Hollywood veterans Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Peter Murrieta are optimistic that "a lot is possible" in the future as Hollywood and the entertainment industry as a whole expands for stories and diverse perspectives at every level. Murrieta and Bone Isaacs performed at Thursday's event to announce the recent opening of Arizona State University's Sidney Poitier … Read more
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Optimized architecture enhances exascale environments Frontier features 3rd generation AMD EPYC CPUs optimized for high-performance computing and AI and the AMD Instinct MI250X accelerator, both specifically designed for exascale environments. According to Malaya, AMD's researchers and engineers have built on the company's more than 50-year history of developing processors with outstanding performance. They have added … Read more
Students at the University of British Columbia have trained computers to read news articles about landslides on Reddit to improve predictions of when and where these natural disasters will occur in order to expand NASA's database. For their final project, Badr Jaidi and the Social Landslides team trained computers to automatically extract useful information from … Read more
As with any adaptation of a previous work, the Netflix series Sandman has made some tweaks to the original stories by Neil Gaiman. Among them, mystery detective John Constantine was cast as Joanna Constantine, and Dr. Gina Colman played dual roles as her and her eponymous predecessor in the 18th century. Speaking of Constantine, it … Read more
Almost every sport has a cheating scandal. At one time or another, a person or group of people tried (and sometimes succeeded) to beat the system and outdo others. Sometimes for the money, sometimes for the fame, but one thing is always certain: it's unfair to those who play by the rules. There are currently … Read more
Fox reality TV boss Rob Wade has been named CEO of Fox Entertainment. Wade, Fox Entertainment's former president of alternative entertainment and specials, took the top spot vacated by Charlie Collier, who left last month to join the Roku network. Wade will report to Lachlan Murdoch, Executive Chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation. RELATED : … Read more
When Palmer Johnson took delivery of the Khalilah carbon fiber motor yacht in 2014, all eyes from passersby were drawn to her gleaming golden James Bond exterior. What viewers didn't know was that three hulls were hidden underwater, which made the 157-foot boat more fuel efficient than similarly sized monohulls. Eight years later, the American … Read more
Greenville Technical College opened a nearly $70 million building dedicated to health, life sciences and education. The dirt mound in the South Pleasantburg Drive parking lot is the proposed centerpiece of the proposed 125,000-square-foot three-story building, according to college president Keith Miller. During the groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 5, college leaders, along with Governor Henry … Read more
Every horror movie is about pain, but only Hellraiser is about sadomachism – electricity and pain, his highest calling. Hellraiser, the 1987 reboot of the franchise that spawned nine sequels (time freezes when you think they're suffering for fun), is a film that captures the outrageous appeal of Clive Barker's 1986 novel. Sacred heart. But … Read more