When Season 3 of “The Bear” dropped last week, fans and food-world insiders got yet another chance to play restaurant-culture bingo. The incessant precision-snipping of green tape for the labeling of peas shelled during prep? Check. The “fancy, new earthenware” plates the restaurant’s financial backer derided as he surveyed the allocation of his funds? Yes….
Is Katie Boulter the real deal? The British No 1 is ready to embrace the Wimbledon spotlight when she opens her campaign against German Tatjana Maria today. The 27-year-old goes into the tournament as the leading home hope for success in the women’s draw having maintained her upward trajectory for more than a year. Boulter…
Something was in the air — though Tomi Adeyemi couldn’t quite say what. It wasn’t the sweltering heat of a New York City summer, nor the perfume of the sweat that had gathered atop our skin. “What’s your sign?” Adeyemi immediately asked me, before we even began to talk about her new book. Aquarius, I…
Las herramientas de inteligencia artificial pueden crear rostros y fotografías realistas, y cada vez son mejores. Ahora aparecen regularmente imágenes falsas en las redes sociales, y muchos usuarios parecen creer que son reales. Pero todavía hay algunos signos reveladores de que una imagen ha sido creada por la inteligencia artificial. ¿Sabes distinguirlos? Responde a nuestro…
Artificial intelligence tools can create lifelike faces and realistic photographs — and they are getting better all the time. The phony images now appear regularly on social media, with many users seeming to believe that the images are real. But there are still some telltale signs that an image was made by A.I. Can you…
Vinicius Jr said racists should be “afraid” after three Valencia fans were each sentenced to eight months in prison for abusing him during a match last year. The sentences are the first convictions connected to racist abuse in football in Spain, and the Real Madrid forward welcomed the decision to issue custodial sentences to the…
Santi Cazorla is taking part in a virtual press conference to preview the Spanish second division play-offs. Real Oviedo, his boyhood club, the club to which he returned last year, aged 38, asking not to be paid a salary, are preparing to face Eibar in the semi-finals. It will be a momentous occasion. Oviedo have…
Jude Bellingham slipped in Vinicius Jr to score and Real Madrid’s key forward pair had done it. A Champions League trophy delivered without a recognised, world-class No 9 in the team. All the talk before, during and after Saturday’s win over Borussia Dortmund at Wembley surrounded how Carlo Ancelotti has masterminded another Real success having…
Real Madrid have announced the signing of Kylian Mbappe on a free transfer after the France captain left Paris Saint-Germain. The 25-year-old, who is PSG’s record goalscorer with 256 goals in 308 appearances, has signed a five-year contract at the Bernabeu worth €15m (£12.8m) a year after tax. He will receive a signing-on bonus of…
Like the Hamptons itself, where white-sand beaches and white-glove service await those with enough equity each summer, the reality TV show “Selling the Hamptons” is an escape and an indulgence. Now in its second season on Max, the streaming service formerly known as HBO Max, the show follows the cast in the storied vacationland of…
