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Award-winning costume designer Paul Tazewell talks about the "Wicked" experience.
Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, October 3th
Robotic arms will soon be pouring drinks, washing dishes and making fast food. That’s the dream of Standard Bots founder and CEO Evan Beard, who says fully humanoid robots aren’t necessary. He gave NYNext a tour of this company’s Long Island headquarters to show how they’re changing the game. “You don’t need any code. You...
“If we can automate a lot of the production, we can actually bring jobs back to this country and we can compete on price,” Standard Bots CEO Evan Beard said of building robots to do menial factory tasks.
https://youtu.be/mU3-Ph47p44 The Post’s Lydia Moynihan sits down with the founder and CEO of Standard Bots to get the scoop on how they’re harnessing AI, leading the charge when it comes to American made robotic arms, and appearing in an upcoming Nicole Kidman movie.
South Africa has some of the best resources for wind and solar energy in the world. However, the country battles with grid constraints in areas with higher wind speeds, and little renewable-energy deployment in areas with available grid. The Danish-South African energy cooperation addresses these challenges, write Elsebeth Søndergaard Krone, Ambassador of Denmark to South Africa, and Stine Leth Rasmussen, Deputy Director-General of the Danish Energy Agency
In recent years, Cyprus has been transforming itself from a popular tourist destination into a vibrant entrepreneurial hub. But what is driving this change, and why are so many startups flocking to this Mediterranean island? Stepan Kuzmin, Co-Founder of TellYourStartup, explained that “In recent years, Cyprus has been quietly reinventing itself” adding that “Once primarily […]
Wayne Fernandes is frustrated he's hit a “roadblock” with the Ontario Ministry of Transportation in his attempt to get approval to clean up land along a section of Highway 401 near Guelph.
One year after taking office, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is intent on telling voters his NDP government's issues are the fault of the PC administration his party ousted, while maintaining he'll make inroads on monumental challenges facing the province, such as fixing the health-care system, addressing homelessness and balancing the budget.
Developers find profitable opportunities in the redevelopment of former schools, while the municipality prefers to not be directly involved in such projects.
A former chief administrative officer in western Manitoba is suing the rural municipality he worked for, alleging he was forced to resign after "humiliating, high-handed and embarrassing treatment" by the current reeve.
There was a time Christian Swan would dream about being able to walk again. The 46-year-old has diabetes and had his ankle and foot amputated more than two years ago, following complications from an infection.
Starla Schneider found out she had breast cancer in 2010. Since then, she has endured tests and treatments, surgeries, and most recently, restorative tattooing to recreate her nipples lost during her double mastectomy. Schneider says the tattoos have helped her feel better about what she sees in the mirror.
Plus, one of L.A.'s most celebrated Thai restaurants opens a street-food spot, tandem Japanese restaurants fill a former recording studio, celebrated tacos land in Long Beach and more.
Shanice Dyer, 22, was charged with playing a role in a Pomona murder last month. L.A. Dist. Atty. George Gascón previously declined to try her as an adult for two killings committed as a juvenile.
John didn’t start his career mad. He trained as an emergency medicine doctor in a tidily run Midwestern emergency room about a decade ago. He loved the place, especially the way its management was so responsive to the doctors’ needs, offering extra staffing when things got busy and paid administrative time for teaching other trainees. […]
The Biden administration is putting $1.5 billion toward four electric power projects, including a connection to the Southeast for Texas’s isolated grid, it announced on Thursday. The four projects are expected to improve grid reliability and improve energy access, the Energy Department said in a press release. Collectively, they’re expected to enable 7,100 megawatts of new...
Former President Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) are seeking to soften their stance on abortion and blunt Democratic attacks in the final month before the election. Trump on Tuesday, during the vice presidential debate, declared he would veto any national abortion ban legislation, after previously refusing to say whether he would...
A compounding series of challenges are converging all at once for the White House — port workers are striking, fighting in the Middle East is escalating, and Hurricane Helene has ravaged parts of the southern and eastern U.S., all while a month away from Election Day. The issues unraveling both domestically and internationally is putting...
Western North Carolina, and specifically the Asheville area, had been considered a possible refuge from the impacts of climate change, but it is now suffering some of the worst devastation from Hurricane Helene. The area was dubbed a potential “climate haven” due to its elevation and temperate climates as recently as 2022. The storm and its...
The last of the pandemic-era student loan benefits are gone, winding down four years of additional help to borrowers that advocates say was never actually enough. The Biden administration’s “on-ramp” over the past year concluded at the beginning of October, meaning borrowers will now be penalized for missing payments. Advocates are raising concerns...