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How architecture became one of Ukraine’s essential defenses

How architecture became one of Ukraine’s essential defenses

Associated media - Linked media The Ukrainian government and army have already started major reconstruction projects. Bucha and Irpin, the devastated suburbs of Kiev, have become important construction sites. Architect Norman Foster has been hired for a new master plan for Kharkiv, whose extraordinary density of modern architecture is exposed to almost daily bombing. But this exhibition continues to focus on informal, bottom-up efforts in Ukrainian architecture. It showcases the work of architects inside and outside the country, but also some of Ukraine’s most notable artists, not to mention the ravers and DJs from Kiev’s world-leading electronic music scene, who…
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How to make digital photos from your smartphone look old

How to make digital photos from your smartphone look old

Related media - Linked media Like the allure of vinyl records, classic video games, and even the early Internet, the fascination with old photographic standards like point-and-shoot cameras or 35-millimeter film persists, even in people too young to remember when that equipment was state of the art. The appeal of “vintage” photography goes beyond nostalgia and Instagram filters, judging by the sheer number of apps designed to emulate the film, lenses, and visual quirks of pre-digital photos and films. Despite the irony of using a high-end smartphone’s camera to produce imperfect images that appear oversaturated, jittery, low-contrast, unfiltered, or otherwise…
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Anthony O’Reilly, the flamboyant Irish tycoon who ran Heinz, has died at 88

Anthony O’Reilly, the flamboyant Irish tycoon who ran Heinz, has died at 88

Linked media - Connected media Anthony J.F. O’Reilly, a charming, ambitious, Irish-born former president of the H.J. Heinz Company, who also owned newspapers, luxury brands, and trophy houses in France and the Bahamas, only to lose nearly everything in his eighth decade, died on 18 May in Dublin. He was 88 years old. The Irish Times and other Irish newspapers, citing a family spokesperson, said he died in hospital. No cause was given. From his earliest days, Mr. O’Reilly, known as Tony, showed an embarrassment about gifts. He was a top-flight rugby player while still a teenager: the “red-haired pin-up…
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Israeli Defense Minister holds talks in Washington on next phase of war

Israeli Defense Minister holds talks in Washington on next phase of war

Related media - Associated media Last week, Israeli soldiers adjusted the tracks of a tank near the Gaza border in southern Israel.Credit…Jack Guez/Agency France-Presse — Getty Images The intense phase of Israel’s war against Hamas “is coming to an end,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Sunday evening interview on Israeli television, although he stressed that this does not mean the conflict is coming to an end.After the operation in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city and the latest hub of Israel’s ground offensive, the prime minister said, Israel will continue to “mow the lawn” – a term long used in…
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The future of Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services

The future of Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services

Associated media - Associated media Ted Sarandos, 59, co-chief executive of Netflix, worked his way up through the now-defunct DVD industry before going straight to Netflix when the company was still renting DVDs by mail. Mike Hopkins, 55, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, was steeped in digital as chief executive of Hulu, the pioneering streaming service owned by Disney, Fox and NBCU, before joining Sony as head of its television unit in 2017. He came to Amazon in 2020 and reports to the company’s chief executive, Andy Jassy, 56, who has no professional background in entertainment. Over…
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A strange rock in a box is linked to a shooting star that fell 54 years ago

A strange rock in a box is linked to a shooting star that fell 54 years ago

Linked media - Linked media She and her team hunted down image negatives containing fireballs stored at the German Aerospace Center in Augsburg. After digitizing the images, the researchers estimated various parameters related to the incoming meteors, such as their masses, shapes, speeds and entry angles. Using this data, the researchers identified a dozen events that most likely produced sizable meteorites. Before 1976 only three had occurred. The team reconstructed the trajectory of each of those three fireballs and calculated where the meteorites would most likely be found. There was only one match to the location where the Ischgl meteorite…
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Biden proposes eliminating medical debt from credit reports

Biden proposes eliminating medical debt from credit reports

Related media - Associated media That has changed significantly in recent years, as the three national credit reporting agencies – TransUnion, Equifax and Experian – have eliminated much of that debt from credit reports. Over the past two years, they have stopped reporting debts under $500 and debts less than a year in collections. According to a recent study by the Urban Institute, these changes have erased medical debt from the credit reports of millions of Americans. The percentage of Americans with unpaid healthcare bills on their credit reports dropped from 12% in August 2022 to 5% in August 2023.…
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Israel says it will reduce fighting in southern Gaza

Israel says it will reduce fighting in southern Gaza

Connected media - Linked media The announcement came seemingly out of the blue on Sunday, when it was first publicized across the Israeli army’s English- and Arabic-language channels: The army would “pause” daylight fighting along a key humanitarian aid corridor in southern Gaza until further notice.Amid some immediate confusion about the scope of the pause, a clarification quickly followed, this time in Hebrew and apparently for domestic use. The change does not mean a cessation of fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, the statement said, adding that the campaign in the southernmost city of Rafah continues. Military officials said the…
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Chinese restaurants move to Hong Kong

Chinese restaurants move to Hong Kong

Connected media - Associated media In the Shek Tong Tsui area, where Return Home Hunan opened in May, many of the brightly colored restaurants – once mainstays of the neighborhood – had recently closed their doors. A restaurant that served cheap noodles and milk tea was gone, as was a restaurant where retirees gathered to eat dim sum and catch up on the day’s news. “The restaurant business is hard work,” said Roy Tse, the owner of a local restaurant that sold lunch rice dishes once popular among office workers in Hong Kong’s Taikoo Shing business district. There are fewer…
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