Max Factor

A Los Angeles Magazine column revisits the Max Factor beauty gadgets once marketed to home users, asking what became of them. Max Factor, the Hollywood-founded makeup brand, famously sold quirky electric beauty devices in past decades, from mascara applicators to facial massagers. The piece traces their history and disappearance, tapping into nostalgia for vintage beauty technology and curiosity about why such inventions never endured.

Red Bull delivered a standout pace in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix despite Max Verstappen encountering a qualifying problem earlier in the weekend, prompting analysis of how the team recovered its speed. Motorsport.com examines the technical and strategic factors that allowed the squad to rebound from the Saturday setback, a story drawing attention from Formula 1 fans following the race in Baku.

Max Verstappen says the 0.196-second finishing gap between himself and George Russell at the Baku City Grand Prix does not fully reflect how the race unfolded. The Red Bull driver argues the small margin at the line obscures factors such as pace, tyre condition and track position during the closing laps. His comments have drawn discussion among fans and pundits about whether the timing gap tells the real story of the battle.