[unable to retrieve full-text content]Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future  The New Yorker Source link

On Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of legendary ski filmmaker Warren Miller’s death at 93, the company that acquired his namesake film studio made a startling announcement: For the first time in 74 years, there would not be an annual film of new skiing and snowboarding footage.  Outdoors media juggernaut Outside Inc., formerly Pocket Outdoor Media, announced that the 2023–24 Warren Miller Film Tour would instead feature a film made of re-edited archival footage from years past. The announcement from Outside, which acquired Warren Miller Entertainment in June 2020 when the former was still named Pocket, came shortly after an Instagram post from Chris Patterson, the longtime director of the annual film. He announced that for the first time in decades, he and his crew… Source link

News Steve Sanderson Wows Web-Devs with Peek at ‘Blazor United’ for .NET 8 “We’ve started some experiments to combine the advantages of Razor Pages, Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly all into one thing.” Steve Sanderson has done it again, adding yet more functionality to the groundbreaking Blazor project, which he created. This time it’s combining the Single Page Applications (SPA) tech of Blazor with plain HTML, which in the ASP.NET Core camp comes from Razor Pages, MVC and CSHTML files. Or, in Sanderson’s own words: “We’ve started some experiments to combine the advantages of Razor Pages, Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly all into one thing, so this would be a way for Blazor… Source link

Once we get rid of gas, I’m worried that the backyard barbie will be under threat. How will men socialise and talk about footy? Is the environmental benefit sufficient to outweigh the threat to Aussie blokehood?E.F., South Yarra, Vic Credit:Drew Aitken A: Years ago, I wrote a newspaper story called “Tongmaster” about this exact phenomenon. How Aussie men are compelled to gather around backyard barbecues, drawn there like moths to a flame – huge, hairy moths wearing oversized cargo shorts with too many pockets and undersized merch T-shirts from a rock concert they saw in the 2000s. Loading Once at the barbecue, these men will sip beers and discuss blokey stuff: sport, music, politics and, most of all, whether the sausages should be poked with holes or whether they cook better… Source link

Once we get rid of gas, I’m worried that the backyard barbie will be under threat. How will men socialise and talk about footy? Is the environmental benefit sufficient to outweigh the threat to Aussie blokehood?E.F., South Yarra, Vic Credit:Drew Aitken A: Years ago, I wrote a newspaper story called “Tongmaster” about this exact phenomenon. How Aussie men are compelled to gather around backyard barbecues, drawn there like moths to a flame – huge, hairy moths wearing oversized cargo shorts with too many pockets and undersized merch T-shirts from a rock concert they saw in the 2000s. Loading Once at the barbecue, these men will sip beers and discuss blokey stuff: sport, music, politics and, most of all, whether the sausages should be poked with holes or whether they cook better… Source link

Once we get rid of gas, I’m worried that the backyard barbie will be under threat. How will men socialise and talk about footy? Is the environmental benefit sufficient to outweigh the threat to Aussie blokehood?E.F., South Yarra, Vic Credit:Drew Aitken A: Years ago, I wrote a newspaper story called “Tongmaster” about this exact phenomenon. How Aussie men are compelled to gather around backyard barbecues, drawn there like moths to a flame – huge, hairy moths wearing oversized cargo shorts with too many pockets and undersized merch T-shirts from a rock concert they saw in the 2000s. Loading Once at the barbecue, these men will sip beers and discuss blokey stuff: sport, music, politics and, most of all, whether the sausages should be poked with holes or whether they cook better… Source link

In 2019 nobody knew what was in store. But in the subsequent mayhem, all the tech companies made hay while the lockdown sun shined. Everyone had to upgrade and buy new tech solutions and Big Tech saw record profits and record valuations during 2020-21. While a good number of companies were facing losses and shutdowns, tech boomed. 2022 saw course correction with that initial demand coming down and such growth becoming unsustainable. Profits shrunk (though they are still there), demand went down, and valuations crashed. While valuations going down by 10-20% do happen, what about 50%+? Just ask Tesla and Meta. The layoffs were inevitable and even those figures broke records. The India IT services had problems of a different kind. The growth story that began in the 2000s… Source link

CNN remembers how in 2016 Ruja Ignatova “touted her company, OneCoin, as a lucrative rival to Bitcoin in the growing cryptocurrency market.” As OneCoin’s co-founder, Ignatova told one audience in 2016 that “In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin anymore. “Sixteen months later, Ignatova boarded a plane in Sofia, Bulgaria, and vanished. She hasn’t been seen since.” Authorities say OneCoin was a pyramid scheme that defrauded people out of more than $4 billion as Ignatova convinced investors in the US and around the globe to throw fistfuls of cash at her company. Federal prosecutors describe OneCoin as one of the largest international fraud schemes ever perpetrated. She is now one of the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives, alongside accused gang leaders and murderers,… Source link

1 What three-letter word describes a shallow layer of cloud at or near ground level? 2 Which alcoholic drink is a traditional symbol of the blood shed by Christ? 3 In 1956, which tea brand began using the “Tipps family” of anthropomorphic chimpanzees in their TV ads? 4 Myocarditis is inflammation of the muscle of which organ? 5 Which unit, used to measure sound intensity, is abbreviated “dB”? 6 Maia (Bowness-on-Solway), Banna (Birdoswald) and Aesica (Great Chesters) were forts on which Roman wall? 7 In a story by Washington Irving, which Dutch-American farmer sleeps in the Catskill Mountains for 20 years? 8 In 2003, which North African country formally accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing? 9 Which South American country’s capital city is named after Source link