New York City is positioning itself as a leader in an effort to slow down the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the Wall Street Journal reported Monday (Oct. 5). The New York City Council held a hearing Monday in which lawmakers heard from, and in some cases...
New York City has found a new use for the tap card: opening a public toilet. The city is installing 17 modular bathrooms across its five boroughs. Visitors can unlock a door with a text message, QR code, app or card. The bathrooms are free, which may...
Meta is reportedly expanding its physical retail push by opening a new Manhattan store. The tech giant has signed a 10-year lease on a five-story building on Fifth Avenue, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (March 18), citing a statement from the company. Meta in 2024 tested a pop-up store in...
Walmart is reportedly gaining a growing amount of online business in New York City. The retailer is making these gains even as it has been blocked from building physical stores in the city due to opposition from labor unions and activists, the Financial Times reported...
February 19, 2020
The emergence of a novel threat — particularly one like the COVID-19 coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China — has a way of bringing out some of the best and most inventive traits in people. That is observable in the medical workers who have put their health and lives on the line, rescue workers who have streamlined […]
May 22, 2019
The first time is a charm. In fact, the first time must be a charm. No, we are not talking about first dates or so-called “meet cutes” in movies. We...
November 14, 2018
Build it and they will come — in this case, times two. Apologies for the cliché (some of us miss baseball already), but that’s the story with Amazon and its...
June 12, 2018
The joy of renting a new apartment also comes with misery: Handing over a large sum of money to the landlord for a security deposit, which then sits useless in...
October 05, 2026
New York City is positioning itself as a leader in an effort to slow down the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the Wall Street Journal reported Monday (Oct. 5). The New York City Council held a hearing Monday in which lawmakers heard from, and in some cases grilled, representatives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google as well as former employees of AI […]
March 18, 2026
Meta is reportedly expanding its physical retail push by opening a new Manhattan store. The tech giant has signed a 10-year lease on a five-story building on Fifth Avenue, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday...
December 26, 2025
Walmart is reportedly gaining a growing amount of online business in New York City. The retailer is making these gains even as it has been blocked from building physical stores...
December 11, 2025
DoorDash and Uber have sued to block a New York City law that requires delivery platforms to ask consumers to tip at checkout, instead of after the delivery, and to...