The Sun

It's a good week to let the Moon guide you to two of the most important stars in the northern hemisphere's night sky—Spica in Virgo and the red supergiant ...

A red supergiant star 12 times the mass of the Sun, Antares is one of the biggest stars we know of. So it’s a good chance to let the Moon guide you to two of the most important stars in the northern hemisphere’s night sky—Spica in Virgo and the red supergiant star Antares in Scorpius. Like Betelgeuse in Orion (now in the daytime sky), Antares could go supernova at any time. Earth’s orbit of the Sun is not a perfect circle.

It makes the airport so much safer and able to handle a much higher volume of traffic than an uncontrolled airport. Craig Field is about to become a controlled ...

The University of Alabama’s Department of Communicative Disorders was in town at the Dallas County Health Department Wednesday June 29. Radio personality “Dollar Bill” Lawson, who worked in Selma at WHBB radio in the 1970s, returned for the film and says he and his wife were thrilled to be back. Actor Robert Berlin, who plays the bad guy, said he was excited to be in Selma and said to look forward to more projects like this one. The best aspect of it is it costs millions less than a physical tower and does not need to be physically located at the airport it controls. It makes the airport so much safer and able to handle a much higher volume of traffic than an uncontrolled airport. For a city to grow economically, it really needs an airport that is controlled by a control tower maned by air traffic controllers.

Summer is a season for vacations, relaxation, and restoration. As such, it can prove an ideal time to return to the classic texts we all know and love (and ...

Summer is a season for vacations, relaxation, and restoration. Summer is a season for vacations, relaxation, and restoration. As such, it can prove an ideal time to return to the classic texts we all know and love (and with some well-earned, unencumbered attention to boot). Close and serious reading can happen anywhere: no matter if you’re splayed on a towel atop a sandy swath, or lounging on a back porch with a boozy spritz by your side.

Sun Valley 2022 – a conference which has been described as 'summer camp for billionaires' – includes Apple CEO Tim Cook among the invitees.

The combination of Cook’s attendance and Netflix being seen as an acquisition target will inevitably lead to speculation about Apple buying the streaming media giant. The Netflix effect has spilled to shares of other streamers as investors question the economics of the high cost, still slim profit business. While discretion is the watchword of the event, a number of mergers and acquisitions are rumored to have been prompted by discussions between CEOs at the event. It stock plunged 70% from the start of the year after shedding subscribers last quarter for the first time, announcing it would lose more in the just-ended June quarter and suddenly unveiling plans to launch an ad-supported service even as it lays off staff. An independent Netflix “is gone,” predicted one financier. As a result, Netflix is increasingly seen as a takeover target — an unusual shift.

As traveling resumes, luxury brands are chasing customers in vacation locations.

This summer, the East Hamptons gallery will feature creations by two London-based jewelers, Solange Azagury-Partridge and Cora Sheibani. He noted that half of the shop’s initial sales were to Americans and about 30 percent to Europeans. Scheduled to operate until September in Mykonos’s village of Nammos, the Cartier boutique has a typical Greek look: It’s housed in a whitewashed structure surrounded by olive trees. The disruption has also prompted some luxury names to turn their temporary sites into permanent locations. And Sotheby’s has made permanent the galleries that it opened in 2020 in the Hamptons and Palm Beach, Fla. “Now we have become part of the fabric of those places, and clients come to Palm Beach and East Hamptons also because we are there,” David Schrader, Sotheby’s global head of private sales, said in a phone call. And what did they buy?

Apple TV+ is again expected to be represented by Tim Cook at the annual Allen & Co Sun Valley media retreat, alongside executives including Elon Musk and ...

Investment bank Allen & Co has been hosting a Sun Valley media retreat for 40 years, only missing 2020 because of the coronavirus. Apple TV+ is again expected to be represented by Tim Cook at the annual Allen & Co Sun Valley media retreat, alongside executives including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is on the guest list for this year's Sun Valley Conference, which begins Wednesday in the resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho,...

