Author: NY TIMES

Finally, 106 days after the ambulances rushed their battered bodies to the hospital, the couple were cleared to leave.Ibrahim Karapirli hobbled back from physical therapy on crutches to protect his aching leg. His wife, Pinar, wrangled their twin toddlers, unsure how she would care for them with her one remaining arm.The couple were still mourning their two sons who were killed when a powerful earthquake pancaked their six-story apartment building in southern Turkey before dawn last February.Ibrahim and Pinar piled about a dozen plastic bags holding their possessions atop a wheelchair, bade the nurses goodbye and went to their car.“God,…

President Hage G. Geingob of Namibia, who took office in 2015 and previously served as the country’s first prime minister after independence, died early Sunday. He was 82.The presidential office announced his death in a statement on social media that was attributed to Vice President Nangolo Mbumba, now the acting president.Mr. Geingob, who had been receiving treatment for cancer, died at a hospital in the capital, Windhoek, just after midnight, the statement said.He was Namibia’s first prime minister from 1990, the year that the country gained independence from South Africa, until 2002. He served again in that role 10 years…

¿Tu ansiedad dominical alguna vez ha dado paso a un “Nervioso océano de lunes por la mañana”? ¿El fin de semana realmente comienza el viernes o un “Caótico y libertino jueves por la tarde”? ¿Cómo hay que vestirse para una “Noche de oscuro cabaret paranormal”?Estas extrañas cadenas de palabras son los títulos de las “listas del día” (“Daylists”), una reciente oferta de Spotify, el gigante de la emisión en continuo de música. Esta función ofrece a los usuarios tres nuevas listas de reproducción al día generadas por algoritmos, cada una con un título tan específico que prácticamente pide a gritos…

A lot of heat, but will there be regulation?Five technology C.E.O.s endured hours of grilling by senators on both sides of the aisle about their apparent failures to make their platforms safer for children, with some lawmakers accusing them of having “blood” on their hands.But for all of the drama, including Mark Zuckerberg of Meta apologizing to relatives of online child sex abuse victims, few observers believe that there’s much chance of concrete action.“Your product is killing people,” Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, flatly told Zuckerberg at Wednesday’s hearing. Over 3.5 hours, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee laid…

General Motors said on Tuesday that its profit in the final three months of 2023 was depressed by the cost of a 40-day strike at some of its U.S. plants and an accounting charge related to electric vehicles.The automaker, which has been banking on a rapid rise in sales of battery-powered models, earned $2.1 billion in the fourth quarter, it said, up from $2.0 billion a year earlier. G.M.’s revenue jumped about 10 percent, to $171.8 billion.“The pace of E.V. growth has slowed, which has created some uncertainty,” the company’s chief financial officer, Paul Jacobson, said in a conference call.The…

‘Laced’Rent or buy it on major platforms.The writer-director Kyle Butenhoff wastes no time explaining his film’s central dastardly deed: Molly (Dana Mackin) poisons the meal she makes one wintry night for her husband, Charlie (Butenhoff), for whom she’s been harboring deep resentments. The trouble is her food wasn’t spiked strongly enough, leaving Charlie sick, not dead. Molly can’t bring herself to suffocate him, so her co-conspirator and lover, Victoria (Hermione Lynch), comes over to finish the job. That’s when Molly’s brother, Austin (Zach Tinker, excellent) shows up, and the film starts leveling up head-snapping twists before a bloody and delirious…

Hırpalanmış bedenleri ambulansla hastaneye getirildikten tam 106 gün sonra, Karapirli çifti artık evlerine gidebilirdi.İbrahim Karapirli, halen ağrıyan bacağının üzerine basmamak için kullandığı koltuk değnekleriyle, fizik tedaviden odasına geri dönüyordu. İbrahim’in eşi, Pınar, bebeklikten henüz çıkmakta olan ikizlere geriye kalan tek koluyla nasıl bakacağından endişeli, hastaneden çıkabilmek için çocukları hazır etmeye çalışıyordu.6 Şubat’ta meydana gelen ilk deprem, yaşadıkları apartmanı yerle bir ettiğinde, iki oğullarını da İbrahim ve Pınar’dan kopardı. Çift hâlâ onların yasını tutmaktaydı.İbrahim ve Pınar, hastane odasındaki eşyalarını 15-20 tane naylon poşete doldurdu; poşetleri de bir tekerlekli sandalyenin üzerine yığdı. Hemşirelere ve hastabakıcılara veda edip, arabalarına bindiler.Pınar “Allah’ım bizi bir…

Ukrainian officials were quick to thank the European Union Thursday for approving an assistance package of about $54 billion, funds that will help alleviate a potentially severe financial crisis.The money will cover pensions, payments to people displaced by war and routine outlays such as salaries for teachers and doctors.But in thanking his European neighbors, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, also alluded to uncertainty over future American support, which Ukraine also needs. A $60 billion aid package for Ukraine is currently languishing in the United States Congress.Europe’s commitment, Mr. Zelensky said, would “send a signal across the Atlantic.”“Europe sets the tone for…

Algunas mañanas pueden parecer excepcionalmente hermosas sin razón aparente. Una mañana de hace muchos años, 18 meses después de que mi mujer y yo nos mudáramos a Nueva York desde Daca, Bangladés, mi corazón se sentía tranquilo. El sol brillaba con fuerza, disipando la penumbra que había nublado el cielo durante días. Quizá me sentía bien por eso.Desde la cama, me asomé por la ventana de nuestro departamento de Queens para ver los árboles del Captain Tilly Park y vi un pájaro posado en una rama, con las plumas alborotadas por el viento. Al cabo de unos instantes, se fue…

A.I. and cost cuts lift Big Tech Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta endured a grilling on Capitol Hill and publicly apologized to relatives of victims of online abuse. Little more than a day later, he had a lot to crow about, as his business delivered some of its best quarterly earnings in years.Meta’s results illustrate how the most recent earnings season has gone for Big Tech: a mostly positive period in which companies that could claim the benefits of artificial intelligence and cost-cutting were hailed the most on Wall Street.Meta shot the lights out. After years of facing…