The Damned: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know about the horror movieFILE – Author Percival Everett attends the 75th National Book Awards ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File) FILE – Taylor Swift performs during “The Eras Tour” on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File) FILE – Riley Keough, left, and her mother Lisa Marie Presley arrive at the 24th annual ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards on Oct. 16, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) FILE – First lady Melania Trump stands next to the 2020 Official White House Christmas tree as it is presented on the North Portico of the White House, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) FILE – This cover image released by FSG shows “Intermezzo” by Sally Rooney. (FSG via AP, File) FILE – This cover image released by Random House shows “From Here to the Great Unknown” by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough. (Random House via AP, File) FILE – This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows “War” by Bob Woodward. (Simon & Schuster via AP, File) FILE – This cover image released by Dey Street Books shows “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” releasing on Nov. 19. (Dey Street Books via AP, File) FILE – This cover image released by Random House shows “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” by Salman Rushdie. The book, about the attempt on his life that left him blind in his right eye, will be published April 16, 2024. Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing he thought might end his life is both explicit in the violence Rushdie sustains and heroic in the will to live that Rushdie retains. (Random House via AP, File) FILE – Author Percival Everett attends the 75th National Book Awards ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File) Even through a year of nonstop news about elections, climate change, protests and the price of eggs, there was still time to read books.
PC Wizard relocates, opens shop on Main StreetKitchen appliances startup Beyond Appliances has raised $2 million in a funding round led by early-stage venture fund Fireside Ventures, which focuses on consumer brands. The round also saw participation from Dharana Capital and angel investors like Livspace cofounders Saurabh Jain and Ramakant Sharma, Design Cafe founder Shezan Bhojani, and former chief executive of TTK Prestige Chandru Kalro. The funds will be used for research and development (R&D) and to accelerate its manufacturing capabilities. “Technology has transformed living rooms, automobiles, and health care, but it hasn’t significantly impacted home kitchens. For a long time, we wanted to innovate in that space. So, with Byondnxt (parent company), we decided to focus on making home kitchens more attractive and better,” cofounder and chief executive Eshwar K Vikas told ET in an interaction. Founded in 2024 by Vikas and Rakesh Patil, the Bengaluru-based startup currently offers two products that are manufactured in India. The first is a smart stove equipped with hobs that feature digital timers and whistle counters. The second is a chimney with an integrated Android system, allowing users to stream OTT content, play music, set reminders, and create grocery lists through apps like Zepto and Blinkit. 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We will eventually build a few more technologies for the kitchen, but the gas stove and chimney markets are very under-penetrated today. It's growing very fast. So, I think these two are the products we want to lead with," he said. The company plans to introduce four to five additional stock-keeping units (SKUs) within this fiscal year. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories The company's products are currently available on ecommerce platforms such as Amazon and Flipkart, as well as in select retail stores across Bengaluru. According to Vikas, 60-70% of its sales come from tier II and tier III cities. Earlier food and grocery delivery company Zomato acquired an 8% equity stake in Byondnxt for Rs 6,000. Commenting on the investment, Shuchi Pandya, principal, Fireside Ventures, said, “The Indian kitchen appliances market is witnessing a significant shift towards smart, connected solutions. Beyond Appliances' unique approach to combining practical functionality with advanced technology positions them perfectly to capture this evolving consumer demand.”
