OnePlus unveiled its current flagship, the OnePlus 15, in October last year. Although the launch of its successor is still some time away, leaks have already begun to surface online. The latest leak hints at the phone’s battery capacity. The OnePlus 16 will house a large 9,000mAh battery, according to a tipster. Notably, its predecessor, the 15, comes with a...
In Donald Westlake’s 1997 horror novel ‘The Ax’, a recently laid-off manager at a paper company decides to thin out the competition in the job pool by tracking down and taking out his potential competitors as he vies for a new job. Westlake’s book was written amid the corporate redundancies of ’90s America; it struck a chord with the Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, who...
Without the glossy production values that come with screening in a multiplex, film clubs like Speed and Strike sell themselves on their ability to curate interesting lineups of films. “I try to bring in a theme”, Phoebe says, “whether that be ideological, like in our first season, ‘Rotten Britain’, or something more formal, like the ‘Time and Meditation’ series that focused on...
Sequoia Capital is reportedly joining a blockbuster funding round for Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, according to the Financial Times. It’s a move sure to turn heads in Silicon Valley. Why? Because venture capital firms have historically avoided backing competing companies in the same sector, preferring to place their bets on a single winner. Yet here’s Sequoia, already invested...
If you’ve been following the billionaire exodus from California with some confusion, here’s what’s actually driving the nervousness: it’s not the 5% rate. As highlighted Friday in the New York Post, the proposed wealth tax would hit founders on their voting shares rather than the actual equity they own. Take Larry Page, who about 3% of Google but controls roughly...
Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh tell TechCrunch. Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come. The story includes bootstrapping their way to over $1...
Despite having a strong healthcare system, vaccine hesitancy and mixed messages from government have curtailed some immunization efforts.Credit: Carl Court/GettyWhen US officials announced earlier this month that they were shrinking the country’s roster of recommended childhood immunizations, physicians and scientists alike wondered what to expect. How much would infectious disease rates rise? Who would be most affected? Half a world...
For over two weeks, demonstrations rocked Iran and, according to a human rights group, more than 2,600 protesters have been killed. Protesters have been met with deadly force by authorities, masked by a near total shutdown of the internet and communication services. Reporting from the Iranian-Armenian border, the BBC's Middle East correspondent, Hugo Bachega, described the "anger and frustration" of...
A raccoon found in Hopewell has tested positive for rabies, according to Virginia health officials. Source link...
(RNS) — Nearly six decades ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City and delivered a most controversial sermon, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” In that historic address, he named the “giant triplets” of racism, extreme materialism and militarism as intertwined evils corroding the soul of our nation....
