Will Historic Job Growth Bring an End to the “Vibecession”? Fermin Fletcher, 2024-04-092024-04-09 During the past year, the economy has added 2.9 million jobs, and since Biden came to office it has added 15.2 million jobs. All told, there are now about 5.8 million more Americans at work than there were immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic started. And for those who are still… Continue Reading
Jessica Tisch, the Ex-N.Y.P.D. Official Trying to Tame New York’s Trash Fermin Fletcher, 2024-04-092024-04-09 Tisch believes that she and her aides have developed a plan that will clean up New York City. It’s a program they refer to, grandly, as the Trash Revolution. Bags off the sidewalks. Clean highways. Citywide organic-waste pickup. Beefed-up enforcement of sanitary laws. Tisch has committed her department to implementing… Continue Reading
Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religious Studies Fermin Fletcher, 2024-04-092024-04-09 In 2016, Rogers was “discovered”—though the word almost feels too intentional—by the polymath hitmaker Pharrell Williams, while she was attending New York University. Williams visited one of Rogers’s classes at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, a program within the Tisch School of the Arts; he was an artist-in-residence… Continue Reading
● Battling Under a Canopy of Russian and Ukrainian Drones Fermin Fletcher, 2024-04-092024-04-09 “Grenades! Grenades!” Perun screamed. “More! ” They needed to hit the cellar entrance. Kyivstar’s companion had left him behind and was walking there alone. His call sign was Wolf. He was a welder from a rural village in western Ukraine who, when the war started, had been working in the… Continue Reading
Park Chan-wook Gets the Picture He Wants Fermin Fletcher, 2024-04-092024-04-09 Park was sitting nearby, in a shaded corner that served, for the day, as video village, the spot on a film set where the production team gathers around monitors to review each take. At sixty, Park, who is Korean, has a mop of silver hair and an obscurely regal demeanor…. Continue Reading
Google’s new Gemini AI can make videos and live images — and it’s being pitched to businesses Fermin Fletcher, 2024-04-092024-04-09 It’s no secret that Google’s flagship AI chatbot Gemini has had some problems. Its production of historically inaccurate images forced Google parent Alphabet to temporarily suspend the product earlier this year. But Google is trying to turn the page on its early AI mishaps. Keynote speakers at the tech giant’s… Continue Reading
Here’s what happens when a microwave is on with the door open Fermin Fletcher, 2024-04-092024-04-09 People have always been dubious about the safety of microwave ovens. I came across a microwave that kept whirring and spinning even with the door wide open – it simply wouldn’t turn off. The microwave was promptly kicked to the curb, but I started to wonder: should I be concerned… Continue Reading
● Norfolk Southern has reached a $600 million settlement in the disastrous East Palestine derailment Fermin Fletcher, 2024-04-092024-04-09 Norfolk Southern is going to pay out $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement following the disastrous February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. That may sound like a lot of money, but some worry that it isn’t nearly enough to cover all of the long-term health issues that… Continue Reading
Let’s talk about those bright red dots during the total solar eclipse Fermin Fletcher, 2024-04-092024-04-09 The April 8 total solar eclipse, showing a pronounced prominence at bottom. To observers on the ground, the prominences appeared as red dots along the perimeter of the eclipse.Image: paramsach (Fair Use) We were hoping for something like this to happen. For a brief moment Monday, the Sun waved to… Continue Reading
● Target’s new self-checkout tech will warn you if you forgot to scan something Fermin Fletcher, 2024-04-092024-04-09 In 2023, Target said it would close nine stores in four states due to losses from rising retail theft.Image: Michael Nagle (Getty Images) Target is on a retail zigzag. The retail giant plans to introduce fresh technology at its self-checkout kiosks to try to impede theft across its U.S. stores…. Continue Reading