I’m already growing hoarse in Golden Gate Park as Charli XCX takes the stage at a San Francisco music festival. The crowd starts jumping as a guitar hook hits, and I reluctantly comply, bouncing around on these aging knees as my chunky Puff necklace almost flies off the chain. During a lull in the set,
In “Far From the Trees,” (“Lejos de los árboles”) Meritxell Colell asks viewers to listen before they try to understand. Premiering in Locarno’s international competition, the Spain-Italy-Peru production from Allegra Films follows Adela, a 50-year-old Mexican sound artist who travels from the Peruvian jungle to the Andes recording endangered languages. Accompanied by a guide and
The global memory chip shortage is affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Gurman said the shortage — caused by the demands of chip-hungry AI companies — had already affected Apple’s more niche computers, the Mac mini and Mac Studio. But it seems the company is now struggling to
Norway has opened a new memorial to the 77 victims of the country’s deadliest peacetime terrorist attack, days before its 15th anniversary. On July 22, 2011, neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo and shot dead 69 others, mostly teenagers, at a youth camp on the island of Utoeya. Hundreds
Months after analysts warned that AI-driven demand for memory chips would spread to consumer electronics, India is providing the strongest evidence yet that disruption has arrived, with rising mobile phone prices reshaping the smartphone market. The memory chips in question (RAM and storage components) are the same ones that tech giants need in bulk to
South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix, a rival to Samsung and US-based Micron, plans to sell nearly 17.8 million shares in an initial public offering in the United States, the company said on Monday. If its shares sell well (and there are signs they will), the company could raise around $28 billion, based on