Veteran music executive Mark Pitts has officially stepped down from his role as president of Sony Music‘s RCA Records and will launch his new venture Cofvnders, a multi-media management company, he announced on Tuesday. Pitts will maintain his relationship with the RCA/Sony Music family, as a consultant on the acts he worked closely with and…
Nature, Published online: 14 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00914-0 The quest to make fire-lighting less dangerous, and a proposal for smallest unit of information worth photocopying, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. Source link
Bitcoin continued to rise early Tuesday, topping a price of $75,000 and hitting its highest level since early February as bears betting against BTC and other leading cryptocurrencies saw rising short liquidations. The leading crypto asset was recently trading at $75,834, per data from CoinGecko, rising above the $75,000 mark for the first time since…
“China urges all parties to abide by the ceasefire arrangements, focus on the general direction of dialogue and peace talks, take practical actions to promote the easing of the regional situation, and restore normal traffic in the strait as soon as possible.” Source link
The financial body cuts its growth forecast for the UK and warns the war threatens to throw the global economy “off course”. Source link
Lucid is making some changes. The luxury EV company said Tuesday that it was expanding its robotaxi deal with Uber — and nabbing some additional investment cash in the process. And it’s naming a new CEO who hails not from the world of electric vehicles, but from a company that manufactures a different kind of…
But America’s past economic success is no guarantee of its future, writes Joseph Stiglitz Source link
The IPL final is on 31 May, four days before the series opener against the Black Caps at Lord’s. It would be difficult for any pace bowler who remains at the IPL until the closing stages of the competition to switch to the workload of Test cricket at such short notice. Jofra Archer, currently playing…
Viesturs Kairišs‘ “Ulya,” which will world premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard, has been boarded by Paris-based sales agency B-Rated International. The film is set in Latvia in 1964. Ulya, a teenage girl nearing two meters tall, grows up on a country farm. Her unusual height troubles her family, who wonder if there’s a…
We agree with your Career feature describing librarians as “key research partners” (see Nature 650, 1063–1065; 2026). We would like to push back against the widespread perception that librarians are only service providers. They should also be valued for their disciplinary expertise and viewpoints. An example is J.E.B., who joined research projects as a team…