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Robert Frost fans will recognise the title of this psychological horror. Taken from the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, the relevant lines run thusly: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles before I go to sleep.” This is a neat, if oblique, way of describing writer-director Teresa Sutherland’s debut film, which sees a newly minted park ranger head into the wilderness, after the disappearance of a young woman, to confront shadowy forces…

What happens in the school staffroom? What do the teachers talk about? As a child I remember standing just outside the door of the staffroom, waiting to carry the corrected notebooks for the class as some of the other teachers who had an off period, sat by themselves, or had a cup of tea. In Germany's Oscar nominee for Best International Film, The Teacher's Lounge, the same curiosity opens up a world of contradictions, accusations and power dynamics. Come unprepaded for İlker Çatak's nail-bitingly intense drama, and…

It’s 1843, and along with hundreds of his fellow ministers, Reverend John Ferguson has broken away from the Church of Scotland to form a new denomination. His zeal is dented only by the worldly question of how he and his wife, Mary, are to survive without his stipend, which is why he agrees to sail to a tiny island halfway to Norway. Dispatched with scanty provisions and a pistol, he must inform its lone inhabitant, a crofter named Ivar, that he’s to be evicted as part of the Highland Clearances.So begins Carys Davies’s…

Dynamic Thesis Topics Propelling Data Science into 2024’s Technological Frontier As the realm of data science continues to evolve, students seeking to make their mark in this dynamic field are confronted with the challenge of selecting thesis topics that are not only relevant but also hold the promise of contributing significantly to the discipline. In 2024, the landscape of data science is marked by a fusion of emerging technologies, ethical considerations, and real-world applications. In this article, we…

In 2018, film-makers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine struck gold – or, rather, tuned into it – when they attended a weeklong Texas program in which 1,000 teenage boys elect and run a mock state government. Their subsequent film, Boys State, bottled the potential and peril of the future – the idealism and ambition of youth, the capacity to change one’s mind, the allure of power, the corrosive codes of masculinity – into two hours at once terrifying and hopeful, winning the 2020 Sundance documentary grand jury prize.Now the…

Credit: Tim Gouw/Pexels Unemployed people often need not only a financial safety net but also a stimulus to look for work. Ph.D. candidate Heike Vethaak researched the effects of incentives used by benefit agencies, such as compelling people to widen their job search. And what happens when the application process is unintentionally long? "The effects are often contradictory." …

But back to Intel's Core Ultra chip. Our review unit, which was equipped with a Core Ultra 7 155H, 32GB of RAM and Intel Arc graphics, delivered some healthy gains over ultraportables running Intel's 13th-gen chips. It scored 1,000 points higher in PCMark 10 compared to the ZenBook S 13 running a Core i7-1355U, and its Arc graphics were almost twice as fast as the S 13's Intel Xe graphics in the 3DMark Wildlife Extreme benchmark. None Geekbench 6 CPU PCMark 10 Cinebench R23 3DMark Wildlife Extreme ASUS…

sjvn/ZDNETMany people think we already have artificial general intelligence (AGI), AI programs that can do anything a person can. They're wrong. But, starting a few months ago, OpenAI enabled developers to create customized versions of ChatGPT that could be experts on specific topics. Those do work. Now OpenAI is enabling you to buy these custom GPTs. In addition, OpenAI has just rolled out ChatGPT Team, which gives you a dedicated collaborative team workspace.Also: Alexa just got three new generative AI skills -…

The woman who might be future pirate Crocodile with a young Shanks in the backImage: NetflixLitman also gave props to One Piece’s creator. “This is to the credit of Oda, these were the notes that he wanted to make sure really, really landed. We had a screening for the premiere of the pilot at the Santa Monica pier. I was sitting there in the back with some of my coworkers, and we were watching with the fans,” he said. “And when those moments hit, especially the Easter eggs, the fans just cheered—they were just…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press Andrew Scott plays a writer trying to write something about his dead parents in Andrew Haigh’s transcendent drama “All of Us Strangers.” His parents’ death is not recent – they died when he was 12. Not that one ever really gets over that kind of loss. But we meet Adam at a moment where he is not just thinking about them but visiting them in his childhood home, where they are preparing for Christmas. Just in case it wasn’t sad enough already. “All of Us Strangers” will probably make you…