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Alibaba debuts AI model that can process video, audio on phones
The internet company co-founded by Jack Ma plans to spend more on its AI and cloud computing network than it has over the past decade…
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Trump’s Deranged Plan for Kennedy Center Revealed in Leaked Audio
Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will have his day in court. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman on Wednesday tossed the…
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Pedro Lemebel, a Radical Voice for Calamitous Times
These days, when an American President has decreed that “there are only two genders: male and female” and issued a slew of executive…
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“Perfection” Is the Perfect Novel for an Age of Aimless Aspiration
In the fall of 1965, a twenty-nine-year-old Georges Perec published his début novel. Short and strange, “Things: A Story of the Sixties”…
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La Tête d’Or and the Revenge of the American Steak House
By a long shot, the most exciting new steak house in New York right now is La Tête d’Or by Daniel, the latest restaurant from the…
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Graydon Carter’s Wild Ride Through a Golden Age of Magazines
At Spy, Carter had mocked Vanity Fair, which he had found breathy and incestuous. (“In Vanity Fair, it’s sometimes difficult to tell who…
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The Parental Panic of “Adolescence”
Minutes into the new Netflix drama “Adolescence,” a thirteen-year-old boy is arrested for murder. Early in the morning, half a dozen…
Culture
Uneven Revivals of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Ghosts”
In early 1947, the playwright Tennessee Williams wrote to the producer Irene Selznick because Elia Kazan, who had been tapped to direct…
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The Deliriously Witty Spy Games of “Black Bag”
The marvellous new espionage thriller “Black Bag” is, among other things, a sparkling ode to a happy marriage. I’m referring, in part, to…
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The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Virgins
How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny. Source link
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Two Young Pianists Test Their Limits
When, last month, the preposterously gifted twenty-year-old pianist Yunchan Lim played Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto at the…
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The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies
A warrior is in a prison cell. His guard approaches and shows him the wooden sword that he will receive once he has earned his freedom.…
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How “Severance” Makes a Fetish of the Office
When “Severance” premièred, in 2022, it felt like an absurdist parable about the alienation of labor—a moody, eerie critique of…
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A Crowning Moment for the New Orleans King Cake
For bakeries in New Orleans, the first few months of the year are among the busiest. As the rest of the country stares down the barrel of…
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Audio of Indonesian president-elect is from old interview, not 'leaked recording'
Audio from an old interview where Indonesia’s president-elect talks about negative campaigning from "foreign minions" resurfaced in May…