Rivian, a fledgling maker of electric vehicles, said Thursday it lost $1.7 billion in the second quarter and estimated it would make just over 26,000 vehicles this year, about 1,000 more than it previously forecast. The company said it was still having difficulty getting enough components to ramp up production to higher levels. “The supply …
She is tall and slender, wearing an elegant conical hat. She frequents the tables of the most coveted restaurants in New York City. She lights up a room. Perhaps you have seen it? She is a lamp. The Pina Pro cordless lamp from the Italian design company Zafferano, to be exact. And she is everywhere. …
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Comic book writer and artist Frank Miller is suing the widow and estate of a comic book magazine founder over two pieces of promotional art he created that she was trying to sell at auction. The art, which appeared on the covers of David Anthony Kraft’s Comics Interview magazine in the 1980s, includes an early …
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On a recent Tuesday afternoon, diners crowded around marble-topped bistro tables at Chez Maggy at the new Thompson hotel, open since February in Denver’s LoDo neighborhood. The giveaway: A chance to sample chef Ludo Lefebvre’s classic French fare — garlicky snails, curry-fried mussels, orange-flavoured duck breast — on his first venture outside of Los Angeles. …
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On a recent Tuesday afternoon, diners crowded around marble-topped bistro tables at Chez Maggy at the new Thompson hotel, open since February in Denver’s LoDo neighborhood. The giveaway: A chance to sample chef Ludo Lefebvre’s classic French fare — garlic snails, curry-fried mussels, orange-flavoured duck breast — on his first venture outside of Los Angeles. …
GISBORNE, New Zealand — Horehore Station, a sheep and cattle ranch, sprawls across 4,000 acres on New Zealand’s North Island, its jagged expanse of jagged hills and steep ravines covered in lush green grass. It is good and productive farmland, despite the rugged landscape. But soon it will no longer be a farm. The land’s …
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It’s no wonder, really, that Issey Miyake was Steve Jobs’ favorite designer. The man behind Mr. Jobs’s black mock turtleneck personal uniform, who died on August 5 aged 84, was a pioneer in all sorts of ways: the first foreign designer to walk at Paris Fashion Week. (in April 1974), among the first designers to …
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LOS ANGELES — Countering a streaming slowdown that has hit Hollywood recently, Disney+ added 14.4 million subscribers in the most recent quarter, about 45 percent more than Wall Street expected and lifting Disney’s portfolio of streaming services. 221 million subscribers worldwide, on par with Netflix Disney released the figures Wednesday as part of a blockbuster …
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Elon Musk, the chief executive of electric vehicle maker Tesla, sold about $7 billion worth of company stock, a move he said on Twitter was an effort to raise cash should he be forced to complete his deal. $44 billion to acquire the social media company. The sale of 7.92 million Tesla shares was made …
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Many of the default settings buried deep in our technology force us to share excessive amounts of data with tech companies. In my last column I decided how to close them. But not all default settings do terrible things to our data. There are also some that need to be enabled or disabled to make …
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