This past weekend, as tourists milled around St. Peter’s Basilica, one of the holiest sites in the world, snapping selfies and experiencing Michelangelo’s art through their phone’s camera lens, 120 students sat in a 500-year-old palazzo a few hundred meters away, coding for 36 hours […]
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Lyon Is the Real Capital of French Food
Long ignored by tourists but adored by chefs as a mecca, Lyon remains France's great gastronomic secret. Our food critic, Brett ….. Or as Abbie Hoffman wrote (after a stint traveling across Europe cadging meals with a forged Playboy credential): “Ego seems to have been […]
The best 2-in-1 laptops of 2017: Top hybrid laptops ranked
Convertible and detachable 2-in-1 laptops may only have been around for a handful of years now, but pretty much everyone has taken a liking to them. These tablets-that-double-as-laptops aren’t as limited in functionality as iPads and Android slates, but they’re far better travelers than traditional […]
Parisians so fed up with long commutes they’d rather take a pay cut
And in October a ranking of the best and worst Metro lines was revealed, with the stats put together by transport authority Île-de-France Mobilites showing that … And 45 percent of respondents living in Paris said they aren't satisfied with their travel time compared to […]
New story in Technology from Time: Dubai Decrees Itself the A.I. City-State of the Future
There’s no direct flight from Dubai to Detroit. So when the three co-founders of Dubai-based Derq, a traffic-safety startup, need to get to the carmaking capital of the U.S., they take a connecting flight on Air France through Paris or on Emirates through Boston. That […]
The Morning After: Elon Musk at SXSW 2018
SXSW kicked off over the weekend and there’s the usual mix of insipid tangential corporate brand activations, deep-and-meaningful panels and just outright silly things for our team to check out. Already, we witnessed Musk in action, Sony’s slightly sweaty experiential tour and more… weird. The […]
President Begins Visit to Argentina, Meets with Diaspora
During the tour, which will last until 20 March, Grabar-Kitarović will also visit Chile and Brazil. She attended mass celebrated in Basilica de Lujan. "I am happy that my visit started with mass with the Croat community… I would like to thank all of you […]
NHL’s first eSports tournament begins March 24th
The regional competitions will stream live on Twitch and broadcast on national TV networks. Viasat will air the European event on May 6th, while Rogers’ Sportsnet will broadcast the Canadian event on May 11th; Americans have to wait until May 20th for their regional final, […]
The Best Drives in the South of France: Enjoy Classic Car Touring in Provence
Now picture yourself: you are driving a stunning convertible classic English car, the wind in your hair with the Mediterranean sun shining above you. What a perfect way to experience the wonderful Provençal scenery with its vineyards, olive groves and charming farmhouses in an authentic […]
Sophisticated malware attacks through routers
Kaspersky describes these two elements as “masterpieces,” and for good reason. For one, it’s no mean feat to run hostile kernel code without crashes. Slingshot also stores its malware files in an encrypted virtual file system, encrypts every text string in its modules, calls services […]