SANA, via Associated PressAn image released by Syria’s official news agency showed Damascus residents gathering at the scene of a blast on Monday. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria was convulsed by one of the most violent days in months on Monday, with heavy fighting reported around Palestinian neighborhoods in southern Damascus, at least two car-bomb explosions and strikes by government aircraft on numerous...
Critic’s Notebook: ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ and ‘LOLwork’ on Bravo
Labels: Technology When word got out about “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley,” the valley started to have conniptions. Among the more clever responses was a tweet by a TechCrunch editor: “Here Comes Silicon Valley Boo Boo.” Bravo The siblings Ben and Hermione Way bumble through a presentation after...
Unlikely Model for H.I.V. Prevention: Porn Industry
Labels: LifestyleStephanie Diani for The New York TimesINDUSTRY DATABASE Shylar Cobi, right, a film producer, confirmed test results of the actors who perform as James Deen and Stoya. LOS ANGELES — Before they take off all their clothes, the actors who perform as James Deen and Stoya go through a ritual unique to the heterosexual adult film industry. First, they show each other their cellphones: Each has...
Unlikely Model for H.I.V. Prevention: Porn Industry
Labels: HealthStephanie Diani for The New York TimesINDUSTRY DATABASE Shylar Cobi, right, a film producer, confirmed test results of the actors who perform as James Deen and Stoya. LOS ANGELES — Before they take off all their clothes, the actors who perform as James Deen and Stoya go through a ritual unique to the heterosexual adult film industry. First, they show each other their cellphones: Each has...
Silicon Valley Objects to Online Privacy Rule Proposals for Children
Labels: BusinessWashington is pushing Silicon Valley on children’s privacy, and Silicon Valley is pushing back. Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have all objected to portions of a federal effort to strengthen online privacy protections for children. In addition, media giants like Viacom and Disney, cable operators, marketing associations, technology groups and a trade group representing...
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Benghazi Attack Raises Doubts About U.S. Abilities in Region
Labels: WorldEsam Omran Al-Fetori/ReutersThe attack at the American Mission on Sept. 11, seen here, and an annex in Benghazi, Libya, points to a limitation in the capabilities of the American military command responsible for countries swept up in the Arab Spring. WASHINGTON — About three hours after the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, came under attack, the Pentagon issued an urgent call for an...
Massive Open Online Courses Are Multiplying at a Rapid Pace
Labels: TechnologyClockwise, from top left: an online course in circuits and electronics with an M.I.T. professor (edX); statistics, Stanford (Udacity); machine learning, Stanford (Coursera); organic chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana (Coursera). IN late September, as workers applied joint compound to new office walls, hoodie-clad colleagues who had just met were working together on deadline. Film editors, code-writing...
Well: The Mental Fallout of the Hurricane
Labels: LifestyleIn the small Connecticut town where I grew up, the tornado of 1979 remains the storm, a freak tornado packing 86-mile-per-hour winds that churned through the streets, killing three people, injuring hundreds and destroying several hundred homes and businesses, including many in my neighborhood.I was 15 at the time, at home alone looking after my 10-year-old sister and 5-year-old brother. For months...
Well: The Mental Fallout of the Hurricane
Labels: HealthIn the small Connecticut town where I grew up, the tornado of 1979 remains the storm, a freak tornado packing 86-mile-per-hour winds that churned through the streets, killing three people, injuring hundreds and destroying several hundred homes and businesses, including many in my neighborhood.I was 15 at the time, at home alone looking after my 10-year-old sister and 5-year-old brother. For months...
Google Casts a Big Shadow on Smaller Web Sites
Labels: BusinessAnnie Tritt for The New York TimesJeffrey G. Katz, the chief executive of Wize Commerce, seen with employees. He says that about 60 percent of the traffic for the company’s Nextag comparison-shopping site comes from Google. In a geeky fire drill, engineers and outside consultants at Nextag scrambled to see if the problem was its own fault. Maybe some inadvertent change had prompted Google’s algorithm...
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