Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

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Airbnb might be the latest company to join the streaming wars, according to a report from Reuters that says the home-sharing platform has ambitions to create a studio that develops original programming, including shows and films.

Kohl’s is officially in bed with Amazon. The American department store chain announced yesterday (April 23) that it would start accepting returns on behalf of the e-commerce giant at its 1,150-plus locations beginning in July. Kohl’s shares, which have struggled alongside other American department stores in the past several years, ticked up 12% on the news.

The number of Americans who identify as bisexual is on the rise. According to recently released data from the 2018 General Social Survey (GSS), a nationally representative survey of people in the US collected every two years, over 3% of US adults say they are bisexual (a sexual identity in which someone is attracted to people of their gender or other genders). This is up from just over 1% in 2008. (The GSS allowed individuals to self-classify as “heterosexual or straight,” “gay, lesbian, homosexual,” “bisexual,” or “don’t know.”)

The second of the last six episodes of HBO’s Game of Thrones was, for the most part, a cheery, pre-battle reunion, packed with scene-after-scene of totally delightful fan service.

In a misty pre-dawn scene in a town in America’s Deep South in the 19th century, a breathless white man offers a wedding ring to his (presumably enslaved) black love interest. “Abigail,” he says. “We can escape, to the North. There’s a place we can be together, across the border. Will you leave with me?”

At the second annual Undoing Aging conference in Berlin last month, the who’s who of aging and radical life extension—immortalists, biotech CEOs, venture capitalists, and longevity “insiders” (e.g. doctors, scientists, students, activists, and biohackers)—packed into a cramped, multi-story warehouse that hinted of a previous life as a nightclub.

Just when you thought you were done discussing Fyre Festival, bankruptcy court filings reveal that the festival’s estate—which is liable for its outstanding debts—is still looking to get paid.

Today Netflix dropped Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, a two-hour-long documentary chronicling the 15-month lead up to the superstar’s iconic 2018 Coachella set. The release came with a surprise drop on Spotify: a 40-track live album that includes music from the show, with credits for the 64 musicians that performed alongside Beyoncé last April. Also accompanying her were over 100 back-up dancers, a marching band, and the star’s husband, sister, and former Destiny’s Child bandmates.

Allergan, the pharmaceutical giant best known for its injectable wrinkle-reducer Botox (botulinum toxin) and dermal filler Juvéderm, made its latest play for the 20-something market last week with the launch of Regi, a booking site for beauty services. According to Glossy, the company is partnering with ten social media influencers for Regi’s launch, which will allow users to book appointments in New York and LA for manicure and makeup services, as well as medical-aesthetic procedures such as injectables and fillers.

After nearly two years of waiting, Game of Thrones season eight premiered last night on Amazon with an hour-long episode that was largely well-received by critics. “Winterfell” set the stage for a promising final season marked by several big moments, from Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen’s showy arrival in Winterfell, to the former finally learning he’s the rightful heir the Iron Throne.

Decorated in shades of jade, with bamboo rattan lamps, a restaurant called Lucky Lee’s opened this week just outside of Manhattan’s ritzy Gramercy neighborhood. The fast-casual eatery, which serves “feel-great food inspired by American-Chinese Cuisine,” per its Instagram, was launched by Arielle Haspel, a New York-based health coach and wellness blogger.

Macy’s is trying really hard to be Instagram-friendly. Today (April 11) the struggling department store giant rolled out its in-house concept store, “Story,” in 36 locations across the US. Most of the shops will be at least 1,500 sq ft (140 sq meters), with its Manhattan flagship location spanning a whopping 7,500 sq ft.

The duke of Sussex, AKA Prince Harry, is teaming up with American royalty Oprah Winfrey to work on a series for Apple focused on mental health.

Like many in Silicon Valley’s elite, Jack Dorsey has adopted some diet, exercise, and lifestyle routines that seem rather extreme, or even bizarre. The CEO and co-founder of both Twitter and Square recently shared his full lifestyle routine on author Ben Greenfield’s podcast, and in addition to two hours a day of meditation and kicking off his day with an ice bath, he described his eating habits in some detail. He eats only one meal a day on weekdays, and he told Greenfield he’s done several “extended fasts” where he only drinks water on the weekends:

The trailer for Beyoncé’s Netflix documentary, Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, features a voiceover from another superstar: the late American poet Maya Angelou.

While humans have been on a quest to cheat death for millennia, the new business of immortality is just now heating up. With Silicon Valley investing in everything from longevity research to experimental startups, keeping up-to-date—not to mention separating fact from fiction—can be tough. Here are a few of our recommended resources to help you get informed and stay abreast of new developments.

Overlooking Lake Raleigh on North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) campus is a gleaming, colossal structure. It’s a library, but quite unlike any you’ve probably ever seen before. Designed by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta (best known for its work on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt) the $150 million James B. Hunt Jr. Library is an architectural marvel. It has the sleek look of an Apple store and is shaped a bit like an enormous, platinum stapler; its facade, shimmering in the late July sunshine, appears to be threaded together, a look inspired by a robust history of textile technology on campus. It stands out keenly against the neo-Georgian red brick buildings that make up most of the University’s Centennial Campus, but would be just as eye-catching in another setting.

Life is short, the saying goes—and that was certainly true for the bulk of human history, during which global life expectancy hovered around 29 years. But over the past few centuries, the human lifespan has expanded by leaps and bounds. The life expectancy for a baby born in 2016 is 72 years, according to the World Health Organization.

Death is inevitable. At the same time, it’s impossible for any of us to quite picture ourselves snuffing it.

In 1967, the first successful cryonic preservation was performed on a 73-year-old psychologist named James Bedford. Today, his body remains frozen at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, which performed its 166th cryonic procedure on March 01, 2019. As of this month, over 1,200 people are set to be preserved by the world’s leading cryonic preservation company. None of them knows for sure if we’ll ever have a way to reanimate them.

People have been trying to live forever for … basically forever. But cheating death has always been a particular obsession for the rich. Ancient Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang took mercury pills in his quest for immortality during the third century BCE (whoops), while Egyptian pharaohs had their remains mummified to prepare for the afterlife—only to have powders made from their crushed-up bones consumed by the likes of European royalty seeking health remedies in the 16th and 17th centuries. In more recent years, elites have experimented with young blood transfusions and syringes filled with the cells of fetal lambs, which they’ve had injected into their buttocks.

In the latest episode of Netflix’s Patriot Act, host Hasan Minhaj breaks down the surprising connection between music streaming, hip hop, and oppressive regimes across the globe:

Marvel and Disney’s first joint superhero pic, Captain Marvel, made a record-breaking box office debut after its release Friday (March 8). So far it’s notched $455 million in worldwide ticket sales and $153 million in US sales, according to the Hollywood Reporter. That makes it the largest-ever global box office debut for a female-fronted film, edging out Beauty and the Beast’s $357 million debut in 2017, and the $103 million grossed by DC’s Wonder Woman the same year.