Chief among the “fossils,” in the eyes of some of the soldiers who responded to our requests, is General Oleksandr Syrskyi, the austere 60-year-old commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces. He was hailed a national hero four years ago, following his successful defense of kyiv in the weeks following Russia’s full-scale invasion. But General Syrskyi’s name
New Zealand’s Black Mandala has acquired five horror features for its international sales slate: “The Tree House,” “Babybacks,” “The Driftless,” “Saturnalia” and “The Shug,” spanning psychological horror, survival horror, Midwestern folklore, supernatural giallo and British creature horror. “The Tree House,” directed by Luis Calderón, is a Spanish horror thriller starring Goya Award nominee Sandra Escacena
They’re back! The annual rampage of genre filmmakers, industry and fans through Montreal’s cinemas and social centers has begun, as the Fantasia International Film Festival opens its 30th edition on July 16 with Nicolas Winding Refn receiving the Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award before presenting the Canadian premiere of his sumptuously visceral and neon-titled thrill
The countertop kitchen The composter is a lovely idea. Instead of a smelly bucket full of vegetable scraps and coffee grounds breeding fruit flies on your counter or attracting rats to your backyard, you could simply put it all into a nifty electrical appliance, and at some indeterminate point in the future you’ll have an
Popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Ventures, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch. This round follows an earlier $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton. In total, the company has raised $88 million. Ollama, which launched in 2023, helps developers run open-ended
The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance are not over, but challenges and options are emerging from all directions. ZML, a popular French AI startup backed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released inference performance software that enables running a variety of large open source language models on a variety of chips, including Nvidia,