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Sonos has kicked off its Father’s Day sale, offering discounts on home audio equipment through the middle of June. This includes discounts on the Sonos Arc Ultra soundbar, Ace headphones, and more. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Sonos. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. This sale includes Sonos product bundles that should help elevate your home theater setup with various soundbars, subwoofers, and speakers. There are also a few products available outside of a bundle, including the Sonos Arc Ultra for $899…

President Trump announced Friday his administration would be doubling tariffs on steel imports from 25 percent to 50 percent during a visit to Pennsylvania focused on boosting the U.S. steel industry. “We’re going to bring it from 25 to 50 percent on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States,” Trump said during remarks at a steel factory in Pittsburgh. The president’s announcement came as part of an event to tout what Trump called a “blockbuster” agreement between U.S. Steel and Japanese-owned Nippon Steel. “We’re here today to celebrate…

For the first time, biologists have linked the ribbony “tails” streaming from big, green luna moths’ hind wings with, of all things, a cozy climate. Those dangling wing tails rank among such evolution-was-drunk novelties as the narwhal’s single unicorn tusk or the peacock’s giant feather train. Wing streamers with twisting or cupped ends have evolved independently at least five times in the family of luna and other moon moths (Saturniidae), says behavioral ecologist Juliette Rubin, now at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama. Her new data crunch of environmental factors links the ribbony tails with growing up in…

From Blackpink to White Lotus, the career of Thai singer, rapper, dancer, and actress Lisa is exploding. Now a documentary is in the works about Lisa’s past year when she took a break from the K-Pop group to go solo for the first time, while dazzling with her acting debut in the hit HBO drama (she also found time to perform at the Oscars and appear solo at Coachella). Award-winning filmmaker Sue Kim (The Speed Cubers, The Last of the Sea Women) is directing the film titled simply LISA. She tells Deadline she just completed the documentary’s final shoot with…

On May 16, 2023, Sam Altman appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary. The title of the hearing was “Oversight of AI.” The session was a lovefest, with both Altman and the senators celebrating what Altman called AI’s “printing press moment”—and acknowledging that the US needed strong laws to avoid its pitfalls. “We think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models,” he said. The legislators hung on Altman’s every word as he gushed about how smart laws could allow AI to flourish—but only within firm guidelines that both lawmakers and…

Garcelle Beauvais Announces Shocking Exit From ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’The Housewives are hopping the pond. Hayu has revealed the first look at the cast of the upcoming reality series The Real Housewives of London—and one costar might look very familiar to Bravo fans. The six England-based stars include Ladies of London alum Juliet Angus, former model Amanda Cronin, Real Housewives of Jersey (not New Jersey) alum Karen Loderick-Peace, former actress and pageant queen Juliet Mayhew, socialite Pantha Parker and businesswoman Nessie Welschinger. Filming on the latest Real Housewives location began in March, “With these six bold, dynamic and successful…

The NCAA’s NBA withdrawal deadline came and went Wednesday night, but not without some drama. In the final days and hours, numerous teams waited with bated breath as several major college stars debated — and in some cases delayed — their professional pursuits.That theme carried throughout the deadline period, which featured major risers and fallers among draft prospects, momentum swings for programs and a reshaped draft landscape. Over just a few weeks, the pre-draft process moved players through interviews, team workouts and the NBA Draft Combine, solidifying what this year’s talent pool will look like when the draft begins June…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The whale has returned. After rocking the global AI and business community early this year with the January 20 initial release of its hit open source reasoning AI model R1, the Chinese startup DeepSeek — a spinoff of formerly only locally well-known Hong Kong quantitative analysis firm High-Flyer Capital Management — has released DeepSeek-R1-0528, a significant update that brings DeepSeek’s free and open model near parity in reasoning capabilities with proprietary paid models such as OpenAI’s o3 and Google Gemini 2.5…

United States President Donald Trump has brushed aside criticism of his wide-ranging budget bill — known as the One Big Beautiful Bill — from a high-profile source, government adviser Elon Musk. On Wednesday, at a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office, Trump faced questions about Musk’s comments, which suggested the bill would balloon the national debt. The Republican leader responded with a degree of ambivalence, though he staunchly defended the bill’s tax cuts. “We will be negotiating that bill, and I’m not happy about certain aspects of it, but I’m thrilled by other aspects of it,” Trump said. “That’s the…

Objective: Test if adding glycerin or corn syrup improves a bubble solution Areas of science: Chemistry Difficulty: Easy beginner Time required: ≤ 1 day Prerequisites: None Material availability: Readily available Cost: $20 – $50 Safety: No issues Credits: Sara Agee, Ph.D., Science Buddies Everybody loves bubbles! But what makes bubbles form and float up in the air until they pop? The secret to a good bubble is something called surface tension, an invisible bond that holds water molecules together. Water is a polar molecule, so it has plus and minus ends — just like magnets that attract each other. When…