Photo-Illustration: Facebook Among Meta’s many resolutions for the new year — making augmented reality and the metaverse happen, positioning itself to absorb TikTok refugees if the app gets banned, cracking open Apple’s platforms to get more access to user data, and attriting its competition in artificial intelligence with breathtaking spending — one stands out as plain […]
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Photo: Mauricio Paiz/Alamy Stock Photo If you were one of the estimated 40 million people who picked up a pickleball paddle in the United States in 2024 and wanted to catch a little inspiration by watching its top athletes dink their way to glory, you might have ventured to Dallas, Texas, to attend the Lapiplasty®
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Photo: Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images The day after Christmas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it had identified new mutations to the H5N1 bird-flu virus in a “severely ill” patient in Louisiana. Health workers who swabbed the patient’s throat found mutations that help H5N1 infect the upper respiratory tract, which could potentially make
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“Simply put, we cannot adopt our way out of this crisis. It requires the facilitation of affordable, accessible veterinary care, and it demands that New York City officials assume their share of responsibility for overpopulation control as mandated by city code.” Violet Mendelsund/Mayoral Photo Office A cat adoption event at City Hall in 2022. CityViews
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In the late 1980s, Geoffrey Hinton was a few years into teaching at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., when he became increasingly troubled about the state of the nation he had left his home country of England for a decade prior. Hinton took issue with Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy, particularly the mining of harbors
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In the weeks before a raging fire killed journalist Fazil Khan, tenants throughout his building complained to the landlord that men living in the unit where the fire broke out had been routinely charging e-bike batteries inside their apartment, an investigation by THE CITY has found. One former tenant of the six-story building at 2
This fall, City Limits worked with more than two dozen reporting interns from high schools across New York City, who learned the ins and outs of public service journalism. Their stories, examining different aspects of the city’s housing crisis, will be published in the coming weeks. Fran Reilly City Limits’ fall 2024 youth reporting interns
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s yearly nationwide census, based on data collected in January 2024, counted 771,480 people experiencing homelessness—up 18 percent from 2023. Evening of November 9, 2021, Tents on 7th Street on the South side of Tompkins Square Park in the East Village, Manhattan The federal government’s latest assessment of
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Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Last week, while Americans were busy celebrating the holidays with their families, a contentious online rift emerged among the MAGA faithful after Donald Trump’s tech-world allies, led by billionaire Elon Musk, began pushing back on attacks on highly skilled foreign tech workers by the movement’s nativist wing. By the weekend, Trump
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Photo: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg/Getty Images The Jeju Air 737 crash in South Korea on Sunday that killed all but two of the people onboard was in many respects as baffling as it was tragic. Given the scant information currently available, it’s hard even to piece together a coherent picture of what happened. “There’s a lot more
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