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...Character.ai, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed start-up valued at $1bn, uses large language models to generate conversation in the style of individuals such as Tesla chief executive Elon Musk and Nintendo character Mario...
...Additional reporting by Max Seddon in Riga and Richard Waters in San Francisco *This article has been amended to reflect that some of the Starlink terminals were donated to Ukraine by SpaceX...
...Roman elegance is in proportion and standards. Living in a village such as Castel San Pietro has taught us that time travel is indeed possible....
...New York designers Roman and Williams have no such reservations. They bathe in history, reference and memory....
...This week a court unsealed credit card statements from those proceedings provided by Wade’s spouse that showed he had bought plane tickets in his and Willis’s names to destinations including San Francisco...
...We start with the snowy grounds, then add hilltop houses, Roman ruins and a stable for the holy babe to lay....
...This year, the Roman calendar is jam-packed with cultural happenings....
...Spa and Roman baths Six Senses resorts really are all about the spa....
...As for the restaurants, the hero here is San Baylon, which has its own entrance for outside guests, at Via Ripetta 232....
...At the AEA’s annual gathering in San Antonio last weekend, I asked about improvements....
...Nearby is the muqarnas-eaved Church of San Domenico, on the site of what was once probably a madrassa, outside which is a former Sufi shrine that is now a chapel....
...from demolition and certainly one of the world’s great football spectacles on an almost Roman scale....
...My Greeks and Romans knew this too. They divided the world not by race, culture or creed but by climate and ecology....
...Over to my favourite rustic restaurant, El Llar de Viri in the village of San Román, for a big bowl of fabada asturiana, the long-simmered signature dish of beans and smoked sausage, and a bottle of local...
...Twenty-three years after its premiere at the San Francisco Opera, Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking has made its way to New York’s Metropolitan Opera....
...Giovanni de’ Vecchi’s elaborate sketch “Christ in Glory” with six saints, for a Roman church, is more precisely orchestrated and was probably a presentation piece to a patron....
...Appropriately for this ex-bank, the head chef is ex-financier Paola Colucci, who also runs the female-led Roman restaurant Pianostrada with her daughters....
...The ancient Romans may not have known our columnar variety of cypress, but they certainly used branches of evergreen cypress at funerals and linked the tree with death....
...It was surreal to be staying at San Domenico Palace — the front desk! The porcelain busts!...
...By that stage, the manufacture of what would become arguably the world’s most popular clothing staple had decamped to the US, pioneered by a San Francisco dry goods store owner called Levi Strauss....
...The group has previously backed Spanish club Atlético Madrid, the San Diego Padres baseball team, and McLaren Racing, which competes in Formula One....
...For the almost 8km option, from the Duomo turn left into Via Torino, pass by the Colonne di San Lorenzo, with its 16 Roman columns, and keep going towards the Arco di Porta Ticinese, another historic landmark...
...Pope Eugenius IV suggested a simple solution: donate 10,000 florins to the Observant Dominican friars at San Marco....
...“I’d started canvassing people” at dinner parties, he recalls over breakfast, seated under a Mario de’ Fiori still life of flowers. “‘Have you been to Florence?’ ‘Of course!’ ‘And Venice?’...
...Greeks and Romans were sometimes buried with a coin in their mouths to pay Charon. He was the ferryman who transported them to the land of the dead....
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