DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

A banana duct-taped to a white wall — or an acclaimed piece of art, depending how you look at it — sold at a Sotheby's auction for $6.24 million on Wednesday. The artwork debuted at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2019 and was initially estimated to sell around $1.5 million, according to Sotheby's. At one point, someone even took the banana off the wall and ate it. According to Sotheby's, Cattelan "single-handedly prompted the world to reconsider how we define art, and the value we seek in it." As Galperin put it, "There is no better forum to adjudicate the value of art and a single object than the platform of auction."

Persons: —, Maurizio Cattelan's, Nancy Durrant, Maurizio Cattelan, David Galperin, Sotheby's, rhapsodically, Durrant, Lucius Elliot, Durrant —, Elliot, Maurizio, Emmanuel Perrotin, Perrotin, Galperin Organizations: Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel, Americas, New, New York Post, Vogue Locations: New York

☆ When a millennial moved to Detroit from SF, he bought a home and opened a coffee shop. He said that would have been impossible on the West Coast.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( John Towfighi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

David Valdez, 35, moved to Detroit from San Francisco in 2018. Valdez moved to Detroit for better job opportunities and to be with his partner, Juna Durrant, who is from Michigan. In San Francisco, Valdez said he worked two jobs and lived with roommates just to get by. At the time, Valdez worked at various cafés in Detroit, including Astro, a coffee shop in the historic Corktown neighborhood. "If I stayed in San Francisco, I wouldn't even begin to try to open a coffee shop," Valdez said.

Persons: David Valdez, he's, Valdez, —, I've, Juna Durrant, Durrant, Detroit Valdez, San, California Valdez, refinanced Organizations: Service, Census Bureau, Starbucks, Astro, Business, David Locations: Detroit, San Francisco, Michigan, California, Mexico City, Alba, Mexican, David Valdez, ProsperUs, Corktown

☆ A California police force is in trouble with Lego after using its signature yellow heads to hide the faces of suspected criminals
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A South California police department has been editing Lego heads onto suspects to protect their identity. AdvertisementA Southern California police department has found itself in trouble with Lego after it started editing the toy company's famous yellow heads onto criminal suspects. Screenshots show Lego faces edited onto suspects and posted to the Murrieta PD's Instagram page. The department may now have to turn to its stash of Barbie and Shrek faces, which also appear on the Instagram page, to protect suspects' anonymity. "Do they want people, who are being paid with their tax dollars, be paid to put Lego faces on people so it can be shown on social media?

Persons: —, Bill, Jeremy Durrant, " Durrant, Corey Jackson, Jackson Organizations: Service, Southern, Police, Murrieta Police Department, Lego, Fox News Digital, California Assembly, Associated Press Locations: California, Danish, Southern California, Murrieta, Los Angeles

The Murrieta Police Department has been using Lego heads and emojis to cover people's faces in posts on social sites since at least early 2023. “Why the covered faces?” the department wrote March 18 in an Instagram post that featured five people in a lineup, their faces covered by Lego heads with varying expressions. The post went on to reference a California law that took effect Jan. 1, limiting departments in sharing mugshots on social media. The California law’s primary sponsor, Assemblymember Corey Jackson, said that while the Lego heads protect people's privacy, he wonders how Murrieta residents see it. “Do they want people, who are being paid with their tax dollars, be paid to put Lego faces on people so it can be shown on social media?

Persons: “, Jeremy Durrant, ” Durrant, Assemblymember Corey Jackson, ” Jackson, “ That’s, Jackson, ” Organizations: ANGELES, Murrieta Police Department, Associated Press, Department of Justice Locations: Southern California, California

☆ Vital Places of Refuge in the Bronx, Community Gardens Gain Recognition
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( David Gonzalez | José A. Alvarado Jr. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sheryll Durrant left her family farm in Jamaica in 1989 and embarked on a career in corporate marketing. Now she runs a thriving urban farm wedged into a triangular plot in the Bronx, between the Grand Concourse and the Metro North railroad tracks. “Just putting your hands in soil is a form of healing,” Ms. Durrant, 63, said. The plot she has managed with volunteers for eight years sits on city land and is among more than 500 community gardens in New York City. About a third of them have sprouted in the Bronx, where the gardens are emerald oases, providing residents a respite from hot, treeless streets clogged with traffic, as well as a bounty of locally grown food.

Persons: Sheryll Durrant, “, Ms, Durrant Organizations: Metro, International Rescue Committee Locations: Jamaica, Bronx, New York City

☆ Ketamine is being sold as a depression wonder drug. For some, it's making everything worse.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +42 min

The infusions at the ketamine clinic in his West Texas hometown were a Christmas gift from his grandmother. About five years ago, more and more of my friends started using ketamine recreationally. IV ketamine treatment centers charging $400 to $2,000 an infusion popped up all over the country. "Ketamine used as directed in an appropriate clinical setting very rarely leads to any dependence," Mindbloom says on its website. Like Nadia, most of the people I interviewed said when they started using ketamine, they didn't think it was possible to become dependent on it.

REUTERS/Carlos BarriaSTOCKHOLM/BERLIN, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Over a dozen automakers including Toyota (7203.T) and Nissan (7201.T), have signed up with a platform for patent licences from 51 tech companies, aiming to simplify access to wireless technology and avoid costly legal battles. Conflicts have stemmed in part from different views among carmakers, suppliers and tech firms over who should shoulder the cost of licensing. Mercedes-Benz (MBGn.DE), then Daimler, ended a years-long dispute over its patent use last year with Nokia after being eventually forced to pay. "Usually suppliers handle patents in the development process – telecoms is the one area where they don't," the person, who declined to be named, said. Avanci is also working with companies on a new contract to cover 5G patents, which would likely be more expensive than the current patent portfolio.

Search resuls for: "Durrant"

7 mentions found