Call it The Daily Show for the CNBC set. That’s how Elizabeth Spiers, a former New York magazine reporter and founding editor of infamous celebrity-gossip …
“There are good people here,” enthused a giddy, well-coifed flack. And wasn’t that Michael Milken? Fifteen minutes before the Contemporary Asian auction began, a dull …
The sprawling Whitney Biennial can be challenging enough for visitors to navigate, even those armed with an exhibition catalog and audio guide. At least one …
The long-gone empires of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome were every bit as exciting as anything in Tolkien or EverQuest. Now Michael Griffin, a 23-year-old …
Can a videogame train players in real-world political change?
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In a move with potentially far-reaching implications for the search market, Alexa Internet is opening up its huge web crawler to any programmer who wants …