Crafting a complex portrait of a fraught father-daughter relationship set against a grand dragestil family home in Oslo, Joachim Trier turns to family, ancestral traumas and art to convey all that can’t be articulated through language.LWLies: The house doesn’t feel like home anymore, to any of the characters. How do you treat that subtle transformation when a familiar space becomes alien or hostile?Trier: You...
In 2016, David Bowie’s death shook the world like a supernova – a deliberately-staged explosion that collapsed a lifetime of personas into a single, blinding point of closure. Ten years later, with a glut of posthumous Bowie films in tow, the question is no longer what remains to be said, but how it can still be said. The Final Act treats Bowie less as a subject than as a cosmological...
After 33 years, Bernardo Quintero decided it was time to find the person who changed his life — the anonymous programmer who created a computer virus that had infected his university decades earlier. The virus, called Virus Málaga, was mostly harmless. But the challenge of defeating it sparked Quintero’s passion for cybersecurity, eventually leading him to found VirusTotal, a startup...
Nvidia has struck a non-exclusive licensing agreement with AI chip competitor Groq. As part of the deal, Nvidia will hire Groq founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra, and other employees. CNBC reported that Nvidia is acquiring assets from Groq for $20 billion; Nvidia told TechCrunch that this is not an acquisition of the company and did not comment on the...
Enterprise software company ServiceNow agreed to acquire nine-year-old cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75 billion in cash. The deal is a massive valuation jump for the company. Just last month, Armis raised a $435 million pre-IPO funding round, which valued the company at $6.1 billion. Armis co-founder and CEO Yevgeny Dibrov had told TechCrunch last month that the company aims to...
Vernon Morris (outlined) with alumni from the atmospheric sciences PhD programme he established at Howard University in Washington DC.Credit: Vernon MorrisChangemakersThis Nature Q&A series celebrates individuals who have fought racism in science and who champion inclusion. The series often highlights initiatives that could be applied to other scientific workplaces.When Vernon Morris earned his doctorate in Earth and atmospheric sciences in...
PA MediaAn email sent from an individual named "A", saying they are at Balmoral and asking Ghislaine Maxwell for "inappropriate friends", is among the latest tranche of Epstein files released on Tuesday.The message, sent to Maxwell on 16 August 2001, begins: "I am up here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family." Later in the email, the sender asks:...
Two 18-year-olds are facing attempted murder charges after a shooting that took place in a Hanover County FedEx parking lot in late November. Source link...
(RNS) — Dec. 15 began a most unusual week for the U.S. Catholic Church. A Spanish publication, Religión Digital, reported late on that day that Pope Leo XIV would appoint Bishop Ronald A. Hicks of Joliet, Illinois, to succeed Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan as archbishop of New York. The appointment, the story said, was expected the next day. In fact,...
The Hațeg Basin in Transylvania has long been known around the world for its dinosaur fossils, uncovered at dozens of sites over the last hundred years. Even so, complete dinosaur discoveries are usually uncommon across the region. That pattern changed with the identification of a newly studied site where scientists documented more than 100 vertebrate fossils per square meter, including...
