In the game of poker, the ultimate question is whether at the end of the day one should twist or stick. The same logic applies to narrative cinema – should the screenwriter pull the rug out from under the audience’s feet and force them to question everything they’ve seen prior to that moment, or should they stay the course and...
Change was in the air at Aardman Animation in the early 2000s. After decades of making a name for themselves through animated ads and celebrated shorts, it was only natural for the studio to get bigger. “I personally think of the Aardman story as being very linear,” says co-founder Peter Lord, talking to Little White Lies over Zoom. “That’s my optimistic...
IntrCity SmartBus, a tech-enabled intercity bus platform in India, has raised $30 million in funding to expand its network across smaller cities and towns in the South Asian nation. The all-equity Series D round, led by A91 Partners, values the Noida-based startup at $140 million post-money. Intercity travel is accelerating in India as more people migrate from smaller towns to...
On Monday, researchers at cybersecurity giant Kaspersky published a report identifying a new spyware called Dante that they say targeted Windows victims in Russia and neighboring Belarus. The researchers said the Dante spyware is made by Memento Labs, a Milan-based surveillance tech maker that was formed in 2019 after a new owner acquired and took over early spyware maker Hacking...
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Sequoia managing partner Roelof Botha argued that the venture industry isn’t an asset class, and that throwing more money into Silicon Valley doesn’t lead to better companies. “Investing in venture is a return-free risk,” Botha said during an interview on TechCrunch’s Disrupt’s main stage on Monday. “Anybody who’s studied the capital asset pricing model understands the...
Attention has been focused on avian influenza virus H5N1 in the past few years, but scientists are concerned about the spread of other bird viruses.Credit: Ralf Hirschberger/AFP via GettyA bird flu virus that has often been ignored because it mostly causes minor disease in birds has the potential to cause a human pandemic, says a team that has tracked how...
Jamaica is bracing for the strongest storm of the year, with US meteorologists warning of "catastrophic and life-threatening winds, flooding, and storm surge".With wind speeds of up to 175mph (282km/h), Hurricane Melissa is a category five storm - the maximum strength. It is expected to make landfall on the Caribbean island in the early hours of Tuesday.The storm has already...
HOPEWELL, Va. (WRIC) -- The trial for one of three men charged in connection with an 8-year-old's death that was supposed to start Monday, Oct. 27, was rescheduled to February after a key witness skipped out on court. That witness is Davone James-Crockett, who’s now been charged with failure to appear. Court officials said he was notified he needed to appear....
(RNS) — Jesus tells us in the Gospel of Matthew, “the poor will always be with you.” So far, sadly, he has proven to be correct. In every era, there have been marginalized people who are hungry, thirsty, homeless and in need of clothing. As Pope Leo XIV indicated in “Dilexi te,” his Oct. 4 apostolic exhortation, Christians have an...
For years, many scientists have warned that Earth is undergoing another mass extinction, with species disappearing faster than ever before. These warnings often rely on projecting extinction data from the past 500 years into the future, assuming that current rates are accelerating dramatically. However, new research from Kristen Saban and John Wiens of the University of Arizona's Department of Ecology...
