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Installed on vintage hardware at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, arranged in chronological order, the first survey of the career of innovative net artist Auriea Harvey tells a story about mortality and survival.In Harvey's treasure chest worlds, there are no heroes or villains, only people, forgiving and loving, caught in the wake of technology.Harvey, born in 1971 in Indianapolis, helped expand the perspectives of digital art: utopias, games, accidents and everything in between. In the 1990s, he created revolutionary images with GIFs, Shockwave animations, and the HTML and Java programming languages. His lavish personal website, Entropy8.com, restored for the show, won Webby Awards in 1997 and '98.In recent years, Harvey has turned to sculpting fictional yet ...

The men sat in rows, handcuffed and blindfolded, unable to see the Israeli soldiers who stood watch over them from the other side of a mesh fence.They were barred from talking more loudly than a murmur, and forbidden to stand or sleep except when authorized.A few knelt in prayer. One was being inspected by a paramedic. Another was briefly allowed to remove his handcuffs to wash himself. The hundreds of other Gazan detainees sat in silence. They were all cut off from the outside world, prevented for weeks from contacting lawyers or relatives.This was the scene one afternoon in late May at a military hangar inside Sde Teiman, an army base in southern Israel that has become synonymous with the detention of Gazan Palestinians. Most Gazans captured since the start of the war on Oct. 7 have been...

A panel of advisors to the Food and Drug Administration voted Wednesday to update the COVID-19 vaccine formula ahead of a planned fall immunization campaign, now an annual step to try to offer better protection against circulating versions of the virus.The unanimous vote of 16 advisers recommends a formula aimed at combating the JN.1 variant, which dominated infections in the United States in February, or a version of it. In recent weeks, JN.1 has been overtaken by descendants known as KP.2 and KP.3.In the coming weeks, the FDA is expected to formally recommend a target variant to vaccine makers for the next round of vaccinations in late summer or early fall. Any decision involves some educated guesswork, given that any new vaccine formula won't be available until months after a vari...

A professional skier and his girlfriend died when they fell more than 2,000 feet while climbing a mountain in the Italian Alps, the country's sports officials said.The death of the two, Jean Daniel Pession and Elisa Arlian, was denounced by FISI, the Italian winter sports federation, which defined the episode as an "accident" and a "terrible tragedy".Mr Pession and Ms Arlian, both Italian, on Saturday were climbing a ridge dividing the east and north faces of Monte Zerbion, a mountain in the Pennine Alps that they both knew well. As often happens on climbs of this type, they were tied together. They were alone, so it's not known exactly how or why they fell.When his family reported his disappearance, rescuers started searching. A helicopter equipped with equipment capable of det...

Electric cars are more expensive than petrol ones, mainly because the batteries cost a lot. But new technology could turn these expensive devices into an asset, offering owners benefits such as reduced utility bills, lower rents or free parking.Ford Motor, General Motors, BMW and other automakers are exploring how electric car batteries could be used to store excess renewable energy to help utilities manage fluctuations in energy supply and demand. Automakers would earn money by acting as intermediaries between car owners and energy suppliers.Millions of cars could be thought of as a huge energy system that, for the first time, will be connected to another huge energy system, the electric grid, said Matthias Preindl, associate professor of power electronic systems at Columbia University....

Wandering alone along the southern fringes of Saudi Arabia’s mountainous Asir Province, some eight miles from the Yemeni border, in a nondescript town with a prominent sculpture of a rifle balanced on an ornately painted plinth, I met a man, Nawab Khan, who was building a palace out of mud.Actually, he was rebuilding the structure, restoring it. And when I came across him, he hadn’t yet begun his work for the day; he was seated on the side of the road beneath its red-and-white windows — cross-legged, on a rug, leaning over a pot of tea and a bowl of dates.Two weeks earlier, on the far side of the country, a fellow traveler had pointed at a map and described the crumbling buildings here, in Dhahran al-Janub, arranged in a colorful open-air museum. Finding myself nearby, I’d detoured to have...

One of the nation's leading medical advisory organizations has weighed in on long-term Covid with a 265-page report that recognizes the severity and persistence of the condition for millions of Americans.More than four years into the coronavirus pandemic, long Covid continues to harm many people's ability to function, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a nongovernmental institution that advises federal agencies on subject of science and medicine.“Long Covid can impact people across the lifespan, from children to older adults, as well as across sex, gender, racial, ethnic and other demographic groups,” he said, concluding that “the Long Covid is associated with a wide range of new or worsening health conditions and includes more than 200 sympt...

Amanda Knox, an American convicted and later cleared of killing her roommate while they studied in Italy, lost another trial in an Italian court on Wednesday against defamation charges linked to the 2007 murder.Ms. Knox was convicted by a Florence court on charges of defaming a man who ran a bar where she worked, falsely accusing him of killing her roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in 2007. Ms. Knox was convicted by court to three years in prison, time he has already served.Ms Knox was initially found guilty of defaming the man, Diya Lumumba, also known as Patrick, in 2009, a conviction upheld by various Italian courts. At the time of the murder, Mr Lumumba ran a bar called Le Chic where Ms Knox worked part-time.Ms. Knox declined to speak to reporters after Wednesday's sentencin...

Israel organized and funded an influence campaign last year aimed at U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messages, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war with Gaza, according to officials involved in the initiative and related documents to the conflict. operation.The covert campaign was commissioned by Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, a government body that connects Jews around the world with the State of Israel, four Israeli officials said. According to officials and documents, the ministry allocated about $2 million for the operation and hired Stoic, a Tel Aviv political marketing firm, to carry it out.The campaign began in October and remains active on Platform X. At its peak, it used hundreds of fake accounts posing as real Americans on ...

The House voted mostly along party lines Tuesday to impose sweeping sanctions on International Criminal Court officials, rebuking efforts by the court's top prosecutor to charge top Israeli leaders with war crimes in connection with the offensive against Hamas.The bill would force President Biden to restrict entry to the United States, revoke visas and impose financial restrictions on anyone in court who is involved in attempting to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute “protected persons” or allies of the United States . It would also target anyone providing “financial, material or technological support” to such efforts.Biden's advisers said he is "strongly opposed" to the measure because it would impose sanctions on such a broad group of officials, including court staff membe...