Month Archives: April 2025

Tech

Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work

One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company Palantir, leading a company executive to offer an extensive defense of Palantir’s work. The back-and-forth came after federal filings showed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — tasked with...

Real Estate

10 Recession-Proof Short-Term Rental Markets You Should Be Watching

In This Article Ask one person; we’re already deep into a recession. Ask someone else; the economy’s fine—just don’t check your 401(k).  Truth is, whether we’re in a recession, heading toward one, or dodging it by a thread, many short-term rental investors are asking the same thing: What kind of...

Shows

NYC’s Union Square area on a roll for retail, restaurant leases

Union Square Park and its surroundings lost much of their good-times juice after popular restaurant Coffee Shop on Union Square West closed in 2018 and Blue Water Grill followed it into history in 2019. It never felt quite the same even with big-name retailers on East 14th Street and the ever-popular...

Tech

Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash preview on April 17

Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, its hybrid reasoning model, is now available in preview for the standalone Gemini app. On Thursday, the company rolled out an "early version" of the model with updated reasoning capabilities. It can also better determine how much processing power or "thinking" to apply to each request....

Nature

New tech could transform science of wildlife ‘selfies’

A groundbreaking new effort could greatly expand our knowledge of where the wild things are. Placed by researchers in forests and natural areas around the world, motion-detector cameras — known as “camera traps” — snap thousands of photos a day of animals rarely seen by human eyes. These unwitting selfies have...

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