Elon Musk’s girlfriend Grimes said she’s seven months pregnant in an Instagram post promoting a magazine interview. She spoke to The Face, which she told that the baby has been exposed to lots of techno music while growing. Grimes also spoke about the constant abuse she gets on social media, which she likened to “an emotionally abusive relationship.” Grimes first revealed she was pregnant on January 24. Since then she has made several Instagram posts detailing her experience of pregnancy. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Grimes, Elon Musk’s girlfriend, said Thursday that she is seven months pregnant, and that her baby is listening to plenty of techno music… Read More
Continue ReadingApple may let people pick alternative default apps on the iPhone, marking a radical change of philosophy
Apple is reportedly considering giving iPhone users a degree of flexibility over their default apps Bloomberg reported that iPhone users could potentially pick alternatives to the Safari mobile browser and Mail email app as their default services. It would be a radical change for a company that has always tightly controlled the iPhone experience. Currently, Apple treats its own apps as the default in a number of ways: for example, when someone opens a web link sent to them on an iPhone, it automatically opens in Safari, Apple’s proprietary web browser. Business Insider has approached Apple for comment. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Apple is considering make a… Read More
Continue ReadingRobyn Brown to Christine Brown: Eff Kody! You’re So Brave!
They say that misery loves company. For the Sister Wives, however, perhaps this expression ought to be tweaked a little bit and perhaps it instead ought to read as follows: Miserable spouses of Kody Brown love to come together against that selfish, sexist pig. In the wake of Janelle Brown recently admitting that her and her fellow Sister Wives aren’t very close, Robyn Brown has come out and offered up some heartfelt praise for Christine Brown. And she’s seemingly done so in defiance of that jerk, Kody. Robyn commended Christine while live-tweeting this past Sunday’s episode of the popular TLC series. She did so acknowledging Christine’s courage as Kody and… Read More
Continue ReadingWhy John McDonnell’s comparison of Julian Assange to Dreyfus is absurd and offensive
There are no parallels between the WikiLeaks founder and a man persecuted by anti-Semites. The Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers. Anti-Semitism did not start with Hitler. This most pernicious hatred has reared its head time and time again throughout history, sometimes changing shape, but never really going away. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, one way that this hatred manifested itself was in what is now known as the Dreyfus Affair. Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was falsely accused of passing military secrets to Germany. He was arrested, found guilty of treason, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island, a… Read More
Continue ReadingSouth Korea accepted that its efforts to stop the coronavirus infecting the country failed, and says it’s pivoting to containment
With coronavirus cases soaring, the government in South Korea said Friday that it has failed to keep the virus out of the country, and must now focus on containment. The number of reported cases in the country tripled in the past three days to 156. It is the most-infected place outside China. The country has urged people in a city of 2.5 million people to stay in their homes and banned some public gatherings. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. South Korea on Friday accepted that its efforts to stop the deadly coronavirus from taking hold in the country had failed, and said it would switch its strategy to… Read More
Continue ReadingSatoshi Nakaboto: ‘Binance CEO says Bitcoin halving will raise its price’
Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Rousseau used to say: Live, laugh, love! Bitcoin price We closed the day, February 20 2020, at a price of $9,608. That’s a minor 0.21 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$20.85. It was the lowest closing price in fifteen days. We’re still 52 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day at… This story continues at The Next Web Or just read… Read More
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