The gunman who stalked and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fled New York City by bus, police officials told CNN on Friday. Video of the suspected shooter leaving the scene of the shooting Wednesday showed him riding a bicycle to Central Park and later taking a taxi cab to a bus depot, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told CNN. Here's the latest: The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer may have fled the city on a bus, New York City police officials told CNN on Friday. Video of the suspected shooter leaving the scene of the shooting Wednesday showed him riding a bicycle to Central Park and later taking a taxi cab to a bus depot, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told CNN. “We have reason to believe that the person in question has left New York City,” Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer made sure to wear a mask during the shooting yet left a trail of evidence in view of the nation’s biggest city and its network of security cameras that have aided authorities piecing together his movements and his identity. A law enforcement official said Friday that new surveillance footage shows the suspect riding the subway and visiting establishments in Manhattan and provided more clues about his actions in the days before he ambushed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson . The gunman’s whereabouts and identity remain unknown Friday, as did the reason for Wednesday’s killing. New York City police say evidence firmly points to it being a targeted attack . ▶ Read more about the search for the gunman In many companies, investor meetings like the one UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was walking to when he was fatally shot are viewed as very risky because details on the location and who will be speaking are highly publicized. “It gives people an opportunity to arrive well in advance and take a look at the room, take a look at how people would probably come and go out of a location,” said Dave Komendat, president of DSKomendat Risk Management Services, which is based in the greater Seattle area. Some firms respond by beefing up security. For example, tech companies routinely require everyone attending a major event, such as Apple’s annual unveiling of the next iPhone or a shareholder meeting, to go through airport-style security checkpoints before entering. Others forgo in-person meetings with shareholders. ▶ Read more about how companies protect their leaders Those images include New York’s subway system, a law enforcement official said. In establishments where the person was captured on camera, he always appeared to pay with cash, the official said. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. — Mike Balsamo Medica, a Minnesota-based nonprofit health care firm that serves 1.5 million customers in 12 states, said it’s temporarily closing all six locations. The firm has offices in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and North Dakota, and employs about 3,000 people. Employees will work from home, Medica spokesman Greg Bury said in an email Friday. “The safety of Medica employees is our top priority and we have increased security both for all of our employees,” a statement from Medica said. “Although we have received no specific threats related to our campuses, our office buildings will be temporarily closed out of an abundance of caution.” Bury also said biographical information on the company’s executives was taken down from its website as a precaution. The insurer cited the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in its announcement about the Dec. 12 event. “All of us at Centene are deeply saddened by Brian Thompson’s death and want to express our support for all of those affected. Health insurance is a big industry and a small community; many members of the CenTeam crossed paths with Brian during their careers,” Centene CEO Sarah M. London said in a news release. “He was a person with a deep sense of empathy and clear passion for improving access to care. Our hearts are with his family and his colleagues during this difficult time.” Centene Corp. has grown in recent years to become the largest insurer in Medicaid, the state- and federally funded program that covers care for people with low incomes. Insurers manage Medicaid coverage for states, and Centene has more than 13 million people enrolled in that coverage. The insurance company also said it’s focused on ensuring the safety of employees and assisting investigators. “While our hearts are broken, we have been touched by the huge outpouring of kindness and support in the hours since this horrific crime took place,” the company said. But he said Friday that he’s confident police will arrest the shooter. “We are on the right road to apprehend him and bring him to justice,” Adams said on TV station WPIX. Later, it removed their names and biographies entirely. Police and federal agents have been collecting information from Greyhound in an attempt to identify the suspect and are working to determine whether he purchased the ticket to New York in late November, a law enforcement official said. Investigators were also trying to obtain additional information from a cellphone recovered from a pedestrian plaza through which the shooter fled. The fatal shooting of Brian Thompson while walking alone on a New York City sidewalk has put a spotlight on the widely varied approaches companies take to protect their leaders against threats. Experts say today’s political, economic and technological climate is only going to make the job of evaluating threats against executives and taking action to protect them even more difficult, experts say. Some organizations have a protective intelligence group that uses digital tools such as machine learning or artificial intelligence to comb through online comments to detect threats not only on social media platforms such as X but also on the dark web, says Komendat. They look for what’s being said about the company, its employees and its leadership to uncover risks. ▶ Read more about the steps companies take to protect their leadership Police said Thursday they found a water bottle and protein bar wrapper from a trash can near the scene of the ambush and think the suspect bought them from a Starbucks minutes before the shooting. The items were being tested by the city’s medical examiner.
