Month: December 2021
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Tech
Everybody Into the Metaverse! Virtual Reality Beckons Big Tech.
The metaverse, one of the most buzzy terms of the tech industry, could be many things. It could be a…
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Food
No-Sweat Answers to Some Basic Wine Questions
The first and most important thing to know about drinking wine is this: There are no rules. For an experience…
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World
Años Viejos: Torching the Old Year to Toast the New One
Every December, Jaime Ivan Salazar and his family, like many in Colombia, Ecuador and other parts of Latin America, construct…
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World
Can a Tiny Territory in the South Pacific Power Tesla’s Ambitions?
Nickel is vital to electric car batteries, but extracting it is dirty and destructive. A plant with a turbulent history…
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World
A World Divided by Covid and Other Ills United to Explore Space
America was a nation divided, but that did not stop it from building parts of the James Webb Space Telescope…
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World
In 2021, We Were There: The Year’s 14 Most Popular Dispatches
As the world reopened cautiously in 2021, our correspondents seized the chance to venture out in search of stories that…
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World
Your Thursday Briefing
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in an undated photo that was used as evidence in her trial.Credit...US District Court for…
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World
Biden and Putin Will Hold a Call on Ukraine
President Biden will talk to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday about the grinding crisis at the Ukrainian…
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World
Singapore charges a man accused of lending out his vaccination record, and other international news.
The police in Singapore charged a man after he was accused of allowing another person to use his proof of…
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World
Anti-Coup Protesters in Sudan Press Their Demand for Return to Civilian Rule
NAIROBI, Kenya — Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of several cities in Sudan on Saturday, activists and pro-democracy groups…