(Especially pictures) Juan Medina first considered the idea for his new startup in 2003 after his father’s death when his wife asked him to tell a story about his father, and Medina realized he hadn’t known him that well. Stories, jokes, recipes, and more were either lost or scattered among various friends and family, Medina … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript Ida Paralyzes the New York City Area The remnants of Hurricane Ida caused flash flooding and a number of deaths and disrupted transit across parts of New York and New Jersey. Look! The remnants of Hurricane Ida caused flash flooding and a number of deaths … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: VideoHurricane Ida battered much of the Louisiana coast, with extreme flooding and damage to homes and businesses. Drone footage shows the extent of the cleanup in the area surrounding New Orleans.CreditCredit…Johnny Milano for The New York Times Entergy, Louisiana’s largest utility, announced early Wednesday that it had restored electricity … Read more
Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a press conference at a meeting with economic and financial organizations in Berlin at the Federal Chancellery on August 26th (Clemens Bilan – Pool / Getty Images) Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that those who do not yet have access to evacuation flights from Kabul will not be forgotten, adding … Read more
Twitter is rolling out several optimizations to its direct messaging functionality, with the improvements expected to be rolled out in the coming weeks. To get started, you can now share the same tweet with up to 20 different accounts separately. As the company points out, this is an improvement that should result in less accidental … Read more
NASA has come one step closer to building lunar and Mars colonies from the earth of the celestial bodies. Universe Today notes that NASA’s latest replenishment mission to the International Space Station included a machine designed to demonstrate the 3D printing of regolith (i.e., loose earth or rock) on the moon and similar alien surfaces. … Read more
With the introduction of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 series and the new Wear OS version from Google, Spotify has introduced a significant update to its Wear OS app, the company said. Much like a feature added to the Apple Watch app last May, the updated Wear OS app from Spotify lets you stream and download … Read more
Logitech has introduced some new wireless (and wired) earbuds with some unique features for business people. The key product is the Zone True Wireless Earbuds, which the company says will be the first to be certified by the three major video conferencing platforms: Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Another unique feature is support not … Read more
A booster of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine greatly expands protection, as a new study by the companies shows as the number of cases in the US has been rising for weeks and the rate of hospital admissions has started to rise. While the companies plan to submit the data to the Food and Drug … Read more
(Nathan Myhrvold Photo / The Cooking Lab) If you think New York is a blast as the best pizza town in the United States, then fuggedaboutit! According to Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya, co-authors of the upcoming Modernist Pizza, Portland, Oregon makes the best pizzas. Bloomberg reported this week that the authors came to this … Read more