Close your eyes and imagine a stereotypical hiker. Do the words “rugged” and “built Ford tough” come to mind? Are they wearing khaki shorts? Is a tube attached to a CamelBak hanging from their mouth? Whatever you imagined, that hiker is probably using the app AllTrails. In fact, just about …
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Daniel C. Lynch, Founder of Major Computer Exhibition, Dies at 82
Daniel C. Lynch, a computer network engineer whose exhibitions on networking equipment helped accelerate the commercialization of the internet in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Saturday at his home in St. Helena, Calif. He was 82. His death was confirmed by his daughter Julie Lynch-Sasson, who said he had …
Read More »Donovan Clingan’s ‘Bill Walton-esque’ dominance leads UConn back to Final Four
BOSTON — Bill Clingan had just watched his son, Donovan, dominate an Elite Eight game in breathtaking fashion. His boy, now a 7-foot-2 man, had so thoroughly terrorized the second-ranked offense in college basketball that Illinois actually looked broken. As Donovan accepted the Most Outstanding Player award for the NCAA …
Read More »Cease-Fire Talks in Cairo and Israel-Hamas War News: Live Updates
When Christopher Lockyear, the secretary general of the aid group Doctors Without Borders, visited the Gaza Strip for five days this month, he took note of the miles of trucks waiting to deliver aid into the devastated enclave despite mounting international pressure to increase shipments. On Thursday, the International Court …
Read More »As Graffiti Moves From Eyesore to Amenity, Landlords Try to Cash In
Julian Phethean’s first canvas in London was a shed in his backyard where he covered the walls with bold lettering in spray paint. When he moved his art to the city’s streets in the 1980s, it was largely unwelcome — and he was even arrested a few times. “We had …
Read More »Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
These days, the song brings in about $1,200 per month, enough to pay his rent, Casey told me, with what sounded like a Lebowskian shrug. “I have other songs that I want to put up,” he said. “But I kind of don’t want to sell out.” I asked if he …
Read More »Angel Reese doesn’t need to be liked, but she and LSU demand your respect
ALBANY, N.Y. — There was joy, because of course there is when a team survives and advances in March. Flau’jae Johnson, who scored 24 points and willed LSU past UCLA, bounded over toward the Tigers’ family and friends in the stands with a big, bright smile. But about 15 minutes …
Read More »They Can’t See the Total Solar Eclipse, but LightSound Will Help Them Hear It
On Aug. 21, 2017, Kiki Smith’s teenage sons giddily prepared to watch the partial solar eclipse in Rochester, N.Y. As Ms. Smith listened to their chatter, she felt excluded. “I felt very alone,” she said. Ms. Smith was diagnosed with a degenerative condition as a child and lost the last …
Read More »Second Boat Carrying Aid to Gaza Departs Cyprus
A second load of aid from the World Central Kitchen left Cyprus for Gaza on Saturday, an even bigger batch of badly needed food for Palestinians at imminent risk of famine. A vessel, called the Jennifer, and other barges were carrying almost 400 tons of shelf-stable and ready-to-eat items like …
Read More »AT&T Passcodes for Millions Are Reset After Leak of Customer Records
The telecommunications giant AT&T announced on Saturday that it had reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers after it determined that compromised customer data was “released on the dark web.” “Our internal teams are working with external cybersecurity experts to analyze the situation,” AT&T said. “To the best of our …
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