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When I ask a friend for restaurant recommendations, I’m rarely asking for something as cut and dry as the operating hours, dress code intel, or whether it’s cash-only — all of that’s helpful, but also easily searchable. If I’m reaching out to you, I’m looking for some notes with a little more color. “The Thai restaurant is kitsch, (literally) underground, and exactly the kind of place that would impress John Waters” is so much better than “fun atmosphere.” These are the kinds of specific, game-changing details that the Eater team prioritizes in our own restaurant reporting, and which we just…

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that’s loosely based on Peter Watts’ 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp’s new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But every single one of Nightborne’s shots was made with ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator.In an X post about the short, Blomkamp described it as a “test start” meant to demonstrate what generative AI is capable of, and he said that he wants “to tackle a…

Replaced military chief Syrskii clashed with former Defence Minister Fedorov, whose removal last week led to protests.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Oleksandr Syrskii as the country’s commander-in-chief, appointing Mykhailo Drapatyi to lead the military. The move comes after six days of protests in the capital, Kyiv, sparked by the removal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who had previously clashed with Syrskii.Zelenskyy said Tuesday’s decision to appoint Drapatyi was made to “reset” the ongoing defence against Russia’s invading troops.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“I am grateful to Oleksandr Syrskyi and to every one of our warriors for Ukraine’s…

CHICAGO – MARCH 28: Traders in the Ten-Year Treasury Note options pit at the Chicago Board of Trade signal offers in a flurry of activity following the announcement by the Federal Open Market Committee that it was raising short term interest rates another .25 percent March 28, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois. Trading in the pit was at a trickle in the moments leading up to the announcement. The raise was the 15th consecutive increase by the Fed and the first since Ben Bernanke took over as chairman of the FOMC.Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesInvestors concerned about…

Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, demonstrating that progress is possible. However, the improvements remain fragile, unevenly distributed and insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI 2026) report, released on Tuesday by five United Nations specialized agencies.The report estimates that 7.8 percent of the global population faced hunger in 2025, down from 8.1 percent in 2024 and 8.6 percent in 2022, confirming a sustained, albeit slow, improvement. This means that around 645 million people were affected by hunger in 2025,…

2026-07-16T08:11:01.263Z I run a workplace management platform. Here’s how AI is reshaping both the culture and physical form of offices. Micah Remley, the CEO of Robin, discusses how the rise of AI is changing the culture around offices and how office spaces physically look. 4 min read 2026-07-11T13:14:01.263Z I moved from Connecticut to the South chasing a cheaper, simpler life. It wasn’t at all what I expected, so I moved back. Connecticut native Sandra Bonola moved to South Carolina for Southern charm and a cheaper lifestyle. Instead, she found it hot, crowded, and pricier than expected. 7 min read 2026-07-08T11:42:55.426Z The World…

You can stream every women’s match in The Hundred for free, as well as selected men’s fixtures; tournament runs until Sunday August 16; MI London Men and SunRisers Leeds Women are the defending champions; England white-ball captain Harry Brook plays for SunRisers’ men’s side

Epstein Victim Tried Contracting STD Hoping it would Kill Him Published July 21, 2026 6:09 AM PDT Play video content A woman who says she survived Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse as a minor is speaking publicly for the first time … claiming she became so desperate to stop him, she tried to contract an STD because she believed it would kill him. Roza Gilles shared her shocking story with CNN … saying she was hired by Epstein as a secretary when she was having a hard time getting her modeling career off the ground. One of the tasks she was asked…

Can you do anything with vanilla pods once you’ve scraped out the seeds? They’re so expensive.Jo, by email“I put them in my knicker drawer,” says Sarah Lemanski, owner of Nova Bakehouse in Leeds. “They scent it nicely, that’s for sure.” But, culinarily speaking, and beyond custards and the like, Lemanski often uses them in vanilla syrup: “Chop the pod quite small, then dry-toast it with some of the sugar for the syrup – I use a 2:1 sugar-to-water ratio – to give it body.” The Guardian’s own Benjamina Ebuehi is very much in agreement, and keeps a stash of said…

One of the most important things happening on Earth today is the solar energy build-out. Around the world, companies and countries are racing to deploy solar and batteries to achieve energy independence and limit the effects of climate change. That build-out, though, is running into a labor market challenge, with a limited supply of workers to meet a growing demand for installation. Robots could be an answer, but industrial robots have historically struggled in unstructured environments, at least until now. The latest generation of AI models may have changed that equation. That’s the driving idea behind Gritt, a start-up founded…