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What Does a City Get Back From Hosting the Olympics?

It was a sunny morning in mid-June and the athletes’ village for the Summer Olympics, in Seine-Saint-Denis, just outside Paris, was still nominally under construction. Workers sweated in hard hats and yellow vests, watching over the empty site.

22/07/2024

Soho Waiters Race Keeps London Servers on Their Toes

Waiters in London competed in an annual footrace designed to test their mettle, their coordination and their skill as servers.

22/07/2024

Hong Kong’s Bouncy ‘Wonders’ Leave Some Wondering, ‘Why?’

Inflatable replicas of famous monuments popped up in a park, raising questions about art and Hong Kong’s changing place in the world.

21/07/2024

Data for A.I. Training Is Disappearing Fast, Study Shows

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.

19/07/2024

Ozempic and Weight Loss Drugs: Which Should You Choose?

As patients consider drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound and Mounjaro to treat obesity, experts say the choices are not so simple.

19/07/2024

How Getty and Shutterstock Are Building AI Image Generators

Companies like Getty have begun developing A.I. models with their own data, part of a broader push to build artificial intelligence with licensed content.

19/07/2024

Is She the Oldest Person in the Amazon Rainforest?

The life of Varî Vãti Marubo shows how much life has changed for the rainforest’s Indigenous tribes — and how much has stayed the same.

19/07/2024

A Daily Pill to Prevent S.T.I.s? It May Work, Scientists Say.

A common antibiotic, doxycycline, greatly reduced cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia when taken every day, a study found.

18/07/2024

Are China’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Plateauing?

China, the world’s biggest source of planet-warming greenhouse gases for most of the past two decades, is seemingly on the verge of bending its emissions curve from years of steep growth into a flat plateau. The implications for climate change could…

18/07/2024

Watch Rare Siamese Crocodiles Hatching

The largest population of the endangered Siamese crocodiles this century hatched in Cambodia, a big moment for the conservation of a wild species once on the brink of extinction.

18/07/2024