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☆ London Fashion Week has plenty to celebrate on its 40th anniversary
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Fiona Sinclair Scott | Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

London CNN —Against the backdrop of a challenging economic outlook for many brands — big and small — the 40th anniversary of London Fashion Week last week was certainly a time for reflection. Even Carly Marks, founder of avant-garde New York label Puppets and Puppets, chose London this season. But all eyes were on Burberry, undoubtedly the biggest brand on the London Fashion Week schedule, yet one that has been battling against sharply declining profits. To see the best bits of London Fashion Week, keep scrolling. Talia ByreErdem Jason Lloyd EvansSophistication, elegance and femininity were key themes at TOVE's third show at London Fashion Week.

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☆ How Analyst Dylan Patel gets inside Nvidia to make connections from the semiconductor industry to the tech it enables
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-14 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. SemiAnalysis gets deep into the weeds on graphics processing units, from the base of the supply chain to the end-users building the AI models that require so many specialized chips. AdvertisementThe team consists of people across the entire supply chain, geographically and technically. So we have the entire view of the supply chain, from manufacturing, up to models. The other place I like to look a lot is random suppliers that are very small in niche parts of the supply chain, or suppliers of suppliers.

Persons: —, Jensen Huang isn't, Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis, Sam Altman, Patel, Sundar, Altman, Blackwell, Nvidia's, They've, they're Organizations: Service, intel, Google, Business, BI, Nvidia, Microsoft, AMD, Meta Locations: US, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, France

☆ Here are 3 smart crypto tax moves to consider — whether prices go up or down
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Weigh 'tax gain harvesting'Despite recent dips, many long-time crypto investors could have significant gains. Long-term capital gains rates apply to assets owned for more than one year. Of course, you'll need to weigh the tax consequences of boosting your adjusted gross income with crypto gains, which can impact other tax breaks. Consider the crypto wash sale 'loophole'If you're sitting on crypto losses, you could consider tax-loss harvesting, which allows you to offset other investing profits. Although tax-loss harvesting often happens at year-end, it's better to harvest crypto losses over time because "those losses may no longer exist" by year-end, Gordon explained.

Persons: bitcoin, Andrew Gordon, Adam Markowitz, Gordon Organizations: Getty, Gordon Law Group, Luminary, IRS Locations: Windermere , Florida

☆ Bitcoin is up more than 50% this year — here are key crypto tax rules every investor should know
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

After holding crypto for more than one year, you'll qualify for long-term capital gains of 0%, 15% or 20%, depending on taxable income. Higher earners may also owe an extra 3.8% levy, known as net investment income tax. By comparison, short-term capital gains or regular income taxes apply to assets owned for one year or less. New crypto reporting rulesThe U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS in June released final guidance for digital asset brokers, which phases in mandatory yearly reporting. With limited past reporting on basis, crypto investors can still establish a "reasonable allocation" before Jan. 1, 2025, according to an IRS revenue procedure released in June.

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☆ Election Updates: The Jamaal Bowman-George Latimer primary could signal many political benchmarks.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Claire Fahy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

New York is a closed primary state, meaning Democrats and Republicans can vote only in their own parties’ primaries. Bowman and Mr. Latimer may serve as harbingers of many political benchmarks. Mr. Latimer is largely supportive of Israel, calling for a return of all hostages before any potential cease-fire. Mr. Latimer has received $14.5 million in support from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. It has also featured negative characterizations, with Mr. Latimer portraying Mr.

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☆ It’s Primary Day in New York. Here’s What to Know.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Claire Fahy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Tuesday is Primary Day in New York. Other congressional contests have also drawn interest, including one in eastern Long Island, where a media and political luminary made a late entry into the Democratic primary against an established candidate. The Democratic-led State Legislature is also up for election in November, and a number of Assembly primary races are expected to be close. Finding out where to votePolls will open at 6 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. Voters can find their local polling places on the Board of Elections website.

Persons: Jamaal Bowman, George Latimer, luminary Organizations: Democratic Locations: New York, Westchester County, Long

☆ Opinion: Juneteenth, Haiti and the power of reinvention
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Opinion Nadine Pinede | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Juneteenth is a celebration of that hard-fought Black freedom, observed in honor of June 19, 1865 when slaves in Galveston, Texas, first learned from Union soldiers that they were free. Like my parents growing up in Haiti, she was used to seeing Black people in positions of power. She had freed herself from unjust rules meant to restrict education for Black Americans. Mark Felix/AFP/Getty ImagesIn Haiti, Hurston’s creative powers had the time and freedom to unfurl. As the author of “Barracoon,” a book based on interviews with one of the last enslaved Black Americans, Hurston almost certainly understood the significance of Juneteenth.

