Cat Scratch Fever has shifted up the calendar a couple months this time around. Last year, the Florida Panthers spent the first half of the season looking for signal on their phone before closing the second half with a flourish to make the playoffs. That carried over into the postseason as they chased down the…
Jordan Love of the Green Bay Packers looks to throw a pass during pregame warmups before an NFC divisional round playoff football game against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium on January 20, 2024 in Santa Clara, California.Image: Getty Images It’s amazing the difference a year can make. Twelve months ago, there were so…
88rising’s Moonrise Gala On Saturday evening in Los Angeles, the Lunar New Year celebrations continued as Hollywood’s Milk Studios was transformed for the inaugural Moonrise Gala by 88rising, the pan-Asian music collective and record label. Like 88rising, which helps Asian artists find mainstream success in the West, the event was focused on highlighting pioneering Asian…
The New England Patriots dynasty ended when Tom Brady left for Tampa Bay, but now it’s officially over as the Pats’ run is getting The Last Dance treatment. Yes, only a season past Bill Belichick’s departure, Apple+ has a nine-parter called The Dynasty coming out whenever. What they won’t tell you in that documentary (I’m…
Artificial intelligence companies have been at the vanguard of developing the transformative technology. Now they are also racing to set limits on how A.I. is used in a year stacked with major elections around the world. Last month, OpenAI, the maker of the ChatGPT chatbot, said it was working to prevent abuse of its tools…
A year ago, on Valentine’s Day, I said good night to my wife, went to my home office to answer some emails and accidentally had the strangest first date of my life. The date was a two-hour conversation with Sydney, the A.I. alter ego tucked inside Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which I had been assigned…
As guests trickled into Jenna Zhang and Irene Kim’s apartment in Astoria, Queens, on a recent Saturday evening, no one needed an explanation for the array of raw ingredients before them — the marbled sliced meats; fish tofu and rolled, fried skins; napa cabbage; plump pink rice cakes; and ramen noodles. Electronic dance music hummed…
Snow and freezing rain in China were disrupting travel on Monday and had already caused hundreds of rail and flight cancellations, as millions of people traveled across the country before lunar new year holiday begins this weekend. For many years, heavy travel within and into China ahead of the holiday, known as Spring Festival in…
Apple has had plenty of challenges to start the year. The Apple Watch has been altered by patent lawsuits, the App Store has come under fire from developers, and the iPhone has faced renewed competition in China. Topping it all off, the company was recently dethroned as the undisputed king of the stock market when…
Restaurants have started gearing up for the Lunar New Year, with Year of the Dragon starting on Feb. 10 and New Year celebrations lasting about two weeks. Tolo, the chef Ron Yan’s restaurant which opened in early November, will offer a special $100 per person menu for parties of six to 12 that includes classics…
