A week after the death of sex criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein, Anya (not her real name) answered the door to his New York apartment. Outside was Epstein’s brother, Mark, telling him he had to leave, he says. Anya had lived for years in one of several apartments on East 66th Street in Manhattan that Jeffrey
The race to build the next AI interface is packed with startups. Plaud’s Sandbar ring, AI pin and desktop notepad, and Pocket’s credit card-sized disks compete to capture what you say and do. Bee and Friend take the wearables route, while Meta Ray-Bans and Even Realities go for smart glasses. Now, a Bengaluru and San
India on Wednesday unveiled billions of dollars in new incentives for smartphone manufacturing and an expanded semiconductor push, seeking to build on its success in assembling Apple’s iPhones and shift more of the global electronics supply chain away from China. Called the Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme, the ₹625 billion (around $6.5 billion) program will run
Prominent Colombian company Rhayuela, known for such memorable films as “Alias María,” “El Páramo” and “Rebellion” at Cannes 2015, is changing its leadership, although its six original partners remain on board. Among them, Federico Durán has formed his own company, El Sol Ermitaño, but retains a stake in the company for more than 30 years.
The United States and Iran have been trading waves of attacks, as a dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to derail efforts to end their war. BBC correspondent Barbara Plett Usher, reporting from Jerusalem, examines the latest tensions over the key international shipping channel. Over the weekend, Iran announced that the strait
A growing number of private investment firms are pouring millions into youth sports, and critics say their capitalization of the athletic development of young people across the country goes too far. Every year, more multimillion-dollar companies buy the most competitive tournaments in popular sports like football, hockey, and baseball. In many cases, they are also