A man blows a shofar, or ram’s horn, during a Rosh Hashanah ritual in Israel. Ariel Schalit/AP hide caption toggle caption Ariel Schalit/AP (RNS and NPR) It can be the small, curved horn of a ram or the dramatic spiral of an African antelope. The sound it creates is unmistakable. Creating that sound is not […]

PS Photography | Lena FeltonPS Photography | Lena Felton Ten years ago, I spent a summer in New York City, living out my dream of working at a magazine. I was in college, and my best friend and I managed to find two month-long sublets in Williamsburg — which, at that time, was the coolest […]

During its Sept. 9 keynote, Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Ultra 4, both of which will come with a feature that passively listens to your audio conversations all day and can summarize them for you on demand. It’s part of a collection of features called “Audio Intelligence,” but the two key […]

www.bbc.co.uk Three Hong Kong activists who organised annual vigils commemorating Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests have been handed prison sentences of up to seven years. Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, were convicted last month of inciting others to subvert state power, under the city’s controversial national security law. A third defendant, […]

“I get it she’s in Italy but on a BOAT with only her family. Plus she’s the only doing it as far as we know which is even more weird,” someone else said, while one more user added, “I have to say as someone living in central Europe, being naked/topless in public beaches isn’t uncommon at all, […]