Shaken by a government advisory panel’s poor review of its experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, Biogen announced a team-up Friday with Sage Therapeutics. Biogen has committed up to $3.1 billion to the development and marketing of two drugs that Sage is developing for depression and neurological disorders. If successful, the drugs would shore up Biogen’s … Read more
The new NBA season begins on December 22, 2020. It is the quickest turnaround in NBA history, from the time between the end of the previous season and the start of the new season. Trail Blazers’ CJ McCollum has shared his concerns about this. Many people were surprised by the quick turnaround of just 70 … Read more
Mat Smith / Engadget The TrueFreedom Pro is understated and stylish (if a phone charger can be stylish), with a black matte surface and chrome trim. Nothing interrupts this surface, barring the port for powering it, although it’d be nice to have a USB-A or USB-C port to charge non-Qi compatible devices. A lot, if … Read more
Vandals went on an anti-Thanksgiving and anti-colonial crime spree in several US states, smashing and defacing storefronts and toppling a war memorial overnight Thursday. At least 10 businesses in Portland, including a Chase Bank and the New Seasons Market along Hawthorne Boulevard, had their windows broken and messages like “Pequot Massacre,” “Land back,” “1637” and … Read more
Hugh Grant says it’s rough being an “old man” with young kids during quarantine. The 60-year-old actor — who has five children under 10 — sarcastically told the Los Angeles Times that “everything’s perfect” amid the surge of COVID-19 cases where he lives in London. “Well, apart from the fact we’re having a second spike … Read more
It’s finally here! It may be without a proper name, and in the middle of this abbreviated 2020-season, but Oregon & Oregon State are set to do battle in Reser Stadium on Friday afternoon. With the Ducks being a 13.5 point favorite, I look for the Beavers to cover the spread and at least give … Read more
karen lede Karen Lima bought her wedding dress without trying it on first. Juliana Kneipp Karen Lima and Robson Costa got married in 2018 after being together for 10 years. Before setting a wedding date, Lima saw her dream wedding dress on Pinterest: a gold Kyha Studios gown covered in head-to-toe sparkles. She spent months … Read more
Courteney Cox/Instagram. Inset: Jean Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Courteney Cox is making our Thanksgiving dreams come true! To commemorate the holiday this year, the actress recreated the iconic moment from a 1998 Friends episode where her character, Monica Geller, dances with a raw turkey stuck on her head. The 56-year-old star shared a hilarious video to Instagram … Read more
Wall Street is getting increasingly bullish about U.S. electric-vehicle stocks—the latest one, QuantumScape, rose by more than one-third when it hit the market—but there is reason for caution amid the optimism. There aren’t all that many Wall Street opinions out there yet for investors to digest. Citigroup analyst Itay Michaeli made the most recent bullish … Read more
So it happened! After being teased by Bo-Katan Kryze in the third episode of The Mandalorian season 2, the fan-favourite Star Wars Rebels character Ahsoka Tano finally made her live-action debut in the fifth episode. In what is one of season’s best episodes, a pattern that seems to follow an odd-numbering sequence, Ahsoka Tano made a … Read more