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Installation view of “Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum,” 2017, at the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York. NICHOLAS KNIGHT/©THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM, NY AND ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS) H ow might the work of a contemporary artist trained in industrial design match up with a seminal mid-century sculptor trained under Brancusi? Reactions to that question—and many more—are on display in “Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at the Noguchi Museum” in Queens, New York. “Both of them are interested in creating doubt rather than easy solutions,” Dakin Hart, the Noguchi Museum’s senior curator, said of Stadler and the devotional museum’s namesake, Isamu Noguchi. “They really think the objects that surround them should be subject to questioning and ought to be part of the flow of change rather than resisting change.” The process of pairing work by the late Noguchi and the Austria-born, Paris-based Stadler “was something of a blind date,” Har

Just a day after a new cumulative update started rolling out to  Windows 10  Creators Update PCs, Microsoft is rolling another out to anyone still running the Anniversary Update (version 1607). This cumulative update packs a single fix and ticks the build number up to version 14393.1230. Here's a look at  what's new  in KB4023680: Addressed issue where End User Defined Characters (EUDC) may not be visible in some applications. Sure, it's not the most exciting update in the world, but it's  something . If you're still running the Anniversary Update on your PC, you should be able to grab this latest cumulative update via Windows Update now.

Lyft Lyft is rolling out black car service, under the name Lyft Lux and Lux SUV, starting today in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Jose. The service will directly compete with Uber Black, which offers riders the option of requesting a ride in a luxury, black vehicle with leather or leather-like seats. This could include a BMW 5 Series, a Cadillac Escalade, or a Lincoln Navigator, for example. The only differentiator between Lux and Lux SUV is that SUV vehicles can fit at least six passengers. The company gave drivers a heads up on this service, and even listed the launch cities on its  Help page , but didn’t actually begin rolling Lux out until today. Last year, it introduced  Lyft Premier  to compete with Uber Select. Both ride-sharing services offer pick-ups in luxury cars (that aren’t necessarily painted black) for a higher fee. Drivers who own these cars can drive both regular and luxury passengers. With the launch of both of these higher-end se

    Man, Mark Zuckerberg is having a hell of a day. Earlier this morning, just before he was scheduled to deliver Harvard University’s commencement speech, his alma mater’s  student newspaper website was hacked  to elaborately troll the Facebook CEO. And while that got fixed by the time Zuck walked on stage, he’s now facing yet another technical difficulty: utter gibberish for captions. Of course Zuck’s speech was going to be live streamed on his own platform, but wow, those of us watching from an office setting are getting a heck of a treat. View image on Twitter  Follow Mike Murphy   ✔ @mcwm Facebook’s auto-caption function is… not great 7:29 PM - 25 May 2017     60 60 Retweets     221 221 likes Twitter Ads info & Privacy Maybe a one-off goof? Nay. I, too, long for a sense of purposos. Keep rauling, rauling, rauling. Wee! You get the point. We’ve reached out to Facebook and a representative told us tha

A LEG TO STAND ON   Scientists have tackled the question of how a biggish bird can balance, and apparently nap, on just one skinny leg. CLINT /ISTOCKPHOTO A question flamingo researchers get asked all the time — why the birds stand on one leg — may need rethinking. The bigger puzzle may be why flamingos bother standing on two. Balance aids built into the birds’ basic anatomy  allow for a one-legged stance that demands little muscular effort , tests find. This stance is so exquisitely stable that a bird sways less to keep itself upright when it appears to be dozing than when it’s alert with eyes open, two Atlanta neuromechanists report May 24 in  Biology Letters . “Most of us aren’t aware that we’re moving around all the time,” says Lena Ting of Emory University, who measures what’s called postural sway in standing people as well as in animals. Just keeping the human body vertical demands constant sensing and muscular correction for wavering. 

Fabio Fognini was delighted after beating world No 1 Andy Murray in straight sets World No 1 Andy Murray was unable to cope with the unstoppable force of Fabio Fognini in front of a fervent atmosphere at the Foro Italico in Rome as his title defence ended with a whimper. Home-favourite Fognini was hoping to capitalise on the mediocre form of Britain's Murray on home soil, and did so with an inspirational 6-2 6-4 win. "I'm really happy about my performance. I played really good tennis against Andy, but of course it's difficult because he's number one in the world and I was 6-2 5-1 up but I was thinking the match might go on because you never know with him," Fognini, who struck 23 forehand winners during the victory,  told Sky Sports . "Andy never stops running and he is the best defender in the world, so I'm really happy to beat him in Rome. "Finally I won a good match because I've not always played my best match here in Rome