Author: KnowledgeHippo

Installed on vintage material at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, in chronological order, innovative Internet artist Auriea Harvey’s first career survey tells a story of mortality and survival.In the worlds of Harvey’s jewels, there are no heroes or villains, just people, lost and loved, caught in the slipstream of technology.Harvey, born in 1971 in Indianapolis, helped expand the horizons of digital art – utopias, games, collages and all. In the 1990s, he created boundary-pushing images with GIFs, Shockwave animation, and the HTML and JavaScript programming languages. Her lavish personal website, Entropy8.com, revamped for the show, won…

For much of the past four years, automakers and their dealers had so few cars to sell — and demand was so high — that they could command high prices. Those days are over and heavy discounts are starting to make a comeback.During the coronavirus pandemic, car production was slowed first by factory shutdowns and then by a global shortage of computer chips and other parts that lasted for years.With few vehicles in showrooms, automakers and dealers were able to remove most sales incentives, leaving consumers to pay full price. Some dealers added thousands of dollars to the manufacturer’s suggested…

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted Wednesday to update the Covid vaccine formula ahead of an anticipated fall vaccination campaign, now an annual step in trying to offer better protection against circulating versions of the virus.The unanimous vote by the 16 advisers recommends a formula aimed at fighting the JN.1 variant, which dominated infections in the United States in February, or a variant of it. In recent weeks, JN.1 has been overtaken by descendants known as KP.2 and KP.3.In the coming weeks, the FDA is expected to formally recommend an alternative target for vaccine manufacturers for the next…

In April, Princess Cruises told passengers it was canceling a scheduled stop in Santorini, Greece, citing traffic congestion. Four cruise ships were already expected to arrive on the same day in June, and if they joined, the ships would have brought about 17,000 visitors to an island of 15,500 people.In the Aegean, more than 1,000 islands fill the waters between Greece and Turkey and the coasts are dotted with impressive bays. Both countries saw record tourism last year, a boon for two fragile economies, but one that follows and in turn feeds frenzied growth that threatens local livelihoods, cultural heritage…

A US-made precision-guided bomb that homes in on specific targets and, ideally, limits civilian casualties, has been used in airstrikes in Gaza that have killed dozens of Palestinians, including women and children.The weapon, the GBU-39, or small diameter bomb, was used in an attack on a former United Nations school on Thursday and in an attack on May 26 in Rafah. In both cases, the Israeli military defended its actions, saying the strikes were aimed at militants using civilians as human shields. Gaza health authorities said civilians were also killed, with videos and photos of women and children among the…

A strike by University of California academic workers over the treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters was temporarily halted by a Southern California judge on Friday after the university argued the strike was causing “irreparable harm” to students.The temporary restraining order, issued by Orange County Superior Court Judge Randall J. Sherman, came as tens of thousands of UC students prepared for finals at the end of the spring semester. The judge’s order came in response to the public university system’s third attempt to force thousands of unionized assistant professors, teachers, researchers and other key workers back to work.Workers represented by United Auto…

The Biden administration on Friday strengthened vehicle fuel mileage standards, part of its strategy to transform the U.S. auto market into one dominated by electric vehicles that don’t emit planet-warming pollution.The new mileage standards announced by the Transportation Department are among several regulations the administration is using to encourage automakers to produce more electric vehicles. In April, the Environmental Protection Agency issued tough new limits on tailpipe pollution designed to ensure that the majority of new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States are all-electric or hybrid by 2032, from 7, 6 percent last year.In addition to…

Hunter Biden, the president’s son, is on trial in federal court for falsely claiming on a gun application that he did not use illegal drugs. Testimony from his ex-wife and ex-girlfriends describes his drug-fueled temper. his search for his dealer in the streets. his large cash withdrawals from the bank.Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau’s brother who was dating him in the fall of 2018 when the gun was purchased, spoke of his erratic behavior, possession of crack cocaine stones “the size of ping-pong balls or bigger, maybe. ” and how she frantically urged him to go to rehab. She,…

On two recent occasions, a foreign tourist entered Shoji Matsumoto’s barber shop, through a front door that creaks loudly when opened more than halfway, wanting a haircut.One was Italian and the other British. Mr. Matsumoto, who is 75 years old and does not speak any of their languages, did not know what to say to them. He picked up his scissors and began to cut, hoping that his decades of experience would carry him through the stacked meetings.Tourists, spurred in part by a weak yen that makes more of their money go to Japan, have been pouring into the country…

As dawn broke on Thursday, Haitham Abu Ammar combed the ruins of the school that had become a refuge for him and thousands of other displaced Gazans. For hours, he helped people reunite the limbs of their loved ones.”The most painful thing I have ever experienced was picking up these pieces of flesh with my hands,” said Mr Abu Ammar, a 27-year-old construction worker. “I never thought I’d have to do something like this.”Early Thursday, Israeli airstrikes hit the school compound, killing dozens of people — including at least nine militants, the Israeli military said.During the day, bodies and mutilated…