Movie

Christmas, Again review – a perfectly-rounded Yuletide bauble

This indie gem from 2014 comes to UK cinemas for the first time, and it’s an example of elite Holiday season cinema. Hangdog Noel (Kentucker Audley), in his woolen beanie and plaid workshirt, works as a house-maker most of the year round, but he picks up a few extra bucks during the festive period by selling Christmas trees in a...

Music

Lurker review – an excellent showcase for…

In his controversial but undeniably significant smash hit ​‘Stan’, Eminem relayed the story of an obsessive fan who would do anything to get the attention of his idol. His deteriorating mental health – conveyed through a series of increasingly worrying letters to Eminem – eventually led him to threats, then acts, of violence, and even some 20 years later the impact of...

TECH

CoreWeave CEO defends AI circular deals as ‘working together’

It’s been quite the year for CoreWeave. In March, the AI cloud infrastructure provider went public in one of the biggest and most anticipated IPOs of the year that didn’t live up to its hype. Another setback took place in October, when a planned acquisition of the cloud provider’s business partner, Core Scientific, faltered due to skepticism from the acquisition...

TECH

FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman

A stalkerware maker who was banned from the surveillance industry after a data breach that exposed the personal information of its customers, as well as the people they were spying on, will not be able to go back to selling the invasive software, according the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The FTC denied a request to cancel that ban made by...

Nature

This science sleuth revealed a retraction crisis at Indian universities

Achal Agrawal had just finished giving a lecture when an enthusiastic undergraduate student approached him with an idea for a research project. Agrawal was delighted, until the student described how he had previously used software to paraphrase published work.Agrawal explained that doing so was considered plagiarism — a serious violation of research integrity — but the student insisted that it...

News

Major earthquake strikes Japan’s north-east coast

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake has hit north-eastern Japan, with reports thousands have been ordered to evacuate their homes.The quake occurred at 23:15 (14:15 GMT) at a depth of 50km (31 miles), about 80km off the coast of the Aomori region, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. It prompted tsunami warnings which have now been lifted, while waves of 70cm (27in) were...

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