In an early scene of Edward Yang’s final film Yi Yi, Wu Nien-jen’s jaded businessman NJ and Issey Ogata’s enigmatic game designer Ota sit across from one another in an opulent Chinese restaurant. The programmer, after taking a shot of huangjiu, puts down his chopsticks and pensively asks NJ, “Strange, why are we afraid of the first time?” Though this...
The Monkey review – Theo James goes ape 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 unique...
Every Sunday, NPR host Will Shortz, The New York Times’ crossword puzzle guru, gets to quiz thousands of listeners in a long-running segment called the Sunday Puzzle. While written to be solvable without too much foreknowledge, the brainteasers are usually challenging even for skilled contestants. That’s why some experts think they’re a promising way to test the limits of AI’s...
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Garner, North Carolina voted against unionizing in election results announced today. According to Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), the worker group seeking to form the union, 3,276 ballots were cast in the election, with 25.3% of votes in favor of unionizing and 74.7% against. The results still need to be certified...
New court filings in an AI copyright case against Meta add credence to earlier reports that the company “paused” discussions with book publishers on licensing deals to supply some of its generative AI models with training data. The filings are related to the case Kadrey v. Meta Platforms — one of many such cases winding through the U.S. court system that’s...
Cave-bat fieldwork often looked like a scene from the 1995 film Outbreak.Credit: Warner Bros/AJ Pics/AlamyFor years, I was a bat ecologist, fully immersed in the grind of data collection and publications. My research on cave-bat conservation took me to remote locations, crawling through caves knee-deep in guano, catching bats. Back then, taking photos felt like a distraction from my research.But...
Police bodycam footage shows the moment officers used a capybara costume to carry out a drug raid in Peru's capital Lima.The Escuadron Verde (Green Squad) police group is a specialised unit of the Peruvian National Police who often disguise their agents in fancy dress during festivities such as Valentine's Day, Halloween and Christmas.The head of the unit, Col Pedro Rojas,...
HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- The town of Ashland is getting a new sculpture to welcome guests to the "Center of the Universe." A new sculpture will be unveiled this summer by artist Harry McDaniel called "Gateway to the Universe." According to a Facebook post from the Town of Ashland, the new piece will feature aluminum arcs that sparkle by...
(The Conversation) — James Mangold’s film “A Complete Unknown,” nominated for eight Oscars, captures the elusive, enigmatic quality of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s: the years he emerged as a major musical and cultural phenomenon. A scant few years after he came to New York from Minnesota, and legally changed his name from Robert Allen Zimmerman, Dylan transformed American...
