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Author and academic Preti Taneja has won the 2022 Gordon Burn prize for her “unflinching work of narrative non-fiction”, Aftermath.The winning title is about the London Bridge stabbing in 2019, when 28-year-old terrorist Usman Khan attacked five people, two fatally. Taneja realised shortly afterwards that she had known Khan – he had been a student in a creative writing class she had taught two years earlier in HMP Whitemoor, where he was incarcerated at the time. In fact, the event at Fishmongers’ Hall during which the…

An alternative way for dealing with high cardinalityEmpty space is an opportunity. Photo by Nasa on UnsplashYou don’t have to be involved in data science long before hearing about the algorithm XGBoost, including all the Kaggle competitions it has been used in, with great success. There is also no shortage of great tutorials online (including on Towards Data Science) on how to get started using this algorithm. However, there is an amazing feature of XGBoost that is often overlooked and is sadly missing from most…

Image: UniversalMichael Giacchino says he’s somehow found time to score Marvel’s Werewolf by Night. Tiffany returns in new Chucky season 2 pictures. Plus, what’s coming on Star Trek: Lower Decks and Rick and Morty. Spoilers now!Haunted MansionAccording to Empire, both Winona Ryder and Dan Levy are scheduled to make cameo appearances in Disney’s Haunted Mansion.Halloween EndsIn conversation with Total Film (via Games Radar), David Gordon Green confirmed Halloween Ends will not explore where Michael Myers has been hiding…

This Labor Day weekend a few theaters are going retro, flashing back to cinematic treasures and guilty pleasures that we never grow tired of re-watching. Here’s how you can revisit some goodies. Wanna hit the virtual beach this weekend? Proceed with caution and don’t listen to anything that sleazy, sideburned bozo of an Amity Island mayor advises about the oceans being free of sharks. That’s right, landlubbers, Steven Spielberg’s ultimate shark movie “Jaws” chomps its way back into theaters, more than 40 years after that…

OceanLight, the Chinese exascale supercomputer that has defied listing in the Top500, has once again surged to prominence as a finalist in the Gordon Bell Prize. A yearly award in recognition for "outstanding achievement in high-performance computing," the Gordon bell Prize awards a $10,000 fund to the winner, picked from a group of five finalists. OceanLight, operated by the University of Science and Technology of China, once again races neck and neck with crowning jewels of Western supercomputing achievement such as…

Books by David Whitehouse, Preti Taneja and Graeme Macrae Burnet are on the shortlist for this year’s Gordon Burn prize.The award is for the year’s “boldest and most innovative” books, and is open to fiction and nonfiction.Also making the shortlist of five – chosen by a judging panel chaired by writer Denise Mina – are Margo Jefferson and Lea Ypi. The shortlist includes memoir, creative nonfiction, true crime and fiction in works the prize described as “expansive in form and ambition”, and which “unflinchingly explore…

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Images)While all was quiet on DC’s San Diego Comic-Con front in regards to The Batman sequel and its Penguin series spin-off, star Colin Farrell recently told Entertainment Weekly he expects shooting to start on his straight-to-order series early next year. Unsurprisingly, he’d also be very open to returning to the role, should Matt Reeves ring him up for The Batman part two.“Oh my god, you kidding me?!” Farrell enthused. “It’s so much fun, are you joking me? I’ve been around the block…

Global semiconductor revenue is projected to slow down to 7.4% this year, down from 2021 growth of 26.3%, while chip sales from PCs are likely to decline 5.4%, according to Gartner.PC shipments are set to decline by 13.1% this year after recording growth in 2020 and 2021.Semiconductor revenue from smartphones is on pace to slow to 3.1% growth, compared to 24.5% growth in 2021."Although chip shortages are abating, the global semiconductor market is entering a period of weakness, which will persist through 2023 when…

IT research firm Gartner said that it expects global semiconductor sales growth to slow down in 2022 and fall 2.5 percent next year, hurt by weak sales of mobile phones and personal computers. Rising inflation and higher energy and fuel costs are putting pressure on consumer disposable income, affecting spending on electronic products such as PCs and smartphones, the research firm said. It forecast global semiconductor revenue to grow 7.4 percent in 2022 to $639.2 billion, down from its previous view of 13.6 percent…

Screenshot: HBO MaxIt feels like it’s been ages since the excellent Harley Quinn animated series graced our TV screens. In reality, it’s only been a bit over two years since the season two finale aired, but the fact that it ended with Harley and her BFF finally admitting their romantic feelings for each other and sharing a kiss has made it rather hard to wait for DC’s (super)power couple to return. So thank goodness Harley’s finally on her way back to TV, and there’s a new trailer promising romance, chaos, and Clayface…