Posts by Amelia Frost
Microsoft and Nvidia: The Tech Giants Taking a Quieter Approach to Trump
Friday afternoon last week, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia, slipped into the White House to meet President Trump for the first time. There was no fanfare, and he left without a single public photo taken of the two. Two weeks earlier, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, had a lengthy lunch with…
Read MoreWhy Are People Wearing Apple Watches on Their Ankles?
“But then my other arm would always get tired from pushing the stroller,” she said. “So I was like, ‘You know what? Let me put it on my ankle.’” Ms. Gale, 33, who also wears the watch on her ankle when she uses StairMaster and elliptical machines at the gym, does a double take whenever…
Read MoreHow Going to Commercial During the Super Bowl Works
Television commercial breaks are the bane of every N.F.L. fan. They interrupt a game already riddled with stoppages, bombard viewers with come-ons and force fans and players in the stadium to stand around for about two and a half minutes, sometimes in the freezing cold. Yet commercials are the lifeblood of the N.F.L. Without them,…
Read MoreBaltics Begin Decoupling From Russian Power Grid
The Baltic states on Saturday began cutting ties with Russia’s power grid in order to integrate with Europe’s system, a years-long process that gained urgency with Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — all former Soviet republics now in the European Union and NATO — are leaving Russia’s grid to prevent Moscow from…
Read MoreDemi Moore Wins At Critics Choice With Disgraced Rival Gascon Absent
Demi Moore won best actress at the Critics Choice Awards on Friday, confirming her status as favorite for the Oscars in a week that saw scandal envelop her “Emilia Perez” rival Karla Sofia Gascon. Nineties megastar Moore’s horror film “The Substance” also won best original screenplay at a glitzy Los Angeles gala held by North…
Read MoreSyrians Stuck In Camps After Finding Homes Destroyed
Mehdi al-Shayesh thought he would quickly resettle in his central Syrian home town after Bashar al-Assad was ousted, but like many others stuck in camps, he found his home uninhabitable. “We were unbelievably happy when the regime fell,” the 40-year-old said from his small, concrete-block house in Atme displacement camp, one of the largest and…
Read MoreAirbus And Boeing Eye India’s ‘Soaring Skies’
Air traffic is booming in India, even though only a tiny fraction of its people fly each year, and manufacturers are seeking lucrative deals at the flagship Aero India exhibition from Monday. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) will also hold its annual general meeting in June in New Delhi, the capital of the world’s…
Read MoreRight-Wing Crusade Against USAID Has Been Fueled by Falsehoods
The video falsely claiming that the United States Agency for International Development paid Ben Stiller, Angelina Jolie and other actors millions of dollars to travel to Ukraine appeared to be a clip from E!News, though it never appeared on the entertainment channel. In fact, the video first surfaced on X in a post from an…
Read MoreEU’s Largest Far-right Bloc Makes Show Of Force In Madrid
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and France’s Marine Le Pen headline a rally in Madrid on Saturday by Europe’s biggest far-right bloc, buoyed by electoral gains and Donald Trump’s return to power. Patriots for Europe has realigned the EU far right and became the European Parliament’s third-largest force after Orban helped launch it last year…
Read MoreA 50-year Crisis — Ecuador’s Next President Faces A Stern Test
In the throes of a bloody drug war, a shrinking economy and an acute energy crisis, Ecuadorans are remarkably optimistic about their country’s future as they prepare to vote in Sunday election. The past few years have been brutal for Ecuador, a scenic Andean nation of about 18 million people once a bastion of stability…
Read MoreRwandan And Congolese Leaders To Meet Over Eastern DRC Conflict
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame was due to meet his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi in Tanzania on Saturday as regional leaders convene in a bid to defuse the conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo. The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has rapidly seized swathes of territory in the mineral-rich eastern DRC in an offensive that has left…
Read MoreHamas, Israel To Begin Fifth Hostage-prisoner Exchange
Hamas is set to release three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for 183 prisoners held by Israel in the fifth exchange of a fragile Gaza ceasefire. The exchange comes despite uproar in the region over a proposal by US President Donald Trump to clear out the Gaza Strip of its inhabitants and for the…
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