Well, that was a nice idea in theory. Paris held the first-ever Olympics opening ceremony to take place outside a stadium—and on one of the loveliest settings in the world, the Seine. Athletes paraded not by foot but by boat, waving flags from sleek cruising pontoons, as pageantry unfolded on …
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Following the Parade of Nations on the Seine River, athletes and spectators watch as lasers light up the sky around the Eiffel Tower, at the Trocadero venue, during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 26, 2024.
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Yesterday OpenAI made what should have been a triumphant entry into the AI-search wars: The start-up announced SearchGPT, a prototype tool that can use …
Yesterday, NASA announced that one of its Mars rovers had sampled a very, very intriguing rock. At first glance, the rock looks much like the rest of the red planet—rugged, sepia-toned, dry. But it’s arguably the most exciting one that robotic space explorers have ever come across. The rock, NASA …
What makes someone a parent? It’s not the most pressing question facing the country. But in the days since President Joe Biden dropped his reelection campaign and endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee, Republicans have lobbed a personal and notably misogynistic attack against the vice president: that she’s …
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This week, I’ve been engaging in a high-stakes round of planning. The flurry of text messages lighting up my phone will dictate how my next two weeks will …
American democracy can be raucous, unpredictable, even chaotic—as evidenced by President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw his candidacy for president, throwing an already volatile election year into tumult. So it might surprise Americans to know that observers in China’s repressive autocracy find something in all of this to envy.
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First came a 40-minute, mostly wordless episode of television that seemed designed to replicate a character’s traumatized, fracturing psyche. Second: a courtroom procedural punctuated with bizarre dream sequences and misleading fantasies. Then a prestige series threw in a Freudian vision of a character having sex with his own mother. Lately, …
When President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him on the Democratic ticket, Donald Trump’s campaign saw a threat. The Republican National Committee proposed suing to force Biden to run. Stephen Miller whined on Fox News about how mean the Democrats are …
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