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5 charts show who has the best and worst commutes in New York City

New Yorkers, famously, are walking here. But just about 25% of them are driving too.Commuting undergirds New York’s economy, and shapes the daily lives of its workers. New York’s robust public transit system carries around six million passengers daily, and around 1.6 million people drive into Manhattan’s Central Business District…

Vintage photos show what it was like to eat at McDonald’s in the 1980s

By the 1980s, McDonald’s had already become a well-established fast-food chain with a well-known menu and distinctive branding.Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald’s franchise location in Des Plaines, Illinois, on April 15, 1955. That year, he also founded McDonald’s System, Inc., which would become the McDonald’s Corporation we know today. By 1958, McDonald’s…

Musk pitched naming OpenAI ‘Freemind’ in jab at Google, emails show

Newly-revealed courtroom exhibits in the blockbuster case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman show how OpenAI nearly ended up with a different name — one intended as a jab at an AI rival. Loading audio narration… Musk and Altman, along with others, founded OpenAI in December 2015 as a nonprofit…