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Bono suggested the idea of giving away the album for free in 2014 to Tim Cook.Image: Emmanuel Dunand (Getty Images)Before you could stream your favorite album at will on the likes of Spotify or Apple Music, there was iTunes. In an experimental release strategy, U2's Songs of Innocence was uploaded to the iTunes libraries of users across the world, resulting in a wave of backlash. Eight years later, the band’s frontman Bono has finally apologized for the havoc his project wreaked.01:08Ernie Hudson | First FandomsFriday…

Heaviside was Kitty Hawk’s last eVTOL in development. | Image: Kitty Hawk Kitty Hawk, the ambitious “flying car” startup funded by Google co-founder Larry Page, is winding down, which the company confirmed in a brief post on LinkedIn earlier today. According to a report from Insider, sources inside the company said Kitty Hawk had already shut down work on the 100-mile-capable Heaviside vehicle. Insider also reports that Page had become increasingly hands-off from the company but said he was more…

Kittyhawk, a startup backed by Google co-founder Larry Page that was working on developing air taxis, said it is winding down its business. “We’re still working on the details of what’s next,” the company said Wednesday in a two-sentence post on LinkedIn. The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Google didn’t immediately respond for a request for comment on behalf of Mr. Page, who sits on the board of Google’s parent company…

After more than a decade of trying to make flying cars a reality, Kitty Hawk is shutting down. “We’re still working on the details of what’s next,” the Larry Page-backed startup posted to LinkedIn . Before today’s announcement, the last time we heard from Kitty Hawk was in the spring of 2021 when it came out the company had with engineer Damon Vander Lind following “months” of infighting with Page and CEO Sebastian Thrun. Almost exactly a year earlier, the company and laid off most of the 70-person team that had worked…

There have been a string of breakthroughs this summer for house music’s visibility – if not always its profitability – thanks to Beyoncé and Drake. But away from the spotlight, the aftershocks of a different breakthrough, in an Illinois court, may soon reverberate far beyond debates over superstar dalliances with the genre. After a long, hard-fought legal battle, the house music originators Larry Heard and Robert Owens have won the right to reclaim their music as their own.“It felt beautiful, and it gives me peace knowing…

Fresh off teaming up with Jay Worthy for their collaborative project 2 P’z in a Pod, Larry June returns with his latest solo offering Spaceships on the Blade.The 19-track drop includes guest appearances from 2 Chainz (“Still Boomin”), Babyface Ray (“Extra of Um”), Currensy (“5.0 Chronicles”), Syd (“For Tonight”), Wallo267 (“Tools of the Game”), and Duckworth (“Brand New Machinery”), while featuring production from the Alchemist, Jake One, Turbo, Chuck Inglish of the Cool Kids, and more.Spaceships on the Blade is the…

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosGet a glimpse at the return of Epix’s War of the Worlds. David Dastmalchian gets into exorcisms in his latest role. Plus, what’s coming on Archer and American Horror Stories. To me, my spoilers!The Pope’s ExorcistAccording to Deadline, Franco Nero has been cast as the pope in The Pope’s Exorcist, the upcoming horror film starring Russell Crowe as Father Gabriele Amorth from Overlord directorJulius Avery. Laurel Marsden (Ms. Marvel), Cornell S. John and newcomer Peter DeSouza-Feighoney have…

You were one of those people with four doses.That’s right, and I was also able to get a prophylactic monoclonal antibody. That’s probably why I think I got a relatively mild disease. But it persisted for 17 days, and I had to have two courses of Paxlovid.By the way, I don't think we should call this a rebound. A better way to say it is that we don’t have the dosing schedule correct. It’s possible that Paxlovid probably requires a course of seven or 10 days.So if I get Covid, I can ask my doctor to give me seven or 10…

Second, the longer this virus continues, the more variants we’re going to have. We don’t know exactly what forms a variant, but for sure one factor is immunocompromised people who have the virus puttering around longer in their system—not for 17 days like me, but for months. The body can’t clear the virus completely. You’ve created ideal circumstances for reassortment, recombination.Another issue is that we don’t have a good handle on numbers because we never got testing, right?What if I said to you that antigens, those…

Dead plum trees that have been removed from the ground due to the lack of water for irrigation in the drought-affected town of Monson, California in June 2015.Photo: AFP PHOTO/ MARK RALSTON (Getty Images)As record-breaking temperatures have pummeled much of the country this summer, another heat-related menace is causing trouble: flash droughts.Much like a regular drought, a flash drought is caused by low precipitation, but it strikesan area so much faster. Brad Pugh, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s…