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Union Square Hospitality Group’s Ci Siamo to Open Rick Bayless makes his New York debut; a rotating cast of chefs work from a former Greenpoint laundromat; and more restaurant news. The chef Hillary Sterling will be in the kitchen at Ci Siamo.Credit...Sasha Maslov for The New York Times Headliner Ci Siamo This major restaurant from Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group is set to open in Manhattan West, the multiblock Brookfield Properties development opposite Hudson Yards, in September. It will be the group’s first new restaurant in New York City since Manhatta in 201...

Em Vietnamese Bistro is finally here. After close to two years of delays, Ly Nguyen and Patrick Lin’s sequel to their hit Bensonhurst restaurant opens this week in Dumbo. The restaurant at 57 Front Street, near York Street, has been in the works since the couple signed a lease on the space in July 2019 and will debut with a soft opening on May 19. Nguyen and Lin began planning the sequel restaurant shortly after opening Em Vietnamese Kitchen, the acclaimed noodle and pho shop they brought to Bensonhurst in 2018. At the couple’s first restaurant, Nguyen developed a following for her comfor...

Because technological development moves so quickly, it often outpaces changes in law and ethical norms that might be deemed necessary later. Sometimes, in the interim, people get hurt. At other times, preventive regulations may be overreactions, unnecessary to prevent harms and ultimately a drag on science and innovation. Eventually, it seems, some balance is achieved, and a nascent scientific field or technology is allowed to progress mostly according to market forces. Our technologies are certainly changing us and our planet. Largely, they have expanded our life spans and improved our well-...

The state of the art in robotics and artificial intelligence continues to advance at an accelerating clip, surprising experts and futurists. Increasingly complex and in telligent machines are changing the texture of human life as they are insinuated into more spheres of activity, from manufacturing to law enforcement to stock trading. Military applications have historically been one of the greatest drivers of innovation. We can trace the history of warfighting—and especially its recent history—as a long arc of removing the warfighter more and more from harm’s way. 1 The so-called “dro...

Chinese Doctor’s Suicide Casts Light on Forced Organ Harvesting in China Commentary Dr. Zang Yunjin, a liver transplant specialist in China, committed suicide in the early hours of Feb. 26, a death that may have been related to his alleged involvement with the mass harvesting of organs from Falun Gong adherents. Zang, the director of the Institute of Organ Donation and Transplantation of Qingdao University Medical School, and director of the Organ Transplantation Center of Qingdao University Hospital, jumped off a building, according to sources cited in an article published on Feb. 27 by ...