Rings

Luxury precious rings in a row on display in a jewelry store at a high-end shopping mall.Craig Hastings | Moment | Getty ImagesRoses are red, violets are blue, gemstones are hot and prices are too.Valentine's Day has long been one of the most popular days of the year for jewelry and engagements. U.S. consumers will spend a record $6.4 billion on jewelry around Valentine's Day this year, representing 10% of the total annual spend, according to Ankur Daga, founder and CEO of fine jewelry e-commerce company Angara.This year,…

The secret lives of minor planets may be even more complex and fascinating than we thought.Scientists have discovered that a pair of gossamer rings circling an asteroid-like chunk of rock in the cold reaches of space out past Jupiter are likely being shepherded by a tiny, unseen moonlet.The rock is named Chariklo, a type of minor planet known as a centaur – an asteroid-like body that orbits the Sun in the space between Jupiter and Neptune (rather than between Jupiter and Mars, where the asteroid belt spans).Chariklo,…

Amazon's Ring is raising the price of its cheapest Basic subscription, following similar bumps by Google and others, the company said in a FAQ seen by The Verge. As of March 11, it's going from $4 to $5 per month (or $40 to $50 dollars a year), an increase of 25 percent.The last time Ring raised its Basic plan rate in June of 2022 (from $3 to $4 per month), it also added a few features like additional cloud storage, larger bulk videos downloads and the ability to receive exclusive discounts on future Ring product. This…

It features radar technology to deliver more accurate outdoor motion alerts, reducing false alerts and potentially preserving battery life, among other advanced features. The Ring Battery Doorbell Pro has radar-powered 3D Motion Detection, with refined motion alerts delivered in video clips at 1536p resolution. Users can also enjoy features like Bird's Eve View and Bird's Eye Zones, which let owners use an aerial perspective to delineate areas to surveil for motion. Also: 3 million smart toothbrushes were just used in…

The Story Behind Johnny Depp’s “Chick’s Ring” ( Photo Credit – Instagram; Wikimedia ) Johnny Depp was madly in love with Amber Heard. And there’s no doubt he’d treat her like a princess. At least, that’s what we know of their time before marriage. He’s splurged a significant amount of his fortune on his wife via gifts, including two engagement rings. One of them was a six-figure solitaire. Scroll below for all the unknown details! It is unfortunate how Johnny and…

What’s the best recipe for making an orc? A little bit of elf? A heavy dose of dark magic? The repulsive creatures made famous by J.R.R Tolkien very well might make you think there’s a lot of mud involved, too. But the orcs of J.R.R Tolkien’s epic Middle-earth saga, The Lord of the Rings, aren’t stirred together in a cauldron or grown from the earth. They’re as flesh and blood as the other races of Middle-earth they’ve warred against for thousands of years. That said, generations of corruption and underground darkness…

Archaeologists discovered human remains ceremonially adorned with buckets on their feet and rings around their necks in a 1,000-year-old cemetery, reports say.Archaeologists discovered the mass grave holding over 107 skeletons in what is believed to have been a pagan-era cemetery near Kyiv, Ukraine.The mysterious burial site provided a glimpse into the Dark Ages, the 1,000 years of European history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Italian Renaissance.Researchers unearthed axes, swords,…

Transnational security investigator Abdelkader Abderrahmane set out from the Moroccan city of Kenitra with two research assistants to inspect sand-mining sites on the Atlantic Ocean coast. They drove across the dry, flat terrain for six kilometers, the last stretch on a rutted dirt road that had them crawling in low gear, windows closed against the hot dust. The beach dunes where they were headed lay beyond a rise. As they approached, a man wearing a gendarme cap suddenly appeared to their right, speeding toward them on…

On a pine farm north of the tiny town of Tamarack, Minnesota, Talon Metals has uncovered one of America’s densest nickel deposits—and now it wants to begin tunneling deep into the rock to extract hundreds of thousands of metric tons of mineral-rich ore a year.If regulators approve the mine, it could mark the starting point in what this mining exploration company claims would become the country’s first complete domestic nickel supply chain, running from the bedrock beneath the Minnesota earth to the batteries in electric…

Things are starting to pick up for the Switch eShop, as Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and Another Code: Recollection are both launching on the same day. Turnip Boy Robs a Bank is another pretty fun addition, which we have a review for if you’re interested. Although we haven’t gotten any first-party heavy-hitters yet, it’s just January, and the eShop has a decent selection of both old and new games to peruse (that includes the instant drop of two Golden Sun games!). I have a good feeling about 2024! Everything out…