This week’s best beauty Instagrams centered on self-love, from glamorous selfies to confidence on the (tabled) courts. For a walk on AmFAR‘s storied red carpet, Ashley Graham pulled out all the stops, her trio of shares showcasing a curled updo—worn tossed to one side as a homage to Old Hollywood—a feline flick of liner, and diamond-encrusted accessories that […]

A Russian airliner has crashed after leaving Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, killing all 65 passengers and six crew on board. The Saratov Airlines jet vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow. The cause of crash is unclear. Investigators and emergency crews are working at the […]

Who and where • Stephanie Mertz of St. Charles (left) with her brother-in-law, sister and niece Steve, Nancy and Jacqueline Benz of Chesterfield, in Mont Saint-Michel, France.  The trip • In late spring, Stephanie traveled to Spain to pick up her niece from a semester of studying abroad in Barcelona. She then met her sister […]

Plan your week in entertainment with these highlights and pop-culture milestones: TV Tune in: Not in the mood for the Olympics but enjoy a good competition? We have just the thing when The Bachelor Winter Games premieres Tuesday at 8 ET/PT. The four-episode series will pit contestants from international editions of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette against each other in athletics and dating. DVD/BLU-RAY View: The […]

Even if bitcoin and the cryptocurrency trend turns out to be a massive bubble, the technology that supports the new sector may be here to stay. Blockchain technology has already seen many broad applications in areas separate from cryptocurrency, according to a report by CoinSpeaker. (See also: 6 …

Regulators and investors alike are just beginning to understand what cryptocurrency is, says Jamie Smith, president of the Global Blockchain Business Council. The organization helps regulators understand blockchain technology and other cryptocurrencies. “What concerns me is that there are so many regulators, not just in the United States, but all over the world, who are just waking […]

Gaurav Sharma , Contributor I cover commodities, mostly oil & gas, often debunking risk premiums. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. One of Asia's biggest digital currency exchanges – Coincheck – has admitted the loss of around $534m worth of cryptocurrency following an …

Near the entrance to the Palace of Fine Arts, a woman was handing out fliers promoting the initial coin offering for RecordGram, a project that’s aiming to put song rights on the blockchain. She was pitching to dozens of people who were trying to get into the Blockchain Connect Conference, but were held up because they […]

I almost hesitate to write the name out of sheer exhaustion at its ubiquity—but, deep breath, here it goes: cryptocurrency. Are you as sick of hearing about it as I was just a few weeks ago, when explanations of it—usually centered around Bitcoin—along with breathless narratives of its life-changing, bank-account-invigorating wonderments, popped up everywhere I turned […]

For instance, a new blockchain-based media startup, Civil, aims to reinvigorate open journalism. Civil utilizes the key capabilities of blockchain technology to improve transparency and use software-based, rather than human-centric, governance mechanisms to ensure adherence to journalistic integrity …