By Ingrid K. Williams Photographs by Tony Cenicola Ingrid K. Williams, a regular contributor to the Travel section, lives in Brooklyn and often visits the Hudson Valley. April 10, 2025 For a weekend escape within a two-hour (or so) drive or train ride of New York City, the Hudson Valley is hard to beat. There…
SoftBank said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay $6.5 billion for the Silicon Valley chip start-up Ampere Computing, doubling down on a bet that technology that originated in smartphones will come to dominate the world’s data centers. The deal also reflects the Japanese conglomerate’s belief that Ampere’s chips can begin to play a…
It costs about 14 euros, or about $15, per minute to drive a rented Lamborghini on the public roads of northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region. This feels especially exorbitant in a place where a couple of coins buys a glass of world-class wine. Even more grating, however, is that the experience is actually worth the money….
