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From its thunderous score, which sounds at times like someone dismantling an orchestra with a mallet, to the huge, intimidating, blood-red lettering of the intertitles, to the gut punch of an opening scene: violence, or the threat of it, lurks in every frame of Felipe Gálvez Haberle’s assured debut.Opening in 1901 in the sprawling wilderness of Tierra del Fuego, Chile, this Spanish- and English-language film is partly based on true events – including multiple massacres of the indigenous Selk’nam people by white settlers –…

A car drives past the entrance to the Toyota Motor Manufacturing plant is seen in Georgetown, Ky., Jan. 27, 2010. Toyota says it will invest $1.3 billion at its huge factory complex in Georgetown, in part so it can build an all-new three-row electric SUV to be sold in the U.S. The company says the money will help with future electric vehicle production, including the addition of a line to assemble battery cells into packs for other EVs. But it won’t…

It's happened to pretty much all of us. Unless you're very organized or hyper attentive to your phone's battery life, your device will have died at least at one point while you're away from home or the office. Rather than scrambling to borrow a charging cable or get a top-up from someone else's device, you can nip this problem in the bud by making sure you have a battery pack on hand. Anker is currently running a . One of its products, the , has dropped to a record low of $31.49 in this sale. It typically costs $45.…

Drive down any of the the long, rutted back roads of Anza, a dusty Riverside County community, and it won’t take long before you feel like you’ve fallen off the grid.Telephone poles disappear. Street signs and lights are nowhere to be seen. And ramshackle houses and fences hide behind thickets of weather-beaten manzanita and chaparral.If you’re quiet, you’ll hear the wind roll across the valley, or maybe the bell-like clink of a sage sparrow in a nearby bush. But if you make a sound, one, two, three or more barking,…

As Aptera Motors looks to reach its long-sought scaled solar EV production milestone, it has secured a tier-1 battery supplier and a hefty investment from Korean manufacturer CTNS. Solar EV startup Aptera Motors hit us with an encouraging progress update as we shut the book on 2023 and look toward 2024, the year we may finally see scaled production of the company’s solar EV by the same name. Since the startup debuted in its second iteration years ago, we’ve shared its progress nearly every step…

Huawei has announced several new mid-range smartphones as part of its Nova 12 lineup. The Huawei Nova 12, Nova 12 Pro, and Nova 12 Ultra launched. The launch happened in China, and one of those phones is particularly interesting. The device in question is the Huawei Nova 12 Pro, and it packs a brand new Kirin chip. The Huawei Nova 12 Pro has a brand new Kirin 8000 processor The Huawei Nova 12 Pro launched with the Kirin 8000 processor. Truth be said, Huawei did not specifically mention that chip, but someone got ahold of…

Despite its compactness, Phi-2 showcased "state-of-the-art performance" among language models with less than 13 billion parameters, and it even outperformed models up to 25 times larger on complex benchmarks, according to Microsoft. Also: Two breakthroughs made 2023 tech's most innovative year in over a decadePhi-2 outperformed models -- including Meta's Llama-2, Mistral, and even Google's Gemini Nano 2, which is the smallest version of Google's most capable LLM, Gemini -- on several different benchmarks, as seen…

Music-creation software company Output that generates free sample packs based on text prompts. These packs are royalty-free and include 30 samples that can be used in the digital audio workstation (DAW) of your choice, including Logic Pro, Ableton, Pro Tools and others.The algorithm mixes and resynthesizes pre-existing samples to create new sounds that match the text prompt. This was developed to help music-makers move quickly, so they aren’t slowed down by hunting for that perfect sample to match the vibe of the track.…

You can pick up Blink 4 security cameras for up to 53 percent off, via Amazon. The most notable deal here both the fourth-gen Blink Outdoor camera and the Mini indoor camera. That comes out to $72, a discount of 53 percent or a whopping $83 slashed from the MSRP of $155.BlinkThe Blink Outdoor 4 is the crown jewel in the company’s lineup. There’s a reason, after all, why it made our list of the The camera may have “outdoor” right in the name, but this is a fantastic option for both indoor and outdoor use. They run on AA…

There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on. In 2021, battery manufacturing in the United States totaled approximately 55 gigawatt-hours’ worth of cells, or roughly enough batteries to produce 700,000 EVs. By 2030, that production is expected to top 1,000GWh, growing by nearly a factor of 20. Billions of dollars in incentives such as the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law have spurred the creation of a so-called Battery Belt across the southeastern US, all fuel to fire an anticipated…