Author: KnowledgeHippo

Despite being one of the most sought-after residential neighborhoods in Manhattan, TriBeCa has long lacked many cool places to stay. That changed this month when London-based Firmdale Hotels opened its third New York property, the 57-room Warren Street Hotel. However, unlike the red brick structures that surround it, this building is painted a bright cerulean. TriBeCa offers just the right mix of “artists, designers, families and a sprinkling of Hollywood glamour,” says Kit Kemp, co-founder and creative director of Firmdale, whose interior design studio also has its own line of furniture and accessories. “We wanted to make something that contributed…

Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday that electric generators were cut and all power was lost at a major Gaza hospital that Israeli forces stormed a day earlier, killing three oxygen-dependent patients.Gaza’s health ministry said in Facebook posts that the Israeli military was in control of the hospital, the Nasser Medical Complex, but did not say how or why the generators were stopped. The claims could not be independently verified. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The Israeli army pushed into the Nasser compound in the southern city of Khan Younis in the early hours…

It’s hard to get into Harvard, even if you’ve done it before.Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, and Bill Ackman, head of hedge fund Pershing Square, have discovered as much in their failed push to bring dissident candidates to Harvard’s Board of Overseers, one of the university’s two governing bodies.The candidates — a slate of four backed by Mr. Ackman and one candidate backed by Mr. Zuckerberg — said on Friday they had not collected enough signatures to get on the April ballot for the board election.”We’re disappointed, but we really appreciate all the support,” Zoe Bedell, an assistant U.S.…

In the latest sign of a growing backlash within corporate America against the 88-year-old federal agency that enforces labor rights, Amazon argued in a legal filing Thursday that the National Labor Relations Board was unconstitutional.The move followed a similar argument by SpaceX, the rocket company founded and run by Elon Musk, in a legal complaint in January, and by Trader Joe’s during a labor board hearing a few weeks later.The labor board consists of a prosecutorial arm, which issues complaints against employers or unions deemed to have violated federally protected labor rights. administrative judges, who hear complaints; and a five-member…

South Korea’s government has unleashed a wave of panic across the internet industry: the country’s antitrust regulator said it would introduce the toughest competition law outside of Europe, curbing the influence of big tech companies.The Korea Fair Trade Commission, backed by Chairman Yoon Suk Yeol, said in December it planned to submit a proposal under the Digital Markets Act of 2022, the European Union’s landmark law to rein in US tech giants. This bill also seemed to target South Korea’s internet conglomerates just as much as the Alphabets, Apples and Metas of the world.The commission said the law would designate…

As women have started having babies later in life, the number of patients undergoing IVF treatment has increased significantly.Medical care can be life-changing, but it also comes at a price, as some couples go deep into debt to pay for medical care that health insurance doesn’t always cover. Some research has questioned the effectiveness of newer aspects of fertility treatment, such as genetic screening, and some patients have filed lawsuits alleging that faulty chemicals destroyed their embryos. Private equity firms, seeing the industry’s rapid growth, have bought some of the country’s largest fertility clinics.The New York Times is looking to…

I shower and wash my face with La Roche-Posay Toleriane Dermo Milky Cleanser. I like to use body washes that I bring back from my travels to remind me of those trips: I have this Kokum Almond Shower Cleansing Oil that I got on a trip to India that smells so good. Because I dye my hair, I’m quite thirsty — I use L’Oréal Professionnel purple shampoo to keep the yellow out and Davines Oi Conditioner. I always use Davines Minu Hair Serum when I blow dry my hair and finish with Oi Oil.La Prairie’s Skin Caviar Liquid Lift wakes…

Greece was expected to legalize same-sex marriage and equal parenting rights for same-sex couples on Thursday, as lawmakers considered a bill that has divided Greek society and drawn fierce opposition from the country’s powerful Orthodox Church.Although Greece would be the 16th country in the European Union to allow same-sex marriage, it would be the first Orthodox Christian nation to pass such a law. The country extended civil partnerships to same-sex couples in 2015, but did not extend equal parental rights at the time.Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had pledged to pass the new measures after his landslide re-election last year. He…

Airbus said on Thursday it would increase deliveries of some of the world’s most sought-after planes this year, strengthening its position as the biggest plane maker and pulling ahead of Boeing as its US rival focuses on the fallout from a major security crisis that includes The 737 Max series of aircraft.Airbus, the European aerospace giant, plans to deliver around 800 jets to customers this year, including the popular single-aisle A320neo, the main competitor to the 737 Max. It delivered 735 planes last year, more than it had originally targeted. This year’s push is meant to respond to what Guillaume…

In April, a New York-based company called Runway AI unveiled technology that allows people to create videos, like a cow at a birthday party or a dog chatting on a smartphone, simply by typing a sentence into a box on a computer screen.The four-second videos were blurry, choppy, distorted and annoying. But it was a clear sign that AI technologies would create increasingly compelling videos in the coming months and years.Just 10 months later, San Francisco start-up OpenAI unveiled a similar system that creates videos that look like they’ve come straight out of a Hollywood movie. One demonstration included short…