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The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling, and provides news, depth and serendipity. If you haven’t already, download it here — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. The Headlines brings you the biggest stories of the day from the Times journalists who are covering them, all in about 10 minutes. Hosted by Annie Correal, the new morning show features three top stories from reporters across the newsroom and around the world, so you always have a sense of what’s happening, even if you only have a few minutes to spare.

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

☆ Listen Early to This American Life: The Florida Experiment
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( New York Times Audio | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling and provides news, depth and serendipity. It is available to Times news subscribers on iOS. If you haven’t already, download the app here and sign up for our weekly newsletter. Our new audio app is home to “This American Life,” hosted by Ira Glass. The app includes a “Best of This American Life” section with different acts from the show broken down into bite-size clips, so you can enjoy the show even if you don’t have a lot of time.

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☆ The unlikely story of the first photo of Mars ever seen on TV
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

It was one of a twin set of spacecraft designed to take images of Mars, and the first one failed. Dan Goods/NASA/JPL-CaltechThe transmission was incredibly slow by today’s standards, given that the Perseverance rover regularly sends back batches of high-resolution images from Mars. Together, they revealed craters on the Martian surface and clouds floating above in the atmosphere, both of which surprised scientists. The highest-resolution Mariner 4 image (right) revealed the cratered Martian surface from 7,830 miles (12,601 kilometers) above. JPL/NASAThe snapshots showed less than 1% of the Martian surface, missing the more diverse features on the planet’s surface that later missions such as Viking 1 would capture.

Persons: Pasadena , California CNN —, Mars, “, ”, David Delgado, Percival, Dan Goods, Richard Grumm, Grumm, ” Delgado, William Pickering Organizations: Pasadena , California CNN, Spacecraft, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA’s, JPL, Mariner, Venus, NASA Mariner, NASA, Caltech, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Locations: Pasadena , California, High, Pasadena, Flagstaff , Arizona, Goldstone , California

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

☆ 2,000 Miles, a Balky R.V. and a Swim with Whale Sharks: How We Got Our Travel Mojo Back
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Damien Cave | More About Damien Cave | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Category 5 cyclone hit Western Australia the week we arrived. It was about 800 miles north of us, but on our first night, wind gusts tossed our R.V. During Covid, living in Australia, where state and national borders were closed for more than a year, that was impossible. We feared snags at airports, Covid, quarantine, labor shortages that slashed services. Travel had changed.

Persons: Amelia, ”, Diana, “ We’ll, “, We’d, I’d Organizations: New York Times, Travel Locations: Australia, Western Australia, Covid

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

☆ It's a huge win for Zuckerberg if Threads steals Twitter's lost charm and serendipity
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Shona Ghosh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But making it more popular than Twitter would be a big win for Mark Zuckerberg. Most Twitter users know that the platform comes alive during a breaking news event, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Those paying average Joes are now prioritized in the feed, devaluing Twitter as a place to discover interesting people. A recurring theme on Threads: It's a nice place to hang out (for now...) Insider/Shona Ghosh/ThreadsThat niceness could be fragile and temporary. Threads may go the same way since, as the internet loves to say, we can't have nice things.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, TikTok's, Zuckerberg, Samuel Beckett, beery louts, Paul Graham, Paul Graham Zuckerberg, Shona Ghosh, Twitter, he'll Organizations: Twitter, Meta, ICE Locations: Ukraine

☆ Listen to This American Life: Americans in Paris
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( New York Times Audio | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: ”, Ira Glass, we’ve Organizations: New York Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

Persons: Annie Correal Organizations: New York Times, Times

☆ Listen Early to This American Life: Greetings, People of Earth
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( New York Times Audio | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling, and provides news, depth and serendipity. If you haven’t already, download it here — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. Our new audio app is home to “This American Life,” hosted by Ira Glass. New episodes debut in our app a day earlier than the regular podcast feed, and we’ve also got an archive of the award-winning program. The app includes a “Best of This American Life” section with different acts from the show, broken down into bite-size clips, so you can enjoy the show even if you don’t have a lot of time.

Persons: ”, Ira Glass, we’ve Organizations: New York Times

☆ The Art of Being a Flâneur
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Stephanie Rosenbloom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

I followed the river toward the Uffizi Gallery where I stopped, enchanted by the scene below. It’s “a search for the delectable, delicious, almost gustatory delights of the moment,” as they put it. Other times, an object or architectural detail that piques your interest — a gate, a gargoyle — provides a portal to another time. Stories of vanished ages can be triggered by a single stone, then explored back home through books and websites. Being in a big city among so many strangers can be at turns exhilarating and disturbing.

Persons: Arno, Fred B, Bryant, Joseph Veroff, Puccini’s, Robert K, Merton, Elinor Barber, bento, Amer, plumb, Edgar Allan Poe’s “, Marie Roget, ”, Walter Benjamin, “ Charles Baudelaire Organizations: Uffizi, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House, Columbia University, Science, Metro, Poet Locations: Firenze, Florence, New York, Tokyo, Japan, Istanbul, Paris

☆ This Week in Audio: Biden’s Age, Cringe Comedy and Beyoncé’s World Tour
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( New York Times Audio | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

This week, we traveled to Afghanistan and Ukraine, debated gerontocracy and dove into the golden age of cringe comedy. Welcome to your weekly newsletter from New York Times Audio. The app features exclusive shows, narrated articles and much more, and is included for news subscribers on iOS. Download the app here. Every week, the app’s editors select their favorite listens that provided news, depth and serendipity.

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☆ Bill Gates says an under-the-radar startup could be the biggest winner in AI. Check out its free app, and you'll see why.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-24 | by ( Matt Turner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Bill Gates said the winner in AI will be the company that creates a personal digital agent. Gates added that it's 50-50 as to whether the AI winner behind the digital agent will come from Big Tech or the startup world. The startup was founded by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Deepmind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, and describes itself as an "AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone." And Pi is still a ways away from what Bill Gates is imagining, a personal AI that can do your shopping and help read your emails. But Pi is the best conversational AI I've used so far, and everyone I've spoken to who has used it has been impressed.

Persons: Bill Gates, Pi, it's, Gates, I'd, I'm, I've, Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, Karén, Matt Turner, we've, It's, there's, Spriha Srivistava, that's, Brad Davis, Brad, ChatGPT Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Big Tech, CNBC, LinkedIn, Pi Locations: San Francisco, Instagram

☆ Goldman Sachs created an A.I.-powered social media startup for corporate use
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Now Doctor is hustling to grow his client base beyond the confines of Goldman, whose employees have used Louisa for the past two and a half years. "Think of Louisa as an A.I.-powered LinkedIn on steroids," Doctor, 42, said this week in an interview. Louisa was part of the inaugural class of Goldman's incubator program, which encourages employees with startup ideas to develop them in-house. Rohan Doctor, CEO and founder of Louisa Source: Goldman SachsThere has to be a better way, thought Doctor. The company's name originally referred to Louisa Goldman Sachs, the youngest daughter of Marcus Goldman and wife of Samuel Sachs.

☆ Opinion | The Dramatic, Comic, Tragic, True-Life Story Behind the Death of DVD.com
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Or I can allow for serendipity — movies appear in my mailbox that I barely remember adding in the first place. During the service’s glory days, you could easily sort movies by country of origin and display them in chronological order. This was well before streaming led the company to spin off DVD.com like a discarded training bra, a source of shame to what had become an entertainment behemoth. There is a cost to clinging to products and services as they shuffle off into obsolescence. It mutters out movie dialogue reluctantly, barely exceeding the swooshing sounds of the elliptical treads.

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