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10 pieces of tech jargon that confused us in 2025
New York Times, Published on 01/01/2026
» NEW YORK — As a tech journalist for the past 20 years, I have had a front-row seat to the slow death of the English language, driven by the engineers and marketers of Silicon Valley who use clunky abbreviations, awkward jargon and meaningless superlatives to describe the latest innovations.
New photos from Titanic show long-lost statue and damaged bow
New York Times, Published on 04/09/2024
» NEW YORK - In its first expedition to the Titanic in 14 years, the company with exclusive salvage rights to the wreckage site said it had located a bronze statue thought to have been lost forever, and it also discovered some deterioration of the ship.
Conan O’Brien’s career is still evolving after Late Night
New York Times, Published on 21/06/2024
» NEW YORK - After hosting talk shows for nearly three decades, Conan O'Brien has come to believe that longevity is overrated. The first time he made this point to me was when he proposed that all statues and monuments should be made with durable soap that dissolves in seven years. A month later, he declared himself anti-graveyard.
Nvidia becomes most valuable public company, topping Microsoft
New York Times, Published on 19/06/2024
» SAN FRANCISCO — Move over, Microsoft and Apple. The stock market has a new king.
First ship carrying food aid arrives in Gaza
New York Times, Published on 16/03/2024
» GAZA - A humanitarian aid ship has arrived off the Gaza Strip for the first time since the start of the war, a first step in a fledgling maritime operation to bring more aid to hungry Palestinians as aid groups say that Israel is restricting more efficient deliveries by road.
Food export bans in Asia prompt fears of more protectionism
New York Times, Published on 11/06/2022
» As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helped push global agricultural prices to soaring heights, some Asian governments restricted the export of products they viewed as essential to domestic food security.
Millions more invested in lab-grown foie gras
New York Times, Published on 21/07/2021
» Can foie gras grown in a lab taste just as decadent and creamy as that made from farm-raised ducks or geese?
In fragrant street food, city planners see a mess
New York Times, Published on 15/12/2019
» The coconut wood pestle hits the mortar, and the chili fumes rise in a cough-inducing haze. The lime rind bruises. Salted crab releases its funk, along with bits of claw and carapace.