Apple CEO Tim Cook this week met with Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, where the two reportedly discussed trade, investment, and finance. The redesigned MacBook Air with the all-new M2 Apple silicon chip will be available for customers starting Friday, July 15, MacRumors has learned from a retail source. Gallaudet University has announced that Apple CEO Tim Cook will deliver the university's commencement address next month. Tim Cook has made the list many times in the past, including just last year. Other top stories this week included a host of product rumors including additional M2 and even M3 Macs, an updated... It's unclear when Horvath will speak or what topics she plans to discuss at the conference, but Apple has been advocating against the EU's proposed Digital Markets... The six nominations include best picture for the film... Apple CEO Tim Cook has made the list of TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2022, earning a spot in the "Titans" category. Hosted by investment bank Allen & Company, the conference has served as a catalyst for some major deals in the media industry, ranging from Disney acquiring ABC in 1995 to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' purchasing The Washington Post in 2013. Apple's negotiations have typically been kept under wraps, but the conference provides the company with an opportunity to secure media deals for services like Apple TV+. Apple CEO Tim Cook is attending the Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho this week alongside many high-profile guests, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to NPR. Described as a "summer camp for billionaires," the annual media conference is hosted by private investment firm Allen & Company and allows media and tech moguls to negotiate deals in between leisure activities such... Apple CEO Tim Cook is on the guest list for this year's Sun Valley Conference, which begins Wednesday in the resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho, according to Deadline. Known as "summer camp for billionaires," the conference allows tech and media moguls to negotiate deals between leisure activities like golfing and whitewater rafting.

From Warner Bros. Discovery's David Zaslav and Bruce Campbell to Walt Disney boss Bob Chapek — as well as his predecessor Bob Iger — media and tech titans ...

“This is driving significant increases in content spending (including local content) globally along with an uptick in churn for leading services such as Netflix (and majority of net add growth skewing towards newer entrants).” After all, amid increased competition, the rising cost of living and Netflix’s shock first-quarter subscriber drop, analysts have debated whether the one or the other Hollywood powerhouse’s streaming subscriber and financial forecasts may have to come down. For example, as CEO of Discovery, David Zaslav has long been one of the media moguls attending the annual gathering and one who has been sought after by his peers and media reporters alike. After that, Chapek put his stamp on the Mouse House by filling key roles that had been held by close Iger advisers and outlining new “strategic pillars” for the conglomerate. One pending big deal that is still likely to draw much attention in Sun Valley this year is Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk’s $44 billion planned takeover of social media giant Twitter. The fact that both Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal are expected in town adds more intrigue. Other deal talk could this year move from hunting for new targets to focusing on getting the most out of past deals or existing business portfolios.

Popular novels don their summer gear. By Oliver Munday. drawings of book covers. Oliver Munday / The Atlantic.

Summer is a season for vacations, relaxation, and restoration. Summer is a season for vacations, relaxation, and restoration. As such, it can prove an ideal time to return to the classic texts we all know and love (and with some well-earned, unencumbered attention to boot). Close and serious reading can happen anywhere: no matter if you’re splayed on a towel atop a sandy swath, or lounging on a back porch with a boozy spritz by your side.

As fleece-clad billionaires—and newcomers like Bari Weiss—flock to Idaho this week, Sun Valley fixtures are buzzing about Netflix's future, an Elon-led ...

“To see how Reed and Ted engage with people will be interesting for sure,” one source said. The Tesla boss isn’t just one of the most talked about and controversial people in the business world—he’s become one of the most talked about and controversial figures in the entire world, and his likely ownership of Twitter is seen as having major implications for free speech and democracy and the ability of platforms to rein in disinformation in a highly polarized society. Nellie and I”—as in Nellie Bowles, her wife—“are researching high-end athleisure at this very moment.” (Wouldn’t you be?) As for the Murdochs, I was able to confirm that James, Lachlan, and Rupert will all be in attendance. Chapek, of course, will arrive in Idaho with a new three-year contract, putting to bed speculation that, following a series of highly publicized stumbles, his Disney stewardship may not be long for this world. Someone else who has attended the conference over the years alternatively posited, “Everybody will be watching for the body language between Chapek and Iger, the Game of Thrones dynamic between the current emperor and the past emperor, and how that will shake out.” This source was referring, obviously, to the two Bobs—Bob Iger, the legendary former CEO of Disney, and Bob Chapek, the embattled current Disney boss—whose well-documented falling-out has been grist for the Hollywood gossip mill.

Aphelion 2022: Today, Earth will be the farthest from the Sun. Know the reason here.

Likewise the farthest distance between Earth and the Sun is known as Aphelion and there is a day when the planet and our giant star are the closest, which is known as Perihelion. It generally happens in early January when the Earth is approximately 91.4 million miles (147.1 million km) away from the Sun. But why does the Earth and the Sun's distance vary? Similarly, Earth’s orbit in which the planet revolves around the Sun is not a perfect circle, that’s why we have aphelion and perihelion. This special phenomenon is dubbed ‘aphelion’. On this day, the Earth and the Sun are separated by nearly 152.1 million kilometres, which is around 1.67 percent more than the mean distance between Earth and the Sun. The mean Earth-Sun separation is 149.6 million kilometres, which is calculated as one Astronomical Unit (AI).