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After about a decade of stasis, big things are afoot in the world of social media, says Noah Smith.
After about a decade of stasis, big things are afoot in the world of social media, says Noah Smith.
U.S. equity tumbled Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested the central bank would be patient in taking action should inflation return.
I know, I know, who needs another new streaming service in 2021, right? But Paramount+, which launched today, isn’t technically new—it’s just a beefed-up version of CBS All Access, augmented to take advantage of all the synergy created by the 2019 merger between CBS and Paramount Pictures’ parent Viacom.
In many school districts across the nation, public school teachers still don’t want to go back to work. Private sector workers have long been hard at work in kitchens, at construction sites, and in hardware and grocery stores. Meanwhile, from Seattle, to Los Angeles, and to Berkeley, California, Teachers' Union representatives insist they simply can’t be expected to perform the on-site work in the expensive facilities that the taxpayers have long been paying for.
Читать дальше...TOKYO: Honda Motor Co will start offering from Friday the revamped Legend sedan in Japan equipped with "level-3" autonomous technology as the auto industry faces intensifying competition to develop driverless vehicles and a collision-free society.
The Cannabis and Hemp Expo kicks off on Friday at Chang International Circuit in Buri Ram.
Takagi Kazuo, the chef-patron of two Michelin-starred Kyoto Cuisine Takagi restaurant in Ashiya, Japan, and founder of Kinu by Takagi at Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok, is a recognised master of Japan's super genteel kaiseki cookery.
While doughnuts aren't rare in Bangkok, they can be hit-or-miss. Some might be too sweet that even one doughnut puts you in a sugar coma while others are just laden with artificial flavouring. You sometimes also get doughnuts made with unsatisfying dough. However, Drop By Dough dashes all of those to bits and entices customers to enter their quaint Scandinavian-designed shop, settle in and dig...
After leading a coup in 2014, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha announced a code of "Twelve Thai Values", telling people how to think and behave. It is difficult to imagine Angela Merkel announcing "Twelve German Values", or even Narendra Modi announcing "Twelve Indian Values". Since the mid-19th century, there have been lots of Thai manuals about proper body language and oral language in social encounters....
Over the course of its 140 years history, Seiko has progressed as the world's leading watchmaker, under Kintaro Hattori's mantra: "Don't run but always keep going."
Seiko's 140th anniversary celebrations begin with a series of Prospex, Presage and Astron watches inspired by Japan's breathtaking landscapes and seascapes.
Movie fans who have been following the news about what's been happening in Hollywood over the last few decades are used to hearing or reading about public scandals, especially the case of American film director Woody Allen's sexual abuse allegations and actress Mia Farrow and her divorce from Allen.
If Clubhouse isn't enough to make Samsung fanboys considering abandoning Android for iOS, a new set of emojis may. It has been recently reported that iPhone users can look forwards to 217 new emojis that they can use to expand their emojinication (emoji + communication) with. These new ideogrammatic icons include a revamped version of the syringe icon to be bloodless to go with 2021 as the year of...
On the walls of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where I work, there is a print by artist Raymond Pettibon. It shows a swath of blue paint above the words, "Yes, but alas, the blue sky has been repainted. By restoration, there is no telling how much you have lost."
The Internal Trade Department looks set to require private hospitals to inform people of the prices of an additional 100 medicines and medical services related to the pandemic so consumers can view them before deciding whether or not to receive them.