With cost of living set to impact families over Christmas, Coles and Liquorland have released a range of new products to cater for every budget, including a $4 bottle of Hidden Gem semillon sauvignon blanc.
Inspired by a recent survey of Coles customers – in which more than 60 per cent of shoppers said their favourite part of Christmas was spending time with family and friends, and …
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In 2022, there is no one Elvis Presley. The One True Elvis is actually many Elvises, a deity with an infinite number of faces, refracted into an ever shifting pattern of pleasure and frustration, of contradictions and delights. For every Elvis myth, there’s a counter truth, and for every truth, a counter myth. He will never be resolved, or agreed upon. Which means that whether you l…
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The Internet has been a messy place in 2023. This year, the world was treated to a host of viral moments, from low-stakes dramas that nonetheless prompted days of discussion to trends with larger societal implications that will continue to be felt online.
Online, popular moments can be distinguished from the truly viral ones by their lifespans. These are your weird TikTok trends that peo…
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Elon Musk has lost $50 billion so far this week after Tesla shares plunged for the second day in a row.
It’s the biggest two-day decline in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and the biggest one-day fall after Jeff Bezos’s $36 billion plunge following his divorce from MacKenzie Scott in 2019.
Tesla’s rout comes amid a tumultuous few days for the autom…
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In the hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion, several major U.S. corporations announced they would cover travel expenses for employees who had to cross state lines to obtain an abortion.
Dick’s Sporting Goods announced it would provide up to $4,000 in travel expense reimbursement to employees who l…
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On the surface, the Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed into law on Tuesday may sound like a massive government spending program. Indeed, it promises to put nearly $370 billion in federal funding behind the energy transition.
But, if you dig deeper, the IRA is less about the power of government spending and more about the power of the private sector. The tax incentives, lo…
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As Anthony Okocha started hearing more and more talk about a potential recession earlier this year, he didn’t get nervous—he got practical. The 2021 college grad says his mindset became “control what I can control and minimize the risk of what I cannot,” while taking steps to prepare for a recession.
“My main focus is on becoming indispensable, or as close to…
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There’s been a cosmic shift in the Bravoverse. For fans of Vanderpump Rules, there will now always be a before and an after the moment they first found out about “Scandoval.”
It all started just after 3 p.m. ET on Friday, March 3 when TMZ dropped a report that OG Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval had been cheating on his girlfriend of nine years, Arian…
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A few months after I graduated from Stanford’s business school in 2013, Theranos was generating buzz on campus—and not all of it was good.
One evening, I found myself in a dinner party conversation with a group of some of the university’s brightest scientific minds. When talk landed on the still mostly-unknown medical technology startup that had raised nearly $100 millio…
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