Movie

Falling Into Place review – Sally Rooney-core for the big screen

Falling Into Place review – Sally Rooney-core for the big screen About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews...

Music

The Encampments review – inspiring portrait of collective action

The Encampments review – inspiring portrait of collective action About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a...

TECH

North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment

Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars, according to data from investment tracker PitchBook. Between February and May of this year, VCs poured $69.7 billion into North America-based AI and machine learning startups across 1,528 deals. That’s compared with $6.4 billion that...

TECH

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models

Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models. Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan said in a post on X that Anthropic gave Windsurf little notice for this change, and the startup now has to find other third-party compute providers...

TECH

Valla raises $2.7M to make legal recourse more accessible to employees

After a while, Danae Shell got tired of hearing the same story over and over again.  “Something bad would happen to someone at work, and the story always ended the same way,” she told TechCrunch. “They just left, because doing anything else was incredibly complex and expensive.”  One doesn’t need to look far to notice that for many people, seeking...

Nature

Cancer-fighting CAR T cells show promising results for hard-to-treat tumours

T cells (blue) attack a prostate cancer cell (pink) in this scanning electron micrograph image.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo LibraryA clinical trial using engineered immune cells to hunt cancer cells has reported impressive results for solid tumours, a type of cancer that is difficult to treat. Compared with standard treatments, the immunotherapy lengthened survival of people with cancer1.The phase II clinical...

News

UN calls for investigation into killings near Gaza aid site

AFPThe US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has set up four aid distribution centre in southern and central GazaThe UN secretary-general has called for an independent investigation into the killing of Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza on Sunday, amid disputed reports that Israeli forces had opened fire.Witnesses reported being shot at while waiting for food from the centre in...

Religion

Faith leaders, health care advocates arrested while protesting GOP budget bill in Capitol

WASHINGTON (RNS) — A group of clergy, faith-based protesters and disability advocates were once again arrested in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Monday (June 2) while praying against the Republican-led federal budget bill, including a wheelchair user who said potential cuts to health care programs would imperil her future. Suvya Carroll, a disability rights advocate who was born with cerebral...

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