Posts by Grazia British
Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards
[ad_1] Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. Every year, ahead of Oscar night, the film critic Richard Brody joins the New Yorker Radio Hour to discuss his picks for the year’s best…
Read MoreWendy’s is closing hundreds of U.S. restaurants as domestic sales slide
[ad_1] Wendy’s is moving ahead with its plans to close hundreds of restaurants, amounting to between 5% and 6% of its total stores in the U.S., according to its fourth-quarter earnings report. Published on February 13, the report shows that Wendy’s domestic business is lagging behind its international efforts. Total same-store sales fell 10.1% over…
Read MoreThis New York bar hosted an AI dating pop-up where singles matched with chatbots for Valentine’s Day
[ad_1] A quarter of adults younger than 30 say they’ve used AI for companionship, according to Associated Press-NORC polling. The one thing missing? Somewhere to take your AI valentine on a date. Ahead of Saint Valentine’s Day on February 14, EVA AI decided to solve that problem. The app—which allows users to text or, more…
Read MoreBen Affleck has one word for AI-generated creative writing. His take on LLMs is going viral
[ad_1] Could a film industry entirely crafted from AI ever exist? Social media is abuzz with movie scenes made with Seedance 2.0, the latest tech in AI video generation, including everything from a fight scene between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise to an alternate ending for The Lord of the Rings. The tech’s proponents predict…
Read MoreDutch Bros is growing fast. Here’s why its expansion plans matter more than its stock bump
[ad_1] Starbucks competitor Dutch Bros saw its stock price rise in premarket trading on Friday after the coffee chain posted double-digit revenue growth in its most recent quarter. However, shares were flat as of late morning, with the stock (NYSE: BROS) hovering at just over $50 a share. Perhaps even more important for the stock—and…
Read MoreInflation measure drops to a nearly 5-year low
[ad_1] A key measure of inflation fell to nearly a five-year low last month as apartment rental price growth slowed and gas prices fell, offering some relief to Americans grappling with the sharp cost increases of the past five years. Inflation dropped to 2.4% in January compared with a year earlier, down from 2.7% in December and…
Read MoreALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.
[ad_1] Darling’s last stage performance was over two years ago. By that point, he had already lost the ability to stand and play his instruments and was struggling to sing or speak. But recently, he was able to re-create his lost voice using an AI tool trained on snippets of old audio recordings. Another AI…
Read MoreThe Download: an exclusive chat with Jim O’Neill, and the surprising truth about heists
[ad_1] Over the past year, Jim O’Neill has become one of the most powerful people in public health. As the US deputy health secretary, he holds two roles at the top of the country’s federal health and science agencies. He oversees a department with a budget of over a trillion dollars. And he signed the…
Read MoreThe Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
[ad_1] In touring the history of writerly spaces, “The Writer’s Room” elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, John Keats, and other luminaries. It finds that, a lot of the time, the quest for the perfect room is self-defeating: tormented by sounds in his neighborhood (among them a neighbor’s rooster),…
Read MoreThe myth of the high-tech heist
[ad_1] The low-tech Louvre maneuvers were in keeping with what heist research long ago concluded. In 2014 US nuclear weapons researchers at Sandia National Laboratories took a detour into this demimonde, producing a 100-page report called “The Perfect Heist: Recipes from Around the World.” The scientists were worried someone might try to steal a nuke…
Read MoreCharli XCX Misses the Moment
[ad_1] Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Once the fervor around Charli XCX’s 2024 album “brat” had cooled, the singer was approached to make a documentary about the tour—a practice that’s been embraced by the likes of Taylor Swift and…
Read MoreWhat a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music
[ad_1] People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. [ad_2] Source link
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