If you’re hosting a barn wedding or just want to introduce a little outdoorsy flair, have your rehearsal dinner lean into a Western aesthetic. “This theme works just as beautifully in an adobe courtyard in New Mexico or Santa Barbara as it does in a field in Idaho or traditional Midwestern barn,” shares Blasena. “Décor-wise, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The head of Reform’s Elon Musk-inspired cost-cutting drive at Kent county council has stood down after he told the FT that it had not made significant cuts, undermining claims by senior party figures of vast … Read more
The Space Launch System rocket program is now a decade and a half old, and it continues to be dominated by two unfortunate traits: It is expensive, and it is slow. The massive rocket and its convoluted ground systems, so necessary to baby and cajole the booster’s prickly hydrogen propellant on board, have cost US … Read more
On Wednesday, Spotify announced a few new lyrics features aiming to make it easier to understand and access song lyrics, including translations, previews, and offline lyrics. Lyric translations were originally introduced in 2022, but have only been available in specific markets so far. Now, they’re rolling out worldwide to both free and premium Spotify users, … Read more
Latin American digital asset platform Mercado Bitcoin said that it had deployed more than $20 million of tokenized private credit on Bitcoin sidechain Rootstock, deepening its push into real-world assets (RWAs) and targeting $100 million in issuances by April. According to a release shared with Cointelegraph, several offerings had already reached target capacity since going … Read more
There’s something a little eerie about the way the band Witch Post came together. A few years back, Scottish singer-songwriter Dylan Fraser found himself traveling regularly from Edinburgh to London, and would use the five-hour train journey to listen to new music; after stumbling upon Alaska Reid’s 2020 EP Big Bunny, and then covering one … Read more
Amazon has announced that its generative AI-powered digital assistant Alexa Plus is now available to all Prime members in the US via any Alexa-enabled device, Alexa.com, and the Alexa mobile app. If you don’t have Prime, you can access the assistant on a new free tier on the web and app, or pay $20 a … Read more
HBO You probably know Milana Vayntrub as the sweet and wholesome face of AT&T, Lily Adams, but some of her other TV roles have been much more evil. In fact, she played a Satanist on an HBO sitcom co-created by Mike Judge — “Silicon Valley.” Vayntrub showed … Read more
Uber is promoting Balaji Krishnamurthy, its VP of strategic finance and investor relations, to be its CFO, replacing its current finance chief Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah. Krishnamurthy has been at Uber for over six years, spending most of his tenure in the company in its investor relations division. He often posts about the company’s autonomous ride-hailing efforts, … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) traders see its ultimate support trendline coming into play as part of a new macro BTC price bottom. Key points: Bitcoin is nearing a long-term trendline retest for the first time since late 2023. Weekly moving averages are on the radar as a BTC price safety net should the market fall again. Market … Read more