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☆ Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi: 28 of her artworks mysteriously disappeared three decades ago. They’ve finally returned home to South Africa
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Gertrude Kitongo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Johannesburg, South Africa CNN —It was a phone call that changed everything. “We have some good news.”Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi had been waiting to hear those words for more than 30 years. Origins of an artistSebidi was born in 1943 near Hammanskraal, South Africa, north of Pretoria. One of artist Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi's early works, which often depict traditional, rural scenes of a time before European colonization came to the African continent. “We need those freedoms.”Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi’s exhibition is on display at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery until May 17, 2024.

Persons: ”, Helen Sebidi, ” Sebidi, Sebidi, “, John Koenakeefe Mohl, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi “, Mark Read, Everard, “ Helen, Read, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi's, Helen Sebidi “, –, – Sebidi, Kim Berman, ’, Helen Sebidi's, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi Sebedi, Gabriel Baard, ” Baard, ” Berman, Thabo Mbeki –, Jesper Osterberg, Gabriel Baard Baard, Everard Read, Helen Sebidi’s Organizations: South Africa CNN, South, CNN, Johannesburg Art Foundation, Everard Read, Galleries, Federated Union of Black Artists, Millary Colony, Arts, Nyköping Folk, School, University of Johannesburg, “, Smithsonian, Folk High School, Swiss Air Freight, University of Johannesburg Art, Swedish Embassy Locations: Johannesburg, South Africa, Sweden, Hammanskraal, Pretoria, New York, Swedish, Nyköping, Black, “, Stockholm, Sebidi

☆ Spotify's stock is surging — and its CEO is cashing out
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has sold $176.3 million worth of stock this year. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementDaniel Ek, Spotify's cofounder and CEO, has sold $176.3 million worth of his stock in the streaming service this year as its shares continue to surge. On Wednesday, Ek sold roughly 400,000 shares, worth $118.8 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. In a separate transaction in February, he sold 250,000 shares, worth $57.5 million, per filings.

Persons: Daniel Ek, Ek, —, Spotify's Organizations: Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, Business

☆ Terry Carter, Barrier-Breaking Actor and Documentarian, Dies at 95
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His death was confirmed by his son, Miguel Carter DeCoste. Mr. Carter was raised in a bilingual home next door to a synagogue in a predominantly Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn. In his first stage role, at 9, Mr. Carter played the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama on a voyage of discovery. It was not him but a much younger Terry Carter who had died in a hit-and-run accident in Los Angeles by a pickup truck driven by the rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight. Slightly misquoting Mark Twain, Mr. Carter posted on social media: “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

Persons: Terry Carter, Duke Ellington, Katherine Dunham, Miguel Carter DeCoste, Carter, Cecil Taylor, Vasco da Gama, Marion “ Suge, Mark Twain Locations: Midtown Manhattan, Italian, Brooklyn, Portuguese, China, Europe, Los Angeles

☆ Opinion | The Economic Luminary Who Loved Solar Eclipses
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 1857, William Stanley Jevons was 22 years old and was working as an assayer for the Sidney Mint. Two eclipses passed over Australia that year, and Jevons enthusiastically tracked both. I think it’s interesting nonetheless, because Jevons went on to become one of the most important economists of his century. Your first glass of orange juice tastes great, the second less so, and the third you pour down the drain. So don’t buy that third glass of orange juice.

Persons: William Stanley Jevons, Jevons, “, ”, Léon, Carl Menger Organizations: Sidney Mint Locations: Australia, Bellevue Hill, Switzerland, Austria

☆ These surprise sources of income could cost you during tax season
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Darla Mercado | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Investors are celebrating a year of easy-to-obtain interest income, but the Tax Man will want his slice this spring. Institutions report interest income of $10 or more to their customers and the Internal Revenue Service on Form 1099-INT . For instance, you can be on the hook for an accuracy-related penalty of 20% of the underpayment of the tax. Interest income from these I bonds is subject to federal income tax, but investors don't receive it until they redeem the bond or it matures. "It might be worth it to buy the MLP and pay the tax," Kearns said.

Persons: Elizabeth Buffardi, Buffardi, you'll, Jerrod Pearce, Adam Markowitz, Brian Kearns, Kearns Organizations: Internal Revenue Service, IRS, CPA, Creative Planning, Luminary, CFP, Haddam, Advisors, MLP Locations: Oak Brook , Illinois, Overland Park , Kansas, Windermere , Florida, Evanston , Illinois

☆ James Brown's daughters reveal who the Godfather of Soul really was: He 'was Daddy'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Felice León | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

James Brown's daughters, Deanna Brown Thomas and Yamma Brown, discussed their father's life and legacy. The interview is in anticipation of the A&E limited series, "James Brown: Say It Loud," premiering Monday night. Music really was his purpose," Brown’s daughter, Yamma Brown, told Business Insider when describing her dad’s driving force. AdvertisementYamma Brown: James Brown was daddy. “James Brown: Say it Loud,” executive produced by Mick Jagger and Questlove, premieres Monday, February 19 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on A&E.

