating at normal capacity again after a historic heat wave brought production to a halt. As reported by Nikkei, Taiwanese iPhone assembler Foxconn restarted production at its Chengdu plant on Thursday, following a heat wave that was causing power supply issues. "The Chengdu plant of Foxconn, which assembles iPads for Apple, began to operate at normal capacity again on Thursday," the report states. According to Nikkei, Foxconn is being supplied power from the authorities as a…

NASA is all set to launch the Space Launch System (SLS), its most powerful rocket ever, for its Artemis I lunar mission. Decades after the space agency completed its Apollo missions, NASA is preparing to send astronauts back to the surface of the Moon. The super heavy-lift launch vehicle will carry the Orion spacecraft and is scheduled to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida later today. According to the US space agency, Artemis I is the first in a series of complex missions that will pave way for human…