Rule The Seas In This Retired Dutch Navy Ship Reborn As $24 Million Yacht Rich people are always looking for new ways to one-up each other, whether it’s opting for an outlandish finish on their car, buying up some exotic mansion or starting a sports team collection. Now, there’s a new way rich people can prove their might and it’s by buying an ex-navy vessel that has been turned into a… Read more…

Vapes, chargers, and other ‘invisible’ e-waste are a 9-million-ton problem Single-use disgarded vapes in a Lidl, Recycling Bin on May 4,2023 in London, England. | Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images“Invisible” e-waste — from disposable vapes to toys and tangles of cables — is piling up and robbing supply chains of valuable materials. A new analysis counts up all the small electronics people often don’t recognize as e-w…

US Sends Ukraine 1.1 Million Rounds of Ammunition Seized from Iran The military transferred rounds for machine guns that it said had been bound for Yemen.

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Pepper Ann was one in a million So I found this animated series on Disney Plus called Pepper Ann thought it looked interesting watched it just finished it (can’t get to sleep) and man this is easily one of my new favorite shows I wish I saw this as a kid submitted by /u/Helloimafanoffiction

The Time It Rained for Two Million Years submitted by /u/Ok_Schedule4239

It Will Take Another $2 Million To Get This $1.9 Million Wrecked Ferrari Back On The Road Another Monterey Week is in the books, with high-end auctioned autos going home to new owners. One in particular caught the eye of attendees, this incredibly rare, and incredibly wrecked, 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial Spider Series I which sold for $1,875,000. Read more…

Ukraine War Casualties Near Half a Million, U.S. Officials Say Ukraine and Russia have lost a staggering number of troops as Kyiv’s counteroffensive drags on. A lack of medical care has added to the toll.

Spotify reportedly has a $38 million white noise problem Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The VergeSpotify is spending a lot of money on podcasts that don’t actually involve any talking. That’s according to a report from Bloomberg, which states the company could increase its annual gross profit by a whopping $38 million if it steers users away from so-called white noise podcasts. These kinds of podcas…

Million dollar idea How about camera manufacturers actually put the shutter count on the camera? There are 10,000 other pieces of information. After that, they can tell frozen pizza makers to put the instructions on the top of the package rather than on the bottom. submitted by /u/Consistent-Way-2018

Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Ryan Reynolds, Meryl Streep and More Donate $1 Million Each To SAG-AFTRA Foundation To Aid Fellow Performers During Dual Strikes; Foundation Has Raised Over $15 Million submitted by /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

LPT – The odds of winning the lottery is ~1 in 292 million. The odds of being in a plane crash is ~1 in 11 million. You have a better chance of “hitting big” by purchasing a multi million dollar policy for anyone you know that will be travelling on a plane. submitted by /u/esobofh

New Jersey School to Pay $9.1 Million to Settle Suit Over Student’s Suicide After Mallory Grossman took her own life at age 12, her parents accused her New Jersey school district of failing to respond to accusations of bullying.

Sony has sold 40 million PS5s Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeSony announced it has sold over 40 million PlayStation 5 consoles despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues. Unlike the press release shared when the PS5 crossed 10 million units sold as of July 2021, Sony didn’t call its flagship console out as the “fastest-selling console in the hi…

Spotify now has 220 million paying subscribers Nick Barclay / The VergeSpotify had 220 million Premium subscribers and 551 million monthly active users as of June 30th, the company announced today in its latest earnings report. That represents a 27 and 17 percent increase, respectively, compared to the same period last year and is above its outlook released last quarter. But while listener n…

Netflix Gains Six Million Subscribers After Password Sharing Crackdown Netflix earlier this year began cracking down on password sharing in the United States and other countries, and the effort has been successful, the company said today. Netflix gained 5.9 million new global subscribers in the second quarter of 2023, including more than one million in the U.S. and Canada, according to its most recent earnings repo…

Amazon says more than 375 million items sold during Prime Day, up from 300 million last year Amazon called the first 24 hours of Prime Day the “single largest sales day in company history,” but it did not disclose total sales.

Nikki Haley Raises $7.3 Million, With More in an Allied Super PAC The amount showed Ms. Haley’s strength with small donors, but fell well below numbers broadcast by her leading Republican presidential rivals, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.

Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users Illustration: The VergeInstagram’s new Threads app has already surpassed 100 million users, meaning it reached the milestone dramatically faster than even ChatGPT. OpenAI’s chatbot passed the mark after two months, but Threads, which only launched on Wednesday, got there in a matter of days. Threads proved to be an early hit almost immediately. …

Threads already has over 95 million posts Threads compose window and photo picker on iOS. | Image: MetaInstagram’s new Threads app seems like it could be a hit. Mark Zuckerberg said that the app has more than 30 million signups as of Thursday morning, and people who are checking it out are posting… er, threading… a lot, too. According to internal data I’ve seen, users have already p…