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☆ ‘Tired of Being Quiet,’ Sarah Jarosz Tests the Mainstream
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Jon Pareles | More About Jon Pareles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Jarosz, 32, is a luminary in acoustic Americana, where bluegrass, folk, jazz and chamber music mingle with pop and rock. The instrument sounds a little darker and twangier than acoustic guitar in the same range — a hand-played lower voice that answers Jarosz’s own hovering mezzo-soprano. She made her first four albums in Nashville, and she was urged to write songs with more seasoned musicians; she chose not to release any of them. “The quote-unquote ‘Nashville co-writing’ thing had been pushed on me when I was like 18, 17, making my first record,” she said. “I was really closed off to it back in that time, because I felt like I was still finding my voice.

Persons: Jarosz, ”, “, Hemby, Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga Locations: Austin , Texas, Wimberley, Nashville

☆ The generative AI future will not be free
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Our paid AI futureToday, we're at the start of a similarly exciting new technology wave with generative AI. Even Google, the master of free online services, is considering paid subscriptions for some of its new AI offerings. So, why will generative AI offerings be paid from the start? One possible answer is that ads may not work as well in this new generative AI future. Charging for new generative AI services is one way to create new earnings.

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☆ ‘The Emigrants’ Review: A Troubled Show Finally Debuts
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Laura Cappelle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Yet as the technical crew moved furniture between scenes of Krystian Lupa’s new play “The Emigrants,” which finally had its world premiere in Paris on Saturday, they were watched as carefully as headline performers. Without these inconspicuous figures, the show can’t go on — and for much of the past year, a dispute with technicians has kept “The Emigrants” from the stage. Initially scheduled to debut last June at the Comédie de Genève, a prestigious Swiss playhouse, that production was canceled less than a week before opening night. At the time, the Comédie de Genève cited differences in “work philosophy” and “values” between its team and Lupa, 80, a longtime luminary of European theater. An article in the Swiss newspaper Le Temps said that the theater’s crew had been “mentally and physically exhausted” by Lupa’s attitude in rehearsal.

Persons: Krystian, Le Temps, Lupa Locations: Paris, Swiss

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☆ Fact Check: The moon is not a reflection of Earth
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The moon is not a reflection of Earth, despite a viral TikTok clip circulating online. A clip (archived) circulating online opens with a visual of the moon and text printed across the upper-third that reads, “This Proves My Video ‘Moon is a Reflection of Earth.’”A voice over can then be heard claiming that the moon is a “translucent plasma luminary” which is why you can see the moon during the day. The individual moves the light source and with it, the two light points move, opposite each other, around the resin. The video does not prove that the sun and moon are reflections of another light source, or that the moon is a reflection of Earth. The moon is not a reflection of Earth.

Persons: ” Mike Boylan, Read Organizations: University of Texas, Reuters, European Space Agency, National Aeronautical and Space Agency, NASA, Reconnaissance, Thomson Locations: Austin

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. "Sam and OpenAI were the catalyst that showed the world what AI tech is capable of," Jannsen said. Silicon Valley's high-profile startup CEO firings typically involve wrongdoing, rather than just philosophical differences about where the company is headed. "Sam Altman is a hero of mine," former Google CEO and investor Eric Schmidt said in an X post. — CNBC's Lora Kolodny contributed to this report WATCH: OpenAI says Sam Altman exiting as CEO because 'board no longer has confidence.'

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☆ Dolly Parton ‘Rockstar’ album takeaways
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —It’s already a vital American truth that Dolly Parton is a national treasure, and has been for decades. From there, Parton saw a challenge to become a rockstar in her own right, and after her husband suggested she do a rock album, she embarked on the journey, culminating with Friday’s release of her appropriately titled forty-ninth (!!) Cover of "Rockstar" by Dolly Parton. Butterfly Records/APThe second track is also an original song, “World on Fire,” which dutifully tries to ruffle some feathers (like a rockstar would) by commenting on the state of the world today. Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus perform onstage at the 61st annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on February 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

Persons: CNN — It’s, Dolly Parton, Parton, Rockstar ”, Richie Sambora, Dolly, Carl, Ann Wilson, John Fogerty, Kid, Prince, Miley Cyrus, Stevie Nicks, Melissa Etheridge, Ronnie McDowell –, Elvis Presley –, Cyrus, Emma McIntyre, Pink, Brandi Carlile, Peter Frampton, “, Kevin Cronin, Frampton, Cronin, Elton John’s “, Sasha Flute, Linda Perry, Pat Benatar, Neil Geraldo Organizations: CNN, Hall of Fame, rockstar, Rockstar, Butterfly, Staples Center, The Recording, REO, Zeppelin Locations: Los Angeles , California

