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Google launches US$499 Pixel 9a, rivalling Apple’s iPhone 16e
Alphabet’s Google launched a redesigned version of its budget Pixel phone, upgrading the chip and battery life weeks after Apple’s…
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Prudential eyes growth in India as it posts 2% decline in new business profit for FY2024
New business profit in Singapore is up 15%, underpinned by 11% increase in annual premium equivalent sales Prudential is betting on India…
Business
HSBC’s revamp of key Asia division costs women senior roles
A global overhaul at HSBC Holdings has seen female executives in Asia lose out after the lender asked managers to reapply for senior roles…
Business
Ripple Labs says US SEC ends appeal over crypto oversight
Since US President Donald Trump began his second White House term in January, the SEC has retreated on crypto oversight Ripple Labs said…
Business
Oil rises on US fuel demand, Fed rate decision caps gains
Oil prices edged up on Wednesday (Mar 19) after US government data showed a draw in fuel inventories, but the Federal Reserve’s decision…
Business
US Fed holds rates again, flags increased economic uncertainty
The US Federal Reserve paused interest rate cuts again on Wednesday (Mar 19) and noted an increase in economic uncertainty, as it…
Culture
“Who by Fire” Is a Brilliant Drama of Male Rage at Its Most Elemental
The Québécois director Philippe Lesage began making documentaries in the early two-thousands. He has since switched to narrative features,…
Culture
Laurie Santos’s Pursuit of Happiness
Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist at Yale, teaches the most popular course in the university’s three-hundred-year history, Psychology…
Culture
The Ecstatic Intimacies of Joe Brainard
“I am a sucker for people who seem to do what they do just for you (me).” The artist and writer Joe Brainard dashed off this thought in…
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Hollywood creatives urge government to defend copyright laws against AI
More than 400 Hollywood creatives, including director Guillermo del Toro and actors Cynthia Erivo and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, are urging the…
Business
How to Master Startup Financial Planning
Innovative ideas and dynamic teams are not enough to successfully scale a startup. Those operating in the B2B sector must manage financial…
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Probate Court Explained: Why Everyone Tries to Avoid It
Probate can be a dreaded word for many people. It refers to the court process that handles the distribution of a deceased person’s assets…
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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…
Culture
Amy Sherald’s “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)”
The artist Amy Sherald is known for her stirring portraits of First Lady Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, and often uses grayscale to…
Culture
Mister Lonely, the New TV Hero
Widowers drive the plots of “Paradise,” “Severance,” and “American Primeval,” to poignant effect. Source link
Culture
“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”…
Culture
Collection Agencies: When to Call in the Pros
When clients stop paying their bills, it can be a real headache for any business. Knowing when to hire a collection agency can help you…
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Commentary: Elon Musk brought a Silicon Valley mindset to Trump's Washington. It's been a disaster
Washington has never seen anything like the rule-breaking, power-taking, government-torching, protocol-scorching force of delighted havoc…
Culture
Sarah Snook’s Wilde Adventure
For almost fifteen minutes, we sit looking at a vertical screen on a seemingly empty stage. In the projection, the Australian actress…
Culture
Saul Steinberg’s Masterful Language of Lines
Saul Steinberg, the Romanian American artist and longtime New Yorker contributor, is as celebrated for his elegant line as he is for his…
Culture
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…
Culture
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…
Culture
The Unsettling Cheer of “The Baldwins”
Early on in “Mulholland Drive,” the late, great David Lynch’s 2001 surreal masterpiece of American aspiration and degeneration, the young…