HARTEBEESTPOORT, South Africa — With its roof on the ground and its floor in the air, an upside down house is attracting tourists who want to see the world from different perspective. Located near Hartebeestpoort, about 47 miles north of Johannesburg, the house is inverted on the outside and inside. Visitors take pictures of themselves...
Interested in building a fantasy home that looks like a boot? Or a UFO? Or some other unusual design? Airbnb is setting aside $1 million and enlisting the help of Billy Porter to make it a reality. The company is launching a competition to create the “most unconventional and unusual liveable spaces on the planet,”...
Six in 10 Americans are turning to tech to aid their sleep, according to new research. From using smartphones to set their bedtime and apps to limit evening screen time, to using a watch to note their biometrics, 57 percent say tech has been beneficial in improving their sleep. Sleep isn’t as simple as just...
A coronavirus hospital ward staffed by robots to protect medics from the deadly bug has opened in Wuhan. The program, launched Saturday at the Wuchang field hospital, will see the 5G-powered bots carry out tasks including taking patients’ temperatures, delivering meals and disinfecting the facility. It will also enable doctors to read patients’ vitals remotely,...
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan – Students at an elementary school in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung have found their own unique way to fight the coronavirus and stay ahead of the curve in epidemic prevention – an automated disinfectant dispenser built from Lego. Children ranging from six to 12 years old use every school break and...
It means that the last-ever Playmate of the Year will be 2019’s Jordan Emanuel.
A bitterly controversial proposal to expand Brooklyn’s Industry City got a boost on Monday when Borough President Eric Adams conditionally approved most of the plan’s major elements and left open the door to approving the rest. Site owners Belvedere Capital, Jamestown and Angelo Gordon & Co. want to change Industry City’s zoning to allow them...
There’s an overlooked trend in the red-hot downtown office market — a migration to the FiDi/World Trade Center area of fashion firms. Tenants in the fashion business grew from 0.9 percent of the area’s total inventory 10 years ago to nearly 3 percent, according to CBRE and the Downtown Alliance. Although they pose no threat...
The National Magazine Awards scheduled for March 12 are being postponed due to the coronavirus. For the first time in the 55-year history, the annual ceremony known as the Academy Awards of the magazine publishing world has been pulled. The event, which had been scheduled to take place at Brooklyn Steel, a music venue in...
It’s municipal government — not Mission Impossible! Good government groups demanded Monday that Mayor Bill de Blasio end his staff’s use of messaging apps that encrypt and automatically delete messages, because they provide a powerful and easy tool to circumvent the state’s open government laws. “We write to ask that your office require city employees,...
