The role slavery and cheap labour played in the foundation and vast wealth of the British Empire has been highlighted by a New York museum. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has redesigned its British galleries to illustrate how cultural traditions that sprang from the empire fitted alongside opulent wealth amassed from slave labour. The renovation … Read more
The 1911 video entitled ‘A Trip Through New York City’ has been brought back to life more than a hundred years later by artificial intelligence. Shot by a Swedish film production company, the black and white footage has be restored with neural networks to create a colorized, sharper version of the black and white movie. … Read more
Coronavirus test kits are in short supply, were flawed when they were first distributed to labs across the US and abroad, and the results can take days for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to verify. Even the CDC’s coronavirus point person, Dr Nancy Messonnier, admitted on Friday that the diagnostic has been … Read more
New York Stock Exchange considers shutting trading floor amid coronavirus fears as Wall Street firms tell workers to prepare to work from home The New York Stock Exchange is considering closing its trading floor amid concerns the conoravirus outbreak will spread into a wider pandemic Wall Street firms already have started restricting travel and advising … Read more
Lady Gaga’s father Joe Germanotta is holding back payments on one of his New York City restaurants over claims that the homeless population is hurting his business. Germanotta owns two restaurants in the city: Joanne Trattoria on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and Art Bird & Whiskey Bar, which is located at the dining concourse of … Read more
A New York Times journalist has opened up about what it’s like to learn that your ex is dating a massively famous celebrity — in this case, Lady Gaga. Lindsay Crouse, 35, a Senior Staff Editor at the Times, revealed in an opinion piece today that the day after the Super Bowl, she discovered that her ex Michael … Read more