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Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images The true believers within the Trump administration love the idea of the border wall on the U.S.–Mexico border, and like any beloved item in 2019, they intend to overexpose it online. According to a report from the Washington Post, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is leading a push to livestream construction of the southern border wall 24 hours a day, to the chagrin of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Army Corps of Engineers. “There will be a wall cam, and it’ll launch early next year,” a senior White House official involved in the plan told the Post. If the plan goes through, Trump’s son-in-law will largely be to thank: Since July, he has scheduled border-wall meetings every two weeks to press for quicker construction and dismiss excuses. (Despite his impossibly busy schedule and underwhelming track record, Trump has tasked Kushner to manage the border-wall messaging since he became frustrated … [Read more...] about Jared Kushner Wants a 24/7 Livestream of Border-Wall Construction: Report

Taylor Swift has used facial recognition at concerts to screen for stalkers. Photo: Gareth Cattermole/TAS18/Getty Images for TAS/2018 Gareth Cattermole/TAS18 On Friday, August 16, at around 7 a.m., a pair of suspicious appliances was found on a subway platform at the Fulton Street station in lower Manhattan and, an hour later, a third near a garbage can on West 16th Street. Initially, police thought they might be improvised bombs, like the shrapnel-filled pressure cookers that blew up at the 2013 Boston Marathon and in Chelsea in 2016, but upon inspection they turned out to be harmless empty rice cookers, probably meant to scare but not explode. Trains were delayed during the morning commute, but since that happens often enough without any terrorist help at all, the scariest thing about this episode may have been the way the alleged perpetrator was caught. Minutes after the discovery, the NYPD pulled images of a man leaving the devices from subway surveillance cameras and gave them … [Read more...] about There Will Be No Turning Back on Facial Recognition

Gaze across the Salton Sea, a sparkling oasis in the California desert, and you’ll see white plumes of steam rising against the hazy Chocolate Mountains.The steam comes from 11 geothermal power plants, nestled between the accidental lake and the verdant farm fields of the Imperial Valley. The area has been churning out climate-friendly geothermal energy since the 1980s, long before solar panels and wind turbines became cheap and abundant.The geothermal plants could soon contribute to California’s war against climate change in a new way: by producing lithium, a key ingredient in batteries that power electric cars and store solar power for use after dark.Companies have tried for decades to extract lithium from the super-heated underground fluid used for energy generation at the southern end of the Salton Sea, home to one of the world’s most powerful natural geothermal hot spots. Just a few years ago, a technology start-up called Simbol Materials went bust shortly after … [Read more...] about Lithium will fuel the clean energy boom. This company may have a breakthrough

Illustration: Robert Beatty This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. “The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.” When the novelist William Gibson said this — probably in the late ’80s, though, like a lot of prophetic aphorisms, when he first said it is not exactly clear — he was describing distribution by place: iPhones arriving en masse in Steve Jobs’s United States, all-inclusive social-credit scores blanketing Xi Jinping’s China, antibiotic-resistant superbugs cropping up in India before spreading as far as the Arctic, climate change flooding the Ganges Delta in Bangladesh long before it conquers New York or Tokyo. But the distribution is uneven in time, too, because the future never arrives all at once with the thunderclap of a brave new world suddenly supplanting the comfortable old one. Which is why future-gazers like … [Read more...] about The Weirdness Is Coming

Whether or not you believe Zoë Saldana is the biggest black actress in Hollywood—a case made stronger by the prolonged absence of Halle Berry—she’s certainly one of a very small handful of black actresses who can play the lead in a Hollywood film, let alone the highest-grossing movie of all time (see: Avatar). The 33-year-old Queens native, born to Dominican and Puerto Rican parents, grew up attending ballet school before making her film debut in the 2000 ballet drama Center Stage. After a string of supporting roles in films like Crossroads opposite Britney Spears, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal, Saldana got her big break starring as the female lead, Starfleet Officer Nyota Uhura, in J. J. Abrams’s 2009 blockbuster Star Trek. That same year she starred as Neytiri, a female Na’vi, in James Cameron’s sci-fi spectacle Avatar. In her latest film, Colombiana, Saldana plays Cataleya … [Read more...] about Zoe Saldana talks ‘Colombiana,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Avatar,’ Britney Spears & Motherhood