Photo Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in “Game of Thrones.” Credit Macall B. Polay/HBO Plagued by leaks during its recently concluded seventh season, “Game of Thrones” is resorting to an old TV trick to preserve secrecy about next season’s series finale. The producers will shoot several different endings of the final episode, Casey …

Investor fear of retail has turned to despair, with bets against the sector reaching the highest level since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Short interest — a measure of how many shares are being sold short compared to the total “float,” or shares outstanding — has reached a post-financial crisis …

Speculative collecting, artist-poaching and frothy press coverage were as much signs of the times as Bellamy’s thrift-store outfits, afternoon benders and unheated Lower East Side apartments. The Green Gallery would not have been in business without the backing of the taxi magnate Robert Scull and his wife, Ethel, who would …

Tami Chappell | Reuters Credit reporting company Equifax corporate offices are pictured in Atlanta, Georgia, September 8, 2017. The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it is investigating the data breach at Equifax that exposed the personal information of 143 million people. News of the investigation sent Equifax’s stock sinking. “The …

Source: Imperial College London Under the influence of LSD, the brain’s visual cortex has increased connectivity with other brain regions (right) than when imaged under placebo (left). For example, a team of researchers in the U.K. last year became the first ever to produce images of the human brain on …

Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee uses a smartphone during a demonstration of purchasing bitcoin from a bitcoin automated teller machine in Tokyo, Japan. Bitcoin prices fell about 7 percent on Thursday after one of the biggest exchanges in China said it will shut down its operation. …

Photo Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje in Emanuele Della Valle’s debut feature. Credit Gusmano Cesaretti/Abramorama The moody ambience of the beachside noir “Wetlands” is almost enough to make you want to plan an off-season visit to Atlantic City, near where it is set, or to believe the film’s dramatic devices and occasionally arch …

Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Sabrina Ellis, Director of Product Management at Google, speaks about the new Pixel phone during the presentation of new Google hardware in San Francisco, California, U.S. October 4, 2016. Tired of hearing about the iPhone X? Google clearly is, as the Mountain View company has just …

Bloomberg | Getty Images A pedestrian passes in front of signage displayed outside Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. headquarters in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Rupert Murdoch’s planned $15 billion takeover of European broadcaster Sky will be referred to regulators over concerns about broadcasting standards, Britain’s Culture and …

Gianluca Colla | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Swiss National Bank (SNB), Switzerland’s central bank, in Bern, Switzerland, on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. “The Swiss franc nevertheless remains highly valued, and the situation on the foreign exchange market is still fragile,” the SNB said in a statement after its quarterly …