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American Cities Have a Conversion Problem, and It’s Not Just Offices

Piles of regulations, or “kludge,” and a culture of “no” are limiting the ability to turn building blocks into something new.  » mehr lesen

TikTok Sells A Lot of Books. Now, Its Owner Wants to Publish Them, Too.

As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.  » mehr lesen

How Amazon Taught Alexa to Speak in an Irish Brogue

For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that’s vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement.  » mehr lesen

Don’t Use A.I. to Cheat in School. It’s Better for Studying.

Generative A.I. tools can annotate long documents, make flashcards, and produce practice quizzes.  » mehr lesen

Libor Is Coming to an End

It has been an arduous process to get the financial system to stop relying on the tarnished interest-rate benchmark.  » mehr lesen

Hollywood Actors Extend Contract Talks at Deadline

Their union, SAG-AFTRA, and the major studios pushed the expiration date ahead to July 12 and will keep negotiating.  » mehr lesen

United’s Passengers Were Stuck, but Its C.E.O. Flew on a Private Plane

The airline has had to cancel and delay more flights than other carriers after storms and other problems disrupted air travel around the country this week.  » mehr lesen

Affirmative Action Ruling May Upend Diversity Hiring Policies, Too

The Supreme Court decision on college admissions could lead companies to alter recruitment and promotion practices to pre-empt legal challenges.  » mehr lesen

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