SULMONA, Italy — Workers ladled sugar water on the almonds roasting in spinning copper basins. They set them to tumble hypnotically in tubs of chocolate, collected the confections spit out of packaging machines and loaded white, blue, pink and green varieties onto crates. As Italy lifts more than a yearlong ban on wedding receptions, the…
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And then, of course, there are the inevitable privacy concerns. Kinsa emphasizes that all data provided to the city will be aggregated and anonymized. “None of the individual data is going to anyone other than to that individual,” Mr. Singh said. “They own the data, and we’re really adamant about this.” While digital privacy experts…
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As the nation edges closer to President Biden’s goal of a 70 percent vaccination rate, many people are beginning to wonder how long their protection will last. For now, scientists are asking a lot of questions about Covid-19 booster shots, but they don’t yet have many answers. The National Institutes of Health recently announced that…
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The Food and Drug Administration is on the verge of announcing one of its most contentious decisions in years: the fate of an Alzheimer’s drug that could be the first treatment approved after nearly two decades of failed efforts to find ways to curb the debilitating disease. On Monday, the agency will rule on the…
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Lights have gotten smaller over time, and “any given intensity appears brighter if it’s emitted by a smaller apparent surface versus a larger one,” said Daniel Stern, chief editor of Driving Vision News, a technical journal that covers the automotive lighting industry. “Tall pickups and S.U.V.s and short, small cars are simultaneously popular,” he added.…
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Esta transparencia se extiende a otras estrellas de la telerrealidad, dijo Sarwer. Las mujeres de los programas The Real Housewives se han sometido a todo tipo de intervenciones, desde rellenos de labios hasta rejuvenecimiento vaginal. Parte del nuevo despliegue de mejoras estéticas tiene que ver con el estatus: cuando te haces rellenos faciales como las…
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La mañana de mi graduación de la secundaria, un collar de perlas hizo un sonido como el de una maraca cuando lo saqué de la caja. Su nota decía: “Al parecer, en mi familia existía la tradición de regalarles un collar de perlas a las mujeres para celebrar su graduación de la secundaria. Pues, bien,…
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Artificial intelligence is gradually catching up to ours. A.I. algorithms can now consistently beat us at chess, poker and multiplayer video games, generate images of human faces indistinguishable from real ones, write news articles (not this one!) and even love stories, and drive cars better than most teenagers do. But A.I. isn’t perfect, yet, if…
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The number of red knots visiting the Delaware Bay beaches during this spring’s northbound migration unexpectedly dropped to its lowest since tallies began almost 40 years ago, deepening concern about the shorebird’s survival and dealing a sharp setback to a quarter-century of efforts to save it. Conservationists found fewer than 7,000 of the bird’s rufa…
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Mr. Shropshire’s own Karastan rug has been in storage at the shop ever since his family welcomed a new puppy to their home last year. (“Dogs, cats and kids keep us going,” he said of the rug-cleaning business.) Mr. Shropshire’s shop has had ties to the people who worked at the mill, less than a…
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