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A stretch of street in Oakland, California, was renamed Friday for Tupac Shakur, 27 years after the killing of the hip-hop luminary. A section of MacArthur Boulevard near where he lived in the 1990s became Tupac Shakur Way, following a ceremony that included his family members and Oakland native MC Hammer. The sign for Tupac Shakur Way was unveiled moments later. “He said Oakland gave him his game.”The ceremony came the day after a former Southern California street gang leader pleaded not guilty to murder in the Las Vegas shooting death of Shakur. Sekyiwa Shakur said her brother “died at 25 years old in gang violence, by the hands of another Black man, by the planning of another Black man, whoever that man may be."

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Before House Speaker Mike Johnson was elected to public office, he was the dean of a small Baptist law school that didn't exist. “The law school deal was really an anomaly. As dean of the proposed law school, Johnson embarked on a major fundraising campaign and described a big-dollar event in Houston with former Arkansas Gov. Bobby Jindal and Pressler, according to an account Johnson wrote in a 2011 alumni magazine. Meanwhile, the historic former federal courthouse in Shreveport that was selected as the law school’s campus required at least $20 million in renovations.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, It's, “, ”, Gene Mills, Johnson's, ” J, Michael Johnson, Southern Baptist Convention luminary, Tony Perkins, Jerry Falwell, “ I’m, Joe Aguillard, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Aguillard, “ Mike, Gilbert Little, ” Johnson, Perkins, Little, Barack, Kelly, Kelly Johnson, Louis “ Woody ” Jenkins, Jenkins, Democrat Mary Landrieu, Moon Griffin, Eugene Mills, Mills, ” Mills, Johnson’s, George W, Bush’s, it’s, Lamar White Jr, Lamar, Richard Lardner, Trenton Daniel Organizations: WASHINGTON, Paul Pressler School of Law, Louisiana College, Louisiana Christian University, Republican House, Southern Baptist Convention, Family Research, Southern Poverty Law, Liberty University, Daily, ”, Arkansas Gov, Louisiana Gov, Freedom Guard, Southern Baptist Conference, Shreveport Times, ABC News, Louisiana State University, Democrat, Louisiana Family, Alliance Defense Fund, Alliance Defending, ADF, CNN, Democratic, Civil, Associated Press Locations: Louisiana, Washington, Alexandria , Louisiana, Houston, Pressler, Africa, Shreveport, Shreveport , Louisiana, everyone’s, America, New Orleans, Texas, Orleans Parish, Trump’s, Baton Rouge, New York

☆ Luminary, an AI-generated pop-up restaurant, just opened in Australia. Here's what's on the menu, from bioluminescent calamari to chocolate mousse.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A restaurant in Sydney, Australia is hosting an AI-generated pop-up restaurant for a week. Stefanie Wee used ChatGPT and Canva's AI-image generator to create the restaurant's concept. Rafi, a restaurant based in Sydney, Australia, is hosting an AI-generated pop-up restaurant named Luminary this week. Reviews for Luminary have been mixed, with one customer writing that the AI restaurant "restored my faith in humanity." This isn't the first time the dining industry has used AI — be it for a marketing ploy or to make business more efficient.

Persons: Stefanie Wee, it's, Rafi, Applejack, Luminary Wee, ChatGPT, Wee, Luminary Organizations: Morning, Applejack Hospitality Locations: Sydney, Australia, Perth, Luminary

☆ Kevin Mitnick: Legendary computer hacker Kevin Mitnick dies at 59
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Andy Rose | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“I was an old-school hacker, doing it for intellectual curiosity,” Mitnick told Wired magazine in a 2008 interview. Mitnick and federal prosecutors agreed to a plea deal in 1999 to seven criminal counts, including wire fraud and causing damage to computers. Mitnick published a memoir on his hacking career, “Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker,” in 2011. Following his prison term, Mitnick became a white-hat hacker, using his expertise to legally help businesses track people trying to break into their systems. “I made some really stupid mistakes in the past as a younger man that I regret,” Mitnick told CNN in a 2005 interview.

Persons: Kevin Mitnick, Matthew Broderick, Mitnick, “, ” Mitnick, ”, Stu Sjouwerman, ” “ Kevin, ” Sjouwerman, Kevin, Kimberley Organizations: CNN, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Digital Equipment Corporation, Wired Locations: KnowBe4, Las Vegas

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