Rachel Maddow is teaching her to use a TelePrompTer, so far with mixed results. Mika Brzezinski offered tips on pinning down squirrelly guests. Nicolle Wallace invited her to editorial meetings and Andrea Mitchell is tutoring her on interviewing techniques. Jen Psaki spent the last two decades jousting with journalists. She’s about to find out what …
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Several bidders have emerged to buy the English soccer club, promising to pay billions to own a big piece of the world’s most popular sport. How much is this club worth?Dave Thompson/Associated Press The big money in pro soccer While American sports teams have been skyrocketing in valuation — witness the $4.65 billion that the …
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The European Union has strict rules about refunds for flight cancellations and delays, but the German airline has racked up complaints about its willingness to make things right. Our columnist faces down the bureaucracy. Dear Tripped Up, Last May, my wife and I were headed from New York to Valencia, Spain, via Munich, when the …
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AUSTIN, Texas — In the early half of the 20th century, South Congress Avenue served as a main conduit in Austin, connecting the Texas Capitol building downtown to the city’s growing south side across the Colorado River. But in the early 1960s, the opening of Interstate 35 redirected traffic and siphoned off commerce, and South …
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AUSTIN, Texas — In the early half of the 20th century, South Congress Avenue served as a main conduit in Austin, connecting the Texas Capitol building downtown to the city’s growing south side across the Colorado River. But in the early 1960s, the opening of Interstate 35 redirected traffic and siphoned off commerce, and South …
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The FTX founder joined Jane Street Capital not to learn about controlling risk, which is its focus, but because the tenets of a philanthropic movement drew him there. To close observers of Wall Street, the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried carried a curious twist: The man whose unbridled recklessness may have led to one of the …
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He combined linguistics, cognitive science and computing with the goal of “trying to understand the nature of the human mind.” Roger C. Schank, a scientist who made influential contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and then, as an academic, author and entrepreneur, focused on how people learn, died on Jan. 29 in Shelburne, Vt. …
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He combined linguistics, cognitive science and computing with the goal of “trying to understand the nature of the human mind.” Roger C. Schank, a scientist who made influential contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and then, as an academic, author and entrepreneur, focused on how people learn, died on Jan. 29 in Shelburne, Vt. …
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He combined linguistics, cognitive science and computing with the goal of “trying to understand the nature of the human mind.” Roger C. Schank, a scientist who made influential contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and then, as an academic, author and entrepreneur, focused on how people learn, died on Jan. 29 in Shelburne, Vt. …
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Heather Rendulic was 23 when she suffered a stroke that disabled her left side. Ten years later, her left arm and hand remain so impaired that she cannot tie her shoes, type with two hands or cut her own food. But for an extraordinary month, while participating in an innovative study, she suddenly was able …
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Bridgewater’s founder, Ray Dalio, retired last year after months of negotiations that guaranteed him a gigantic exit package. When Ray Dalio, the multibillionaire founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, announced his retirement in October, both he and the firm he founded more than four decades ago treated the moment as celebratory. Mr. …
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An enormous pyramid was long a reminder of a brutal regime and decades of disappointments. Now, it’s a symbol of a city aspiring to be the high-tech “Tel Aviv of the Balkans.” TIRANA, Albania — Built in the 1980s to commemorate a dead tyrant in Pharaonic style, the concrete and glass pyramid in the center …
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A one-time doorman and bus driver, he became an assistant secretary of labor but fell short of his goal of being elected head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Thomas R. Donahue, the second in command to Lane Kirkland, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for 16 years, and briefly his interim successor in an era of relentless union membership …
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A one-time doorman and bus driver, he became an assistant secretary of labor but fell short of his goal of being elected head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Thomas R. Donahue, the second in command to Lane Kirkland, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for 16 years, and briefly his interim successor in an era of relentless union membership …
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Giacomo Bagnara What’s Up? (Feb. 12-18) Reining In Microsoft’s Chatbot After an unsettling conversation between Bing’s new chatbot and Kevin Roose, a tech columnist for The New York Times, Microsoft is considering tweaks and guardrails for the A.I.-powered technology. In the exchanges, Mr. Roose’s questions about the rules guiding the operating system, its capabilities and …
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Despite the implosion of FTX and projections of a cryptocurrency winter, the metaverse real estate market is expected to grow by $5.37 billion by 2026. In March, Gabe Sierra, a contractor whose family has been in the construction business for more than 30 years, will take offers for his latest creation: an 11,000-square-foot mansion with …
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PepsiCo voluntarily recalled the beverages after glass was found in some of the bottles, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. More than 25,000 cases of a bottled Starbucks coffee drink were recalled after glass was found inside some of the bottles, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. PepsiCo, which produces the vanilla …
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Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. Scent Matters I work in a small office at a start-up. Some of my colleagues used to be in extremely senior positions at major companies. I’m in my …
Ubiquitous in many suburban neighborhoods, the devices have been slow to catch on in city apartments, but that is changing as New Yorkers warm to the technology. Q: I live in a small co-op building with just a few apartments per floor. My neighbor recently set up a video doorbell. If it’s anything like the …
