Tech industry workers face dating difficulties due to public backlash against major tech companies. Singles employed at firms like Palantir and Tesla encounter skepticism and rejection from potential partners who object to their employers' controversial practices, from surveillance work to political influence and labor issues.
Katz's Delicatessen charges a $50 fee for lost tickets, a policy introduced about 10 years ago to prevent fraudulent use of found tickets and encourage customers to search for them. Management justified the fee as necessary given the restaurant's high daily volume of around 1,000–2,000 customers, though the charge may conflict with NYC consumer protection laws prohibiting unauthorized surcharges.
An Installer newsletter roundup featuring Google's new Googlebooks laptops with 10-year update commitments, Meta's camera-free Ray-Ban audio glasses, Remedy's Control sequel set in Manhattan, and releases from Konami, Peloton, Microsoft, and Logitech. The author also highlights staff member Brad Bourque and his tech preferences.
Control Resonant, Remedy's sequel to 2019's Control, rewards players who read its extensive in-game documents, which include enemy logs, reports, and memos. Beyond providing tactical information about enemy weaknesses, these optional texts feature clever writing and an unfolding workplace romance between two FBC analysts documenting the game's threats.
Christophe Laudamiel is a French master perfumer and scent artist who works in Manhattan and Tokyo, challenging conventional perfumery by treating smell as an artistic and intellectual medium alongside visual art and music. Drawing from a multicultural childhood across France, Italy, New Caledonia, and Thailand, he has developed scent installations and experimental projects that explore olfaction's capacity to preserve memory and create emotional worlds. His work demonstrates perfumery as an intersection of botany, chemistry, art, ecology, and ethics.
Remedy Entertainment has announced post-launch plans for Control Resonant, including New Game Plus Plus arriving in October, a Photo Mode coming in November, and additional cosmetic outfits. The features will allow players to carry progress through multiple playthroughs and customize the protagonist Dylan Faden's appearance.
Yamtam.nyc is a mass-transit guide to New York City that explains Manhattan's grid system, street and avenue patterns, and how to navigate the city using public transportation. The site provides detailed information about Manhattan's layout, notable exceptions to the grid, and self-guided tours for visitors exploring different neighborhoods and attractions.
A delivery worker followed Raul Morales, accused of stabbing two men on the Upper West Side in July, to his apartment building and rode the elevator with him. Morales allegedly stabbed a 57-year-old Asian-American man and a 50-year-old Jewish man with a screwdriver; prosecutors have charged him with hate crimes based on antisemitic messages found on his phone.
Tech industry workers face dating difficulties as public perception of the sector has deteriorated. Singles employed at companies like Palantir and Tesla report that revealing their employers triggers negative reactions from prospective partners, forcing many to conceal their workplace or fabricate alternative explanations for their careers.
A 2015 essay examines how privacy threats evolve faster than solutions, with surveillance capabilities from drones to smartphones continually replacing previous concerns. The author argues that rather than privacy being a lost cause, we need to redefine the concept, citing a Brookings Institution paper that challenges the assumption technology inevitably erodes privacy, suggesting new technologies may also provide privacy benefits.
The PC version of ControlResonant, a sci-fi action game by Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment, leaked online a day before its September 24, 2026 release due to the absence of Denuvo Anti-Tamper protection. The game will launch on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store as scheduled.
CONTROL Resonant, Remedy Entertainment's 2026 sequel powered by the Northlight Engine, demands significant PC resources with ray tracing and path tracing effects, but offers optimization flexibility without sacrificing visual quality. The game features detailed environments, advanced lighting, and physics-driven destruction, though Ultra settings remain extremely demanding even for high-end hardware.
Insomnia Cookies, founded in 2003 as a dorm delivery service, has maintained consistent product quality over two decades while raising prices significantly—from 89 cents to $2.54 per cookie. The article argues that private equity ownership has driven scalability and price increases while maintaining the brand's appeal through reliable, simple recipes that prioritize margins over artisanal quality.