For Algorithmic Perfection, All You Need Is Tove Styrke and Ritual’s New Single
@blakexcharles/Tove Styrke/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: “Love Me Back” by Ritual and Tove Styrke (Island Records, 2019) Why we’re into it: This classic electronic-pop track is a master class in contrasting melancholy lyrics with upbeat production. Look, this song may sound exactly like “Closer” 2.0 in the way that it…
Trump Caves, Agrees to Short-Term Spending Bill to End Longest Shutdown in US History
Michael Candelori/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he has agreed to a short-term spending bill that would temporarily reopen the government and end the longest government shutdown in US history. BREAKING: Pres. Trump: “I am very proud to announce today that we have reached…
Mueller Indicts Trump Pal Roger Stone
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Roger Mueller has indicted yet another Trump confidant: Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, was arrested Friday by the FBI in Florida on charges that he lied and tried to tamper with a witness to hide…
Bloomberg: It Costs $4,000 to Mine a Bitcoin Worth $3,600
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bloomberg provides the latest on Bitcoin: The production-weighted cash cost to create one Bitcoin averaged around $4,060 globally in the fourth quarter, according to analysts with JPMorgan Chase & Co. With Bitcoin itself currently trading below $3,600, that doesn’t look like such a good deal.…
Researchers Find that E-Scooters Are a Fun, Easy Way to Go to the ER
picture alliance/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In September 2017, Tarak Trivedi, an emergency room doctor, and Catherine Lerer, a personal injury attorney, started seeing electric scooters everywhere. Santa Monica, California, where they live, was the first city where the scooter company Bird rolled out its rechargeable two-wheelers, which…
Study: Gunshot Wounds Cost Us Nearly $1 Billion in Hospital Bills Every Year
ugurhan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Researchers have long known that the impacts of gun violence ripple out far beyond victims and their families. But the price we pay as a country can be hard to measure, because data is hard to come by. (And the National Rifle Association is…