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State and federal agencies have levied fines, brought new cases and issued policy statements to rein in freewheeling practices in recent weeks. Cryptocurrency executives hoped that 2023 would herald a new beginning after a year of disastrous setbacks. Instead, the industry has found itself on the receiving end of an aggressive government crackdown. Last month, …
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He used poker winnings to open a modest bakery in 1946 that grew into an artisanal dessert empire, tempting New Yorkers of all ages. William Greenberg Jr., a baked goods impresario whose fanciful cakes, butter cookies, brownies, Linzer tarts and sticky buns would exert a Proustian hold over generations of New Yorkers, died on Feb. …
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A nationwide injunction restrains the company from dismissing labor organizers and could help reinstate ousted workers more quickly. A federal judge in Michigan issued an injunction on Friday banning Starbucks from firing U.S. workers because they seek to form a union or engage in other collective activities. The move is the first nationwide judicial mandate …
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A nationwide injunction restrains the company from dismissing labor organizers and could help reinstate ousted workers more quickly. A federal judge in Michigan issued an injunction on Friday banning Starbucks from firing U.S. workers because they seek to form a union or engage in other collective activities. The move is the first nationwide judicial mandate …
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Bao Fan is the latest businessman in China to disappear, raising concerns that Beijing’s crackdown on the technology and financial industries will continue. Bao Fan, a renowned investment banker in China, has disappeared and is unreachable, raising concerns that Beijing’s crackdown on the country’s business elite is continuing. In a filing to the Hong Kong …
Don’t just look at what technology can do, look at what it helps people do to each other. Microsoft’s new Bing search engine using A.I. is demonstrated to media at their campus in Redmond, Washington in February.Ruth Fremson/The New York Times It is rare that I read something that is both bone-chillingly terrifying and genuinely …
The defendant in a widespread cryptocurrency fraud case has been living in a “garden of electronic devices,” the judge says. Tighter restrictions are ahead. Since his arrest two months ago, Samuel Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency executive, has been physically confined to the Palo Alto home of his parents, under the force of a $250 million …
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Microsoft’s investment in the technology has been a boon for the company’s stock, even as early users find the A.I.-powered system erratic. Microsoft’s early chatbot stumbles aren’t fazing investors.Ruth Fremson/The New York Times “Not ready for human contact”? Microsoft’s decision last month to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, makers of the chatbot sensation ChatGPT, has …
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The smartest tech you can buy right now might not be the latest phone or tablet, but rather the energy-efficient electric systems you need to power them. Now that Bluetooth speakers, Alexa home assistants and internet-connected refrigerators have become ubiquitous in our homes, it is a good time to ask a question: How should we …
Seth Kugel, who writes the Tripped Up column for The New York Times, offers readers travel advice and problem solving — including, once, a $17,000 refund. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Seth Kugel’s ideal afternoon — if travel to an …
The overdose reversal drug has been administered mostly by emergency responders and outreach workers. If the agency approves a nonprescription version, it could become as easily available as aspirin. Two federal panels of addiction experts on Wednesday unanimously recommended that Narcan, the overdose-reversing nasal spray, be made widely available without a prescription, a significant step …
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An Edward Durell Stone house in Montclair, a two-bedroom condominium in St. Paul and a 1928 Tudor Revival home in Kansas City. Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Lisa Kollberg Montclair, N.J. | $949,000 A …
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The deals are part of an ambitious overhaul by the Tata Group, which resumed control of the once-prestigious airline last year. An Indian airline has ordered a record 470 planes, worth more than $100 billion at list prices, from Boeing and Airbus, in a sign of the scale of the post-pandemic rebound in the aviation …
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With major highways running through it, the 38-square-mile township offers easy access to schools, shopping and medical care: ‘There’s something for everyone.’ When Stephen Foglia and his fiancée, JoAnne Crimeni, decided it was time to leave Brooklyn and put down roots, they headed south to New Jersey. Traveling through a number of areas they couldn’t …
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Rule No. 1: “You don’t have to just have a plain-Jane green plant.” But here’s what you do have to do — to find the right plant and maintain it. If only these houseplants could talk. It’s easy to imagine they’d be screaming their indignation at the wintertime perches we’ve assigned them — places of …
January was the third month of declines in the inflation rate, but the double-digit increase shows Britain’s cost-of-living crisis persisting. Britain’s inflation rate slowed for a third consecutive month in January, but the price of food kept rising strongly, exacerbating a cost-of-living crisis. Consumer prices rose 10.1 percent in January from a year earlier, the …
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The automaker cited a potential problem with the battery pack of the F-150 Lightning but said it was unaware of any incidents “in the field.” Ford Motor has stopped production and shipments of its electric pickup truck, the F-150 Lightning, while it looks into a potential problem with the vehicle’s battery pack. “As part of …
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If successful, the workers who help develop Tesla’s Autopilot driver-assistance system would be the first group at the company to organize. A group of workers at a Tesla factory in Buffalo began a campaign on Tuesday to form a union, saying they wanted better pay and benefits. If successful, the effort could establish the first …
The actor, author and activist Marlo Thomas, 85, lives with her husband, the venerable talk-show host Phil Donahue, and the couple’s golden retriever, Charlie, in a penthouse duplex with three exposures on the Upper East Side. “We got very lucky,” Ms. Thomas said. Original Source
The actor and author has a tableware collection for Williams-Sonoma, out just in time for Valentine’s Day. For an enthusiastic host, it wasn’t much of a stretch. The scene was set for a party at the Upper East Side apartment that Marlo Thomas shares with her husband, Phil Donahue. Easy-listening instrumental music filled the air; …
The Changing Online Language of Hearts Erik Carter How to show a heart — the universal symbol of love — has shifted on the internet over the years, driven by new technology. Sheera Frenkel, who reports on social media from San Francisco, watched dozens of videos on how to make <3 shapes for this article. …