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Amazon India is racing to launch its quick commerce delivery service, codenamed Tez, by late December or early next year as it looks to join the booming sector that notched up gross sales of about $5.5-6 billion this month led by Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart, multiple people aware of the details told ET. Earlier, the US giant was aiming to roll out the service in the first quarter of 2025 but is now keen to accelerate the process, they added. More so, as it is the only large ecommerce firm without a presence in what is India’s fastest growing online business. The launch of Tez in India—which is only a working title for the proposed business—will mark Amazon’s first foray into the quick commerce business globally. According to people briefed on the plans, the matter will be discussed in the next monthly review slated for the first week of December—ahead of its annual Smbhav event. 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Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories The ecommerce firm is also making fresh hires for the high-priority project in addition to having a core team of employees working on it. Amazon’s India grocery and essentials team described the project as a ‘greenfield, grounds-up initiative for an upcoming and fast-growing ecommerce space in India’, according to a job post. The final name for the quick commerce service is yet to be decided, sources added. ET first reported about Amazon’s plans on a quick commerce offering in its edition of August 28. “They (Amazon) want to launch it sooner than the end of first quarter in India. Quick commerce is where all the action is if you are a meaningful consumer internet platform. They are also following the same model as others—setting up dark stores, figuring out the details of stock-keeping units (SKUs) and categories, and putting logistics infrastructure in place,” another person aware of the matter said. The company is expected to start the service with groceries and daily essentials. An email sent to Amazon India did not elicit any response till press time Sunday. While Amazon India has its own delivery network in India, it has also engaged with other logistics players for quick delivery services. ETtech Quick moves Flipkart—Amazon’s arch-rival in India—launched its quick service, Minutes , before the start of this year’s festive season sales during September-October and has since scaled the service in major cities. Also in the fray is Tata-owned BigBasket, which has made a shift to the quick model, and has clocked over Rs 900 crore in gross sales last month, people in the know said. Meanwhile, Tata Digital—which runs Tata Neu—has also rolled out its own quick commerce service Neu Flash , which was first reported by ET on October 28. Amazon had discussed a potential deal with Swiggy Instamart before the food delivery company listed on the bourses in early November. The rush of capital into the quick commerce sector has only added to all the platforms scaling their operations aggressively. Last week, Zepto raised another $350 million , adding to its over $1 billion cash-pile while Zomato , parent of Blinkit, has also secured shareholder nod to raise another $1 billion through QIP. “We expect the quick commerce market size to overtake that of food delivery in 2026 in terms of gross order value (GOV). Given a larger addressable market, despite high competition, we see scope for each player to grow materially over the next 3-5 years. The challenge of growth and market share loss comes when the overall market itself has matured,” Morgan Stanley said in a note earlier this month on quick commerce and Zomato-Blinkit. “Overall download share of quick commerce apps has increased in the last 6 and 12 months relative to ecommerce apps, as per third party data,” it said. The report estimated a bear and bull case for the quick commerce market at $25 billion and $55 billion, respectively, by 2030. The projections indicate a similar rise in key metrics like households using ultra-fast delivery, monthly transacting users and their frequency of quick orders. Quick commerce is expected to be just under $7 billion in size for 2024. “In our assumptions, we have assumed that high frequency or high value users would increase from one third to almost half of the total platform and they would account for almost 75-80% of the total value of the business by 2030,” the Morgan Stanley note added on its outlook for 10-30 minute delivery services. Amazon India changes Meanwhile, Amazon India has seen a change of guard at the top with company veteran Samir Kumar taking over the India head role following Manish Tiwary’s exit . The local arm of the US firm is also moving its Bengaluru headquarters in January closer to the airport in the city where the total rent outgo will be less. This is in line with the broader changes in Amazon India where it is looking to curtail costs at various operating metrics. Walmart-owned Flipkart continues to be the market leader in the ecommerce sector besides others like Meesho, Tata Neu and Reliance JioMart also operating in the sector. In FY24, Amazon’s India marketplace unit posted a 14% jump in operating revenue at Rs 25,406 crore while also cutting losses by 28% during the year to Rs 3,469 crore. While this is higher than the 3% revenue increase in FY23, it still lagged growth rates seen during the pandemic period, when revenue grew by 32% and 49% in FY22 and FY21 respectively. Its other India units—payments, transportation— saw a modest 7-9% revenue growth while there was a marginal dip in its wholesale business.10 notable books of 2024, from Sarah J. Maas to Melania TrumpTexans trying to get 'locked in' with Jags up next
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HELENA — MSU-Northern, Montana Western, and Montana Tech athletes were honored Wednesday with weekly Frontier Conference men's and women's basketball honors. In the NAIA Coaches' Top-25 Poll released on Wednesday, Tech's men, at 8-0, ascended two spots to No. 5. Rocky Mountain College's men received votes. Providence's women's team held at No. 6, while Carroll College fell from No. 9 to No. 21. Rocky Mountain College and Tech received votes. HisBadHorse, from Lame Deer, scored a career-high 29 points to accompany 13 rebounds and cap a 2-0 week for the Skylights. She was 13-of-19 from the field and 3-of-4 from the free-throw line Northern's 79-73 victory over Embry-Riddle. HisBadHorse also went 7-of-13 from the field for 15 points in Northern’s 76-58 home victory over Dickinson State (N.D.) on Monday, Nov. 18. Gruhler led the Bulldogs in their comeback 75-68 victory over Dickinson State on Friday. He totaled 22 points after shooting 8-for-11 from the field, converting 5-of-6 free throws. He added a pair of assists and grabbed nine rebounds. Davis stole the ball five times in the Bulldogs’ 77-71 home victory over Northwest (Wash.) on Friday. She also grabbed five defensive rebounds in the game and totaled eight. Diekhans led the Orediggers’ defense as they posted a 2-0 record in California last week. He pulled down 12 rebounds and added three steals in Tech's 42-30 defensive battle with California-Merced on Wednesday. He also had a block in the game. Diekhans collected seven rebounds in Orediggers’ 91-68 victory at Pacific Union on Friday.