Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, June 22 (game #1245)
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Perfect Moment sales surge on wholesale boom
Published November 17, 2025 Perfect Moment announced on Friday sales for the second quarter surged 24% to $4.8 million, on the back of strong wholesale revenues at the après skiwear brand. Perfect Moment The London-based company said wholesale revenues skyrocketed 61% for the three months ending September 30, thanks to growth across its wholesale order book…
Why Chinese shoppers are choosing local luxury over LVMH and Gucci
By Bloomberg Published November 17, 2025 When Bernard Arnault, one of the world’s richest men and chairman of LVMH, dropped by Shanghai in September, many assumed his itinerary would be routine: check in on Louis Vuitton, Dior, and the rest of his empire’s boutiques in China’s most prestigious malls. But instead, Arnault did something unexpected….
Premature birth can be incredibly lonely, says Princess Beatrice
Princess Beatrice has said premature birth can be “incredibly lonely”, as she reflected on her own experience for a podcast ahead of World Prematurity Day. Her words are part of a campaign for premature birth research charity Borne, of which she became a patron months after her daughter was born several weeks early. “I think…
Walmart CEO McMillon to retire after a decade, insider Furner named successor
By Reuters Published November 17, 2025 Walmart CEO Doug McMillon will retire next year after more than a decade at the helm, capping a period when he reshaped the big-box retailer into a technology-driven powerhouse whose shares have consistently outperformed the broader market. John Furner – Reuters McMillon, 59, will be replaced by U.S. division…
Use Google Gemini and ChatGPT to Organize Your Life With Scheduled Actions
The developers of the big generative AI chatbots are continuing to push out new features at a rapid rate, as they bid to make sure their bot is the one you turn to whenever you need some assistance from artificial intelligence. One of the latest updates to Google Gemini gives you the ability to set…
Scientists find a surprising link between lead and human evolution
A major international research effort is reshaping the long-held belief that lead exposure is primarily a modern problem. The new findings show that early human ancestors encountered lead repeatedly for more than two million years, suggesting that this toxic metal may have played an unexpected role in shaping the evolution of hominid brains, behavior, and…
Extreme-pressure experiment reveals a strange new ice phase
The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS, President Lee Ho Seong) has captured the first-ever observation of water repeatedly freezing and melting at ultrahigh pressures above 2 gigapascals (2 GPa) while remaining at room temperature. These rapid changes were recorded on a microsecond (μs, one-millionth of a second) timescale. This achievement led to…
Microquasars emerge as the Milky Way’s most extreme particle engines
Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have finally clarified a decades-old puzzle in astrophysics: the unusual drop in cosmic ray counts above 3 PeV that produces what scientists call the “knee” in the cosmic ray energy spectrum. The cause of this steep decline has remained mysterious…
AI creates the first 100-billion-star Milky Way simulation
Researchers led by Keiya Hirashima at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in Japan, working with partners from The University of Tokyo and Universitat de Barcelona in Spain, have created the first Milky Way simulation capable of tracking more than 100 billion individual stars across 10 thousand years of evolution. The…
Melanoma rates are spiking fast in these 15 Pennsylvania counties
Counties in Pennsylvania that contain or sit close to cultivated cropland show notably higher melanoma rates than other parts of the state, according to new research led by scientists at Penn State. Researchers at the Penn State Cancer Institute reviewed cancer registry data collected from 2017 through 2021 and discovered that adults